Posts by Melody Smith
Learning Opportunity in Taxonomies
We always like to pass on training and learning opportunities as they come across our desk(top). The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) offers theoretical courses for students, technicians, and early career researchers involved in the field of taxonomy. The program is open to participants from both inside and outside of Europe. The primary objective of…
Read More2015 SBR Taxonomy Published
The Netherlands Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program has published the first beta version (9.0.b.1) of the 2015 SBR Taxonomy 2015.
Read MoreSummer Opportunity for Grad Students
The Innovation & Technology Solutions (ITS) Team has an opening in their Pathways Internship Program. The turnaround on this is fast as the position closes Friday, February 27th – tomorrow! However, all interested candidates can apply here.
Read MoreOpportunity for Librarians
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
Read MoreClassifying Order
Standards are important for many reasons. Consistency creates quality and standards create consistency. Professional standards for archival descriptions involve a hierarchical structure. This ensures that users will find your archival database easy to navigate.
Read MoreMore Webinars for This Week
School is in session as there are more webinar and learning opportunities to share. The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) is conducting webinars in partnership with leading industry analysts and consulting firms. Your questions and comments are welcome for live Q&A during each event. These webinars are free and last about one hour.
Read MoreStart Planning Now
KMWorld 2015 seems far away in November, but the planning is already underway. The planning team is seeking experienced and knowledgeable experts who can provide practical, hands-on information, case studies, and instruction that will maximize the value of the conference attendees’ technological investments. Topics should include search, content, enterprise, and knowledge management, but the core component should be around agility. Agile can mean applying an incremental and iterative approach, or evolving through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams to promote early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourage rapid and flexible response to change.
Read MoreMaking Connections
The 11th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting just wrapped up, and as we reflect on the week-long event, making connections is the unofficial theme that emerged. This makes perfect sense, because the benefit that our attendees mention most often is the networking opportunity – the connections we make with colleagues – during the…
Read MoreWebinar Opportunity This Week
We always like to share learning opportunities with our readers and the latest is an interesting webinar titled, “5 Key Elements to a Successful Ecommerce Product Taxonomy.” This is scheduled for Wednesday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m. (EST).
Read MoreBetter Analytics, Better Data
Cambridge Semantics and SPARQL City are collaborating to offer an integrated graph analytics solutions with semantic understanding to help enterprises get better understanding and value from big data.
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