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Semantic Technology Position Available
As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, etc., we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available…
Read MoreSearch Gets Some Help
It may be possible that analytics engines could now take what was once the area of e-discovery and make effective enterprise search a reality across all company information. Search Content Management brought this news to our attention in their article, “How analytics engines could — finally — relieve enterprise search pain.” This may not seem…
Read MoreMark Your Calendars
I know it seems far away, but it isn’t too soon to put it on your calendar. The Enterprise Data World (EDW) is scheduled for April 17-22, 2016 in San Diego, CA. Enterprise Data World Conference and Expo focuses on data management business solutions. A dedicated conference on “NoSQL in the Enterprise” will be included within…
Read MoreBibliographies Manage Knowledge
The Bibliography of British Technology lists about 320 references to BTI ranging from 1958 to the present. Eight languages are concerned with the bibliography: English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish. Every item has an English abstract or annotation. Items are arranged in systematic order, and cross-references among related items as well as…
Read MoreA Call for More Diversity in Publishing
UK’s publishers are being asked to include more disabled characters in children’s books. The request comes from a reader who was born with a disability himself. This interesting topic came to us from The Guardian in their article, “Schoolboy calls for more disabled characters in children’s books.” Like most organizations and industries, raising diversity among their…
Read MoreDigital Publishing Educational Opportunity
The PSP Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is introducing another Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Digital Publishing. In this series of seminars, speakers will explore the major challenges to serving today’s scholars, the common mistakes that well-meaning publishers make, and tested strategies for delivering precisely the right content when, where, and how users need it.…
Read MoreNew Approach to Fighting Censorship
Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2015 celebration will be held September 27-October 3. Publisher’s Weekly brought this news…
Read MoreEnhancing the Service
The recent VIVO conference in Cambridge, MA was formed following a successful National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored project. In short, VIVO is an open source researcher profile system that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines and institutions. It integrates with a number of other systems (HR, grants, faculty activity databases, and more) and has…
Read MoreChoosing Terms for a Taxonomy or Other Controlled Vocabulary
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murray_OED_vocabulary_types_diagram.svg. Original source: First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Image redrawn by User:DavidPKendal after the diagram by James Murray, first editor of the OED. Recently, we’ve looked at choosing controlled vocabulary terms. More specifically, we’ve considered related terms, choosing non-preferred terms, and choosing broader and narrower terms. In this final installment of our…
Read MoreDoing It Yourself
It feels like over time the often heard phrase of “I want to get published” has morphed into “I am publishing”. With the many changes in the publishing world, book publishing has changed so dramatically that it is no longer necessary to find an agent and pitch a book. Self-publishing opportunities are everywhere and as…
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