Posts by Melody Smith
Meeting the Challenges
In an effort to find solutions to current challenges in records management, the Queensland State Archives (QSA) and the Queensland Government Chief Information Office (QGCIO) are leading a consultation process that will be open until Wednesday, 24 December 2014.
Read MoreMarjorie M.K. Hlava’s Taxobook Published by Morgan Claypool
Access Innovations, Inc. is proud to announce the publication of The Taxobook, a three-volume series on taxonomies and thesauri, written by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president of Access Innovations. The three volumes are part of a larger series, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, edited by Gary Marchionini, Dean of the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Read More99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
Taxonomies and classifications are not only helpful, but critical to making your content findable. This is true regardless of the topic or data – even when it is beer.
Read MoreCommon Factors
What do legal jurisdictions and leprechauns have in common? More than one might think. In the world of classification, words like extinct and endangered could be applied to both and many more genres.
Read MoreBringing It All Together
The launch of Salesforce Files Connect allows files from on-premises Microsoft SharePoint to be brought into a company’s cloud workflow.
Read Moree-Discovery Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
The word discovery causes anxiety in some and th term “e-discovery” is even scarier to some. Somehow despite the fact that we use technology on a daily basis, there is still resistance to incorporating digital evidence into a case.
Read MoreConsistency with Standards
This interesting topic came from The Ancient World Online blog, in their post,”Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network: Digital Books, Images and Objects.” The aim of the project “Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network” within the Arachne database is the development and provision of web-based prints from the period between 1500 and 1830. The project encompasses reconstruction and online publication of about 1700 prints that appeared between 1500 and 1900, as well. A total of 2,300 engravings have been processed in this extensive digital indexing project, which spanned 4 1/2 years.
Read MoreSeasonal Classification
In tune with the season, the American Museum of Natural History is featuring a scitification classification exercise where they are sharing one scientific find each day. On the first of the twelve days, a partridge in a book of taxonomy.
Read MoreSearching the Clouds
The cloud storage industry is centered on managing the demands of big data. In this process, cloud technology vendors are moving to better search abilities as well as organizing the vast amount of data collected.
Read MoreRaising a Glass to Rich and Complicated Words
As we anticipate the approaching new Gregorian year, those of us who are taxonomists are looking forward with renewed anticipation to the taxonomic challenges that certain kinds of words bring. Take “glass”, for example. “Glass” is one of those words that contain an abundance of possible meanings. Ironically, this poses the potential for ambiguity. What makes this particular situation even more ironic is that this ambiguity clouds the very clarity that the word often symbolizes. Ambiguous words are tricky to work with in constructing and developing taxonomies and thesauri. Moreover, they make the writing of effective indexing rules challenging. Taking care in the crafting of those rules becomes all the more important, because of the need for disambiguation.
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