Access Insights
Facets Help Move from Search to Found
by Alice Redmond-Neal, Chief Taxonomist, Access Innovations, Inc. In the “everything old is new again” department, facets are all the rage in the taxonomy world! What are facets, where did they come from, and how do they relate to familiar taxonomies and other search support strategies? What are facets? Facets are terms that describe some…
Read MoreClassified Homeland Security: Transforming Data into Information
by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO, Access Innovations, Inc. Originally published in Intelligence & Warning America Table of Contents Velocity, Volume, and Variety Taxonomic Control BUYIN – GET IT Taxonomic Strategy Taxonomy – Build It Taxonomy – Deploy It Maintenance and Training – Keep It Up Search and Find You’ve just read the title and…
Read MoreBridging the Great Indexing Divide
by Alice Redmond-Neal Reprinted from Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society for Indexing I’ve been indexing for over a decade, but when I attended the ASI Annual Meeting 2008 in Denver, I was a stranger in a strange land. Being surrounded by indexers was intriguing yet confounding. You see, I come from the…
Read MoreThe Strategic Business Value of a Well-Constructed Taxonomy
By Bert Carelli An organization’s website is today the primary strategic tool not only for delivering information and promoting its scholarly mission, but also for developing and maintaining relationships with and among its members and the larger scholarly community. A unified semantic strategy is the best way of bringing together all elements of that mission…
Read MoreData Harmony Users to Preview New Features, Options at 2011 Meeting
Users of DataHarmony software from Access Innovations will have the opportunity to preview new features and options, train on how to get the most from the knowledge management software suite, learn from case studies throughout the globe, and discuss their experiences and challenges during the Seventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting February 7-10, 2011 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting will also feature a special seminar entitled “The Theory of Knowledge” presented by Marjorie Hlava, president of Access Innovations.
Read MoreNew Alignment Between Access Innovations and MarkLogic
As reported by Beyond Search in their post, “Access Innovations Aligns with MarkLogic.”, some exciting things are happening at Access Innovations. A new set of enhancements of Data Harmony Suite specifically for MarkLogic servers has been released.
Read MoreMaster Data Management and Taxonomies
November 22, 2010 – At the recent Data Content conference in Philadelphia, put on by InfoCommerce Group, Managing Director Scott Taylor gave a presentation on the challenges and opportunities of Master Data Management (MDM). MDM is usually defined as data management that addresses the need to avoid maintaining multiple versions of singular entities within content stores. In practical…
Read MoreCelebrating 15 Years of Dublin Core
In Pittsburgh, in conjunction with ASIS&T’s recent annual meeting, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Dublin Core metadata standards. DCMI describes itself as “an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI’s activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.”
Read MoreYou Are In Control
Data Harmony users have been given the opportunity to design their own User Group meeting.
Read MoreRepositioning Information Science
One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.
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