Posts by Melody Smith
Semantic Content Position Available
We are always excited to share with our readers career opportunities in the world of taxonomy, metadata and semantic technology. 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 MoreData Harmony Release Contains Exciting New Features
Last week Access Innovations released Data Harmony 3.9 and all week long we shared some of our own developers’ favorite new features. It was nice to see KM World lift up some of the other great new features available in their article, “Content enrichment from Access Innovations.”
Read MoreSemantic Technology Requires Experience
TEMIS has entered into a strategic agreement with CABI, a not-for-profit organization providing information and applying scientific expertise to address problems in agriculture and the environment.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Jobs Available
Apple is looking for a of Chicago is looking for a Software Engineer for Natural Language Processing. Apple’s Natural Languages Group is responsible for a wide range of natural language processing and data, including auto correction, spellchecking, parts-of-speech tagging, input method conversion, and other technologies that incorporate natural-language information.
Read MoreThe Supposed Advantages of Statistical Indexing
I would like to make some observations about statistics-based categorization and search, and about the advantages that their proponents claim.
First of all, statistics-based co-occurrence approaches do have their place. For wide-ranging bodies of text such as email archives and social media exchanges, and for assessing the nature of an unknown collection of documents, a well-defined collection of concepts covering a pre-determined area of study and practice is not possible. For lack of this foundation, and for lack of other practical approaches, attempts at analysis fall back on less-than -ideal mathematical approaches.
Read MoreApplying Standards in the Right Places
Many businesses work hard at developing and implementing records and information management strategies. However, if you dig a little deeper into those “strategies”, you may find a lack of management. Many confuse the terms data management and storage. Tucking away all your data somewhere safe is not the definition for data management.
Read MoreMore ways we improved Data Harmony documentation for the 3.9 software release
Data Harmony onscreen interface tabs, button-names, menu options, dialog boxes, text-boxes, and actual computer code examples: Each category is presented in a different emphasis and font-style in the software instructions, to reduce confusion for the new reader.
Read MoreThe Art of Taxonomy
I know you are going to think I have a drinking problem. First whiskey, and now beer. However, if it helps, I do not like beer and yes, I have tried your favorite kind and I still don’t like it. I do like this interesting infographic though.
Read MoreHow did we improve Data Harmony documentation for the 3.9 software release?
In 2014, we improved the instruction manuals significantly – to be more comprehensive without being harder on the eyes. We upgraded the documentation to be even clearer, more consistent and complete than before, while removing extraneous material.
Read MoreUsing Metadata to Revisit History
We shared an article here last year about using metadata to find Paul Revere. It was sort of “tongue in cheek” but a good example of how much power metadata possesses and the positive uses for it.
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