Posts by Melody Smith
Crowdsourcing Funds to Preserve Language
The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) has cataloged vernacular terms and idioms from around the country since it was founded in the early 1960s, Sadly, their funding is coming up empty. Previously funded by various grants, including endowments from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project will run out of money this summer.
Read MoreSecuring the Data
Data security breaches have not been limited to one particular type of business. Retailers have been victims, as has the healthcare industry. Ironically, education institutions also suffer data breaches at a rate of just over one per week. But the real victims have been the customers and patients who trusted their most personal information to these organizations while assuming that those organizations’ security measures would be enough.
Read MoreTaxonomy Blogs – The Big Picture
We who blog on TaxoDiary know that it’s not the only blog that has to do with taxonomies and such. There are a few others out in cyberspace, and each has its own character. Let’s take a look at some of them, starting with what we know best.
Read MoreReferencing the Data
TopQuadrant has released TopBraid Reference Data Manager™ (TopBraid RDM) to bring consistency and accuracy to reference data management.
Read MoreSearch Ranks as Important
As Concept Searching is compiling the statistics from its 2015 SharePoint and Office 365 Metadata survey, one of the findings that has emerged is a renewed focus on improving enterprise search.
Read MoreDepth of Classifications
We know that when a taxonomy is well-designed and rooted in standards, it can make finding your content easy and thorough. However, the meaning of the word ‘taxonomy’ is often confused with that for ‘classification’ or even ‘thesaurus’.
Read MoreRevolution in the Reference Section
Drama in the archival world? Who would have thought? You may have heard about the two archivists at University of Oregon who handed over close to 22,000 school records to an economics professor just for the asking. One archivist has since resigned. The remaining archivist was recently placed on administrative leave. There is a petition going to reinstate him and more than 100 University of Oregon professors have signed.
Read MoreClassifying Science
The INIS (International Nuclear Information System) Thesaurus is a valuable and useful product used by the INIS Secretariat and Member States to index documents for input into the INIS Collection and to facilitate information retrieval for global users of the collection.
Read MoreManaging Your Assets
Extensis has released their modular digital asset management (DAM) system, Extensis Portfolio, with promises of transforming the user experience.
Read MoreCustom Storage Increases Findability
21st Century Technologies Limited has developed an indigenous records and information management solution that offers companies secure, innovative, and customized document storage and management.
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