I did a webinar a couple of weeks ago on Metadata is the New Gold!  It was a great conversation with Brian Cross from Condé Nast, whose team is pushing the boundaries of tagging using crowd sourcing; Mike Green from Avalon, whose comprehensive work in the entertainment space on metadata has left no stone unturned in detailing how critical metadata is; and, hosted by the entertainment industry’s ringmaster, MESA Alliance’s Guy Finley himself.

The conversation covered a lot of ground –

The month of January, named after Janus the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions who is depicted as having two faces so that he may look both forward into the new year as well as back into the one that is past, is a time for reflection and looking forward.

With the introduction of MarkLogic 7 late last year, we find ourselves at a point of transition where we can look back at how we used to structure our information and look forward to 7’s Semantic Web functionality that enables