Posts by Melody Smith
Is Taxonomy the Oldest Profession?
I recently came across a reference to taxonomy as “the oldest profession”. Could it be? Intrigued, I g**gled and discovered that Dr. Joel Walker Hedgpeth had given an entire talk on the subject in 1961, as the Eleventh Annual University of the Pacific Faculty Research Lecture.
Read MoreNew Partnership to Address Big Data
Smartlogic and eTouch Systems have announced a partnership to deliver enterprise content management and search solutions. The partnership grew out of a two-year project with NASA that improved the space agency’s findability of their content.
Read MoreSemantic Technology and Integration
Ontology Systems have made available their latest semantic search platform that replaces data integration. Ontology 4 incorporates unstructured and structured application data. This allows organizations to search and link applications, databases, files and more.
Read MoreFile Cabinets In the Sky?
Combining their cloud-based storage with the voice recording skills of Orange Trading Solutions, Bloomberg can now integrate voice data into the Bloomberg Vault and produce electronic records in almost real time. Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Watch Your Tone — Bloomberg Vault Now Archives Voice Too.”
Read MoreQuality Takes Experience
There is a webinar called, “Taxonomy – The User’s perspective”, being offered on Wednesday, July 24 at 11:00 a.m. CET, presented by the Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) classification expert Thom Clark.
Read MoreHow the Semantic Web Has Changed Us
The web changes daily and how we are or aren’t changing with it is the topic of an interesting discussion brought to us by Balkans Business News. The article titled, “David Amerland – Helpmyseo.com Founder, SEO / Social Media Consultant, and Author of Google Semantic Search”, used a question and answer format to discuss the semantic web and what it means for the world of technology.
Read MoreWhat is Metadata?
So much talk and news has been around metadata. It has practically become a four letter word. MIT’s Media Lab has developed a new tool – Immersion – to help individuals understand how much personal information their ‘metadata’ reveals about them.
Read MoreDelivering Results
Provider of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy managment sofware, Concept Searching, is celebrating a revenue growth of 40% for the first half of fiscal 2013. This is compared to the same period in 2012.
Read MoreWeather Reporting, Virtually
The White House administration has launched a new online tool to educate and increase awareness into links between climate change and health. The interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program recently unveiled its Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) platform. This interesting news was found on E2 Wire, The Hill’s Energy & Environment Blog in their post titled, “Obama officials roll out climate and health data tool.”
Read MoreThere’s Indexing and There’s Indexing: Report from the American Society for Indexing Conference
The American Society for Indexing may be a little known group to most reading a blog dedicated to taxonomy work. Yet we share a focus on making content accessible, albeit through different strategies. The American Society of Indexers (ASI) was established in 1968 to promote the work of back-of-book indexers and facilitate their interaction. In 2008 it was renamed to the American Society for Indexing with the stated purpose “to promote excellence in indexing, and to serve indexers and others concerned with indexing.” The name change reflected a broadening of scope, including taxonomy work and coinciding with the establishment of the Taxonomy SIG (special interest group). ASI’s training course even includes a taxonomy construction module. The expansion is a response to the mushrooming of electronic content and increasing need for simplifying access to online materials. Yet, for the society focused on “indexing,” taxonomic indexing is called tagging and has seemed an afterthought at best. Indeed, few database indexers attend conferences, and there is little mention of their activity.
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