The Not So Glamorous Road

Graeme Cox

Tuesday 18 September at 11am

Abstract

Metadata sure isn't the glamorous side of the street. Few know anything about it and even fewer care and yet its importance grows with every document created. It will take a person many years to learn to read, work out what is important and store it in their brain for later recall. These functions are the creation metadata. With the volume of content currently at our disposal and the importance of discovering new relationships between disparate information islands, these functions can no longer be performed by humans. This presentation explains metadata, looks at the issues of automatically generating metadata and the contribution of this to long term goals.

Short resume

Graeme Cox is the R&D Director for Intology Limited, a software development company focused on text summarisation, categorisation and feature identification. He is a conference speaker and consultant in the areas of Knowledge Management, Portals and Metadata.

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