Posts by Melody Smith
Metadata is Getting a Bad Rep
Metadata is revealing more about users than plain data and certainly more than they expected. The digital trail of activity can be traced all the way back and tell its own story of sorts. This interesting topic was covered in article in The Hindu titled, “Digital crumbs together paint a larger picture.”
Read MoreRevealing the Priorities
How important someone is to your life has been based on many forms of criteria, i.e. feelings, frequency of visits, even financial impact. With the changes technology continues to bring to our lives, if you consider how much time you spend reading and writing emails throughout a typical day, that may reveal more about your relationships, profession and personal.
Read MoreNatural Language Doesn’t Always Come Naturally
One of our goals in creating taxonomies and thesauri is to express the concepts in natural language. Natural language means that you have written it the way somebody would say it. We don’t invert it.
Read MoreOther Duties As Assigned
Jay Trainer is the new executive for agency services at the National Archives and Records Administration. What a mouthful of a job title and his job reflects the same. Trainer oversees five programs that manage billions of information sources from across all three branches of the government.
Read MoreWebinar Addresses the Use of AI Enterprise Wide
Concept Searching is hosting a webinar entitled “Getting Knowledge Transfer Right Enterprise Wide” on September 5th. This is a joint effort with Discovery Machine Inc.
Read MoreDedication to Standards Recognized
The American National Standards Instittude (ANSI) recently named John Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, is pleased to announce that John Siemon, CTO and vice president of global operations at Siemon, a recipient of the 2013 Leadership and Service Award.
Read MoreRewriting History
With the future word inclusion policies of the Oxford English Dictionary unclear, various professionals were invited to attend a one-day international symposium. Stefan Dollinger, a lexicographer at the University of British Columbia, was one of the invited. Dollinger, one of two Canadians on the list, believes it is time the historic dictionary considers including English words…
Read MoreProject Increases Access for Research
A new joint initiative launched by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will help researchers have access to improved metadata and new tools as they search through and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American National Election Studies (ANES). The two-year project, named Metadata Portal for the Social Sciences, is supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Read MoreReaching the Appropriate Audience
Understanding their customers has always been a goal of retailers. If you understand customers, you can appeal to their interests and needs with the appropriate products and approach. What your customers think of you is just as important. Do your customers think of you as a kindred spirit? Do they think you truly understand their challenges? These questions are important to consider for a strong relationship with your clients and inevitably, a profitable one.
Read MoreProper Indexing Helps Queries
TSO was selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data. TSO is part of the Williams Lea group and their product is the OpenUp platform.
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