The Gift of SMEs
A typical thesaurus construction project for a scholarly publisher, policy clearinghouse, medical institution, or any other client with a technical vocabulary involves the input of a number of stakeholders.
Webinar Addresses Effective Semantic Strategy
There are many pieces that need to fit together to implement a semantic strategy. Just as the instruments in an orchestra combine to provide a beautiful sound, a semantic strategy can provide a wonderful platform for your user community to enjoy. To really make it work, however, you need to understand each instrument and how to organize them for the best effect. Register today and plan to attend the webinar - Orchestrating an Effective Semantic Strategy Webinar on December 16 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Mountain Time).
Non-Impressive Word of the Year
In a sign of the times though I am not entirely certain it is a good one, the word of the year is a term used in electronic cigarette smoking.
Leveling the Playing Field
The news of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarding a $500,000, three-year National Leadership Grant to four partner organizations is being celebrated. It is safe to say the four organizations - the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Montana State University, OCLC Research, and the University of New Mexico— are certainly celebrating the grants to perform research and recommend best practices that will improve data collection and information sharing for institutional repositories and digitized collections.
Semantic Technology Offers Solutions
Many automated knowledge extraction and processing applications rely on computing semantic relatedness between textual labels representing biological and medical concepts. Because of the large amount of new findings, most methods benefit from making use of highly specific resources.