Posts by Melody Smith
Well-Built Taxonomies are Core of Knowledge Management
Access Innovations’ CEO, Jay Ven Eman shared his views of taxonomies and their correlation to knowledge management in a recent article feature.
Read MoreMeasures to Findability
Digital asset management (DAM) is one of those things that confuses people, which discourages them from addressing it. Kind of like those tasks we all put off until we can no longer justify ignoring them. DAM brings with it extra policy, added expenses, and more required training for an already overloaded staff. So why do we do it?
Read MoreComic Book Heroes
For those comic book geeks…err…collectors in the audience Marvel Entertainment’s new API allows you to build Marvel Comic apps for your own use. That last part was important. You can’t market them for revenue. The Disney-owned company is opening up the data from its 75-year publishing history, including cover art, characters and comic book crossover events, for developers. This “free for all” gives them access to metadata for more than 30,000 comics and 7,000 series.
Read MoreWebinar Address Authority Files
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.
Read MorePumas and Cougars and Snails, OH MY!
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.”
Read MoreAnalyze Away
In this world of big data, analytics, and science, when is enough enough? Analytics provides descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, but some are looking for that next level – the semantic level.
Read MoreStreamlining Findability
Processes like e-discovery are time-consuming and costly. No one likes paying lawyers $500 an hour to retrieve documents rather than build your company’s defenses. A proactive records management strategy can make information governance central.
Read More10th Annual Semantic Technology & Business Conference
The Semantic Technology & Business Conference celebrates its 10th year, and the predictions indicate it will be better than ever. Semantic technologies are being used to generate revenue, save money, and solve real problems. The Semantic Technology & Business Conference brings together today’s industry leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists.
Read MoreClassifying Colors
As a writer, I can completely understand someone who “loves to collect words.” Whether you are writing a story, reading or just mentally bookmarking words for future use, I get the fascination.
Read MoreDigitizing Government Records
The first modern Land Record Management and Information System (LRMIS) center is working in Taxila tehsil. All land records of the entire tehsil will be digitized, which will create conveniences in transfer of properties and getting revenue documents.
Read More