For most of us snow is a 4-letter word. Winter has lasted longer and been meaner this year than the decade prior. We are all yearning for spring to arrive and personally, I will hurt the first person who complains that they are hot. But seriously, you can't be surprised that I found a taxonomy of snow. It was inevitable.
Access Innovations' CEO, Jay Ven Eman shared his views of taxonomies and their correlation to knowledge management in a recent article feature.
The American Society for Indexing is hosting a webinar titled - Creating Name Authority Files for Large Indexing Projects. Leading the event is Linda Dunn from Dunn Information Organization. Linda has been a periodical indexer for over thirty years and has been interested in authority files since she began indexing. Through her work with multiple databases she has become familiar with many types of authority files both proprietary and open source.
When you use a thesaurus for indexing context covering multiple disciplines, the need for disambiguation of terms is increased. This fact of thesaurus life was well illustrated in a presentation at this year’s DHUG (Data Harmony Users Group) meeting. The presentation, by Rachel Drysdale, Taxonomy Manager of the Public Library of Science (PLOS), was titled “The PLOS Thesaurus: the first year.”