Posts by Melody Smith
Information Science Master Gone
This sad news was brought to our attention today and though we learned of it later than most, we couldn’t let it go by without mentioning. Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster, 79, of Urbana, passed away on Sunday, August 25, 2013 in his home.
Read MoreChoosing the Right Partner
Infolinx System Solutions was chosen by the District of Columbia Department of Human Resources (DCHR) for their enterprise physical records management software. This recently completed the installation is an upgrade to manage approximately 35,000 active employee records.
Read MoreResolving Challenges Through Taxonomies
Concept Searching will be a Gold Sponsor of SharePoint Fest – Chicago, taking place on October 7-9 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Technical classes and seminars will be taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft engineers, and Microsoft Most Valued Professionals.
Read MoreOptions for Handling Health Records
BetterChart has announced that the unveiling of their new BetterChart 2.0 will take place during the hosting of a webinar scheduled for Thursday, October 3 at 10:30 a.m. CST. Attendees to the one-hour webinar will hear how Washington University School of Medicine uses the new and improved BetterChart on a daily basis to decrease time spent loading documents into their electronic health records (EHRs) and keep the document management costs at a reasonable place.
Read MoreTypes of Hierarchical Relationships
The defining characteristic of taxonomies is the presence of hierarchical relationships. Information specialists recognize several types of hierarchical relationships. Generic relationship – As explained in ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (page 47), “This relationship identifies the link between a class and its members or species.” The generic relationship is generally called the Broader term/Narrower term relationship. In most cases, it’s easy in traditional biological taxonomy of organisms, because of its well-established and well-known groupings of phyla, genera, families, species, and so forth, i.e., Rodents and NT Squirrels.
Read MoreWebinar on Practical Classification – This Week!
The SLA Taxonomy Division presents the second webinar in their Practical Classification series. Sharon Garewal, from JSTOR, and Marcie Zaharee, from MITRE, will each describe how they use tools to build thesauri and classify data. Mark your calendar now for October 3, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST. The webinars are free to division members. SLA members may attend for $15, or contact SLA to add the division for $20. Non-members may attend for $50. Register here.
Read MoreA Long Time Coming
Relevance and Metadata Partners have announced their official merger and new name – Cognitect, Inc. By combining their resources, knowledge and experience, Cognitect believes it is now positioned to provide even more assistance in leveraging information, harnessing the cloud as an engine for growth, and building robust systems faster by creating simple tools and services that can be composed to solve large problems.
Read MoreHelping to Increase Access to Data
Celebrating ten years as an Open Access publisher, the PLOS (Public Library of Science) is pleased to share and celebrate their progress.
Read MoreTime to Play
We learned in kindergarten that you can learn and play at the same time. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that someone has introduced an application to visualize thesaurus, taxonomies or controlled vocabularies in an entertaining manner.
Read MoreThe Power and Gift of Knowledge
Education Secretary Arne Duncan appeared on the Colbert Report this week where he stressed the importance of both preschool and post-secondary education to host Stephen Colbert. Studies have shown there is a seven to one return on investment when children attend preschool.
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