Posts by Melody Smith
Intro to Taxonomies – Learning Opportunity
Learn from professionals with decades of experience all while enjoying the Canadian hospitality in beautiful Vancouver. The “Introduction to Taxonomies” all day workshop features our own Marjorie Hlava and Bob Kasenchak, and is part of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Vancouver, June 6-10, 2014. The SLA Annual Conference is an excellent international venue for learning new ideas and identifying information trends.
Read MoreLimitations of Fuzzy Matching of Lexical Variants
Some vendors of text analytics software claim that their software can identify the occurrences of text reflecting specific taxonomy terms (with the strong, and false, implication that it identifies all such occurrences) using “fuzzy matching” or “fuzzy term matching.” Some explanations of the technology, from Techopedia and Wikipedia, show that it is a fairly crude mathematical approach, similar to the co-occurrence statistical approaches that such software also tends to use, and no match for rule-based indexing approaches that derive their effectiveness from human intelligence.
Read MoreApproach with Consistency
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recently announced the publication of a revision to the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2014). The original recommended practice which was issued in 2010, provided all parties in the information supply chain with straightforward guidance about metadata formatting.
Read MoreThree Librarians Walk Into a Casino
If you are still on the fence about whether to attend the American Libraries Association (ALA) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas this summer, this bit of news might help you make your decision. There will be a special performance by the Oxford Commas, a band composed of librarians and university press editors who are dedicated to raising the grammatical standard in popular music. The set list will include such favorites as: Whom Do You Love?, You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, and Two Out of Three Is Not Bad.
Read MoreEmbracing Knowledge Management
KM Institute (KMI) just offered its first Certified Knowledge Specialist (CKS) 4-day class this week in Reston, VA. Why are we talking about something that has already happened? The CKS is a new Certification by KMI designed to take a deeper focus a specific knowledge management-related topic. In this case, the focus was on Taxonomy and Search Solutions.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Professional Sought
The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), an international organization launched in 2005, following a proposal from the Global Science Forum of the OECD to establish international coordination and collaborative informatics infrastructure for neuroscience. INCF, in collaboration with the Human Brain Project, is now seeking to immediately hire a Semantic Technology Specialist.
Read MoreA Taxonomy of Me
I couldn’t help myself. A taxonomy of selfies? How could I look away? Please forgive my self-indulgence (pun totally intended).
Read MoreThe Semantics of Whisk(e)y
As noted last week in our article, “A Spirit of Another Name”, Saveur has created a glossary of Whisk(e)ys. However, as we all know, a glossary does not a taxonomy make –it can, however, be a good starting point. One of the problems, of course, is that national styles – and even spellings—are mutable. In general, “whiskey” comes from Ireland and the United States, while “whisky” (no ‘e’) comes from Canada and Scotland. However, well-known bourbon Maker’s Mark long ago decided to buck the semantic trend and drop the “e” despite being an all-American brand.
Read MoreThe Powers of Semantic Technology
Semantic data standards exist in a variety of businesses and markets. In the oil and gas industry, they exist to help users integrate different types of data together or answer some of the more difficult questions. They break down the walls of application names, such as Excel or Oracle, and allow the data to be published, accessed, and linked as simple as browsing a website.
Read MoreSearching the Clouds
Visionet Systems, Inc. has announced the public launch of VisiOCR, a cloud-based automated mortgage document indexing and data extraction service for lenders, servicers, settlement companies, and investors.
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