Access Insights – Page 105

IEEE Collaborates with Access Innovations, Inc. To Engineer Re-Indexing of Xplore Digital Library

By Melody Smith | March 1, 2011

IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has collaborated with Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data and content management industry, to complete a comprehensive re-indexing of approximately 2.1 million of the 2.8 million IEEE article records in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library database.

Taxonomies and Social Media

By Melody Smith | February 28, 2011

Any discussion of online media today cannot ignore the elephant in the room that is social media. Facebook will reach 700 Million Users by the end of 2011, according to Ted Shelton of Open-First. If anyone had any doubts about the revolutionary power of social media in general and Facebook in particular, those doubts have certainly been swept away by recent events in the Middle East. Not least among the many disruptions caused by social media is the way it has changed how people search, discover, and use content. Significantly, this impact is not limited to people’s personal lives, because social media is increasingly being used by businesses and institutions. Agencies and corporate marketers are scrambling to come up with ways to control messaging across the over 900 million “Tweets” generated by Twitter users every month, but these one-to-many and many-to-many communications (via “re-tweets”) have revolutionized the way business is conducted. Content professionals, and especially those in Knowledge Management and Enterprise Content Management, are beginning to ask what role we should be playing in this unfolding trend.

Taxonomy Information Sources

By Melody Smith | February 21, 2011

I am often asked where can I find out more about software and taxonomies to reuse? There are a number of attempts to organize taxonomy resources on the web. Some are more up to date than others.

Why Use A Taxonomy Management Tool?

By Melody Smith | February 14, 2011 |

This question was recently asked and addressed in a community online forum that my colleagues and I participate in quite frequently. It occurred to me that though it seems like a simple question with an even simpler answer to those of us who live, breathe and eat this stuff every day – it certainly bears revisiting.

Solving the Challenges of Connecting People and Creating Author Networks

By Melody Smith | February 14, 2011

As social media plays an increasingly important role in professional and scholarly publishing, taxonomies can be increasingly useful in connecting people of similar expertise and interests with their peers. This can lead to greater opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and community building. For publishers and scholarly societies, author networks are key to editorial planning, the peer review process, and a wealth of activities supporting the organization and its programs. Taxonomies can play an important role in improving the quality of this “people data,” by enabling name disambiguation and by tagging people’s names with their appropriate subjects.

Knowledge – From Plato to Python

By Melody Smith | February 11, 2011

As I sit here in the last day of the DHUG, I am completed fascinated as I listen to Margie Hlava, President of Access Innovations, speak about The Theory of Knowledge. Touching on philosophy from Plato to St. Augustine to Occam, Descartes and so on, this listener is hooked. With a quick observation of those in the room – leaning forward to hear more points, scribbling notes, nodding of heads and the occasional chuckle to referencing such great philosophers as Monty Python – I am not alone.

Data Harmony 3.8 Beta Released at Users Group Meeting

By Melody Smith | February 9, 2011

This week I am attending the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting in Albuquerque. Though the weather has been disappointing (snow in the desert?), the amount and quality of information has not been in the least. This meeting is serving as the launch of Data Harmony 3.8 Beta and there are many updated features to share.

A New Page in Warfare

By Melody Smith | February 7, 2011

When tanks first rolled onto the field of battle, the soldiers watched and knew that war would never be the same. When planes and submarines began to fly far above or lurk deep in the sea, people knew that the old ways were about to change. These paradigm shifts on the landscape of war trumpeted their arrival and everyone knew that another dog of war had entered the fight. But then, a new front appeared out of the blue.

Setting Up the Store: Taxonomies in E-Commerce

By Melody Smith | February 7, 2011 |

HowHow can a business set up an e-commerce platform that effectively utilizes taxonomies to contribute to its bottom line? In the third of a four-part webinar series co-hosted by Access and the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ), Jay Ven Eman will use a case-study approach to guide participants on how to effectively utilize taxonomies for web delivery, web search and even store layout.

AACR Selects Access Innovations for Semantic Indexing of Content on HighWire

By Melody Smith | February 4, 2011 |

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner to enhance the discoverability of journal content on the HighWire platform as well as across the AACR organization. Leveraging Access Innovations’ proven experience and their highly effective semantic tagging and indexing tools, the AACR will enable their readers and members to make connections between and among related information currently residing in disparate websites.