Posts by Melody Smith
On the Cusp of DHUG
Next week will be the 11th Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting here in Albuquerque. By far, the biggest week of the year for Access Innovations as our clients come from all over the nation to meet and learn from the people who built the software and use it on a daily basis.
Read MorePublishing Alters Stance on Free Access
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently announced plans to allow free access to private sector articles reporting on federally funded research fall short of advancing sustainable public access. These plans require unnecessary government spending that wastes taxpayer money and will ultimately harm publishers’ ability to advance science and scholarship.
Read MoreEarly Bird Discount Extended for Text Analytics World
Text Analytics World is meeting in San Francisco March 30-April 1. If you haven’t already registered, remember that the conference covers a wide range of topics in two broad areas: Social Media (sentiment analysis, customer behavior prediction, and Voice of the Customer, etc.) and the latest Enterprise Text Analytics applications from enhancing enterprise search to such applications as e-Discovery, fraud detection, and myriad others.
Read MoreFree Webinar for SLA Members
A unique learning opportunity is available through the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Offered free to SLA members is the webinar “Social Media in the Library: Discovering Best Practice” sponsored by scholarly and academic publisher, Taylor & Francis Group.
Read MoreProfessional Librarian Positions Available
As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, 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 and how the fields are evolving.
Read MoreEarly Bird Discounts for Enterprise Data World Conference
The Enterprise Data World Conference in Washington, DC March 29 – April 3, 2015 is around the corner and if you haven’t made the decision to attend yet, maybe the list of keynote speakers will help you make up your mind. The speakers will change the way you make decisions in our data-driven world and hopefully inspire you to use your data skills in new ways.
Read MoreVisualizing History
In a series of papers studying the history of American innovation, Mikko Packalen at the University of Waterloo and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, indexed every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years. Why, you ask? They wanted to measure the significance of a new invention.
Read MoreTime for Camp
It is time to start thinking about taxonomies. Taxonomies are powerful tools used by a wide range of professionals, from marketers to data scientists, for solving diverse problems from navigation to product information management. At this year’s Taxonomy Boot Camp in Washington D.C. on November 2-3, 2015, the theme is “Sharing Solutions: Taxonomy Across Boundaries.”
Read MoreMetadata at Home
Metadata and snail mail are working together. The United States Postal Service has reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.
Read MoreA Newbie’s Guide to DHUG, Part 2
It’s hard to believe that the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting starts a week from today. If I thought things were buzzing in the office a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t know what was in store for me. And since there’s so much to do, it’s definitely at the front of my mind.
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