Using Taxonomies to Organize Associations

as·so·ci·a·tion  (ə-sō′sē-ā′shən) We use taxonomies and ontologies to organize document collections. But controlled vocabularies (of a sort) are also used to organize the aisles in a grocery or hardware store, clothes in the closet, and your kitchen. In the last two cases, the subject matter expert (SME) is definitely you! If you are more comfortable…

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Express Yourself

Express yourself may have been Madonna’s instructions but it also comes from our parents, grandparents, and especially our teachers. Middle school teachers, apparently, are holding funerals for “boring words”—necessary standards like “said,” “go,” “walk,” “see,” “run”—and eulogizing them with more “sophisticated” words. Splice Today brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Tarting Up the Language.”…

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Artificial Intelligence in the Future

Artificial intelligence programs have not went by the wayside. As a matter of fact they are developing more programs that can mimic, adapt and interpret the complex semantic patterns that were previously unrecognizable to logical, mathematically driven machines. In other words, we’re just getting started folks. DATAVERSITY brought this to our attention in their article, “How…

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Talk About the Weather

The weather professionals have been puffed up and posturing with graphs, maps and all their Doppler mechanisms for several weeks now trying to predict what the winter of 2015-16 will be like. Will there be blizzards like we’ve never seen? Will there be ice storms that shut down cities, airports and interstates? Or will it…

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Access Innovations, Inc. Divests NICEM Information Assets

Access Innovations is proud to announce the sale of its publishing arm, the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) to Graham Carter-Dimmock.  Graham’s expertise and experience includes audio and video production, localization and marketing, database design and electronic publishing.  He has been involved in NICEM project development on several occasions over the years. NICEM…

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SharePoint Fest Coming Soon

At SharePoint Fest – Chicago, you will be able to attend technical classes and workshops that are all taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft engineers and Microsoft MVPs. The topics will cover Enterprise Content Management, Power Users, Social SharePoint, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Office 365, Workflow, Business Intelligence, Special Topics & SharePoint Development. There are sessions created for…

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