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The Accidental Taxonomist by Heather Hedden Review
Review of Heather Hedden’s recent book, The Accidental Tourist. Little has been published with a solid how-to approach to implementing thesaurus construction standards. This book fills that gap.
Read MoreNLGbAse Serves As Extractor of Metadata
NLGbAse project building metadata database.
Read MoreDigging Deeper in Drupal’s Taxonomy
Drupal fans can learn more about its capabilities.
Read MoreLife is Art, Why Can’t Data Be Art?
Metadata becomes art.
Read MoreTwitter Annotations Are Scaring the Social Junkies
Twitter Annotations create excitement and buzz.
Read MoreSoftware Makes Enterprise Audio And Video Fully Searchable
Full text search for audio and video content.
Read MoreEntertaining Video by Librarians Tells a Story
Entertaining video also educates.
Read MoreIndexing: Chopping Logic
June 4, 2010 – The Nieman Journalism Lab’s “Aggregators, Curators, and Indexers: There’s a Difference and It Matters” makes a great deal of sense. You will want to read the original write-up by C. W.Anderson. For us, the most interesting comment was: Anytime you hear someone talk about Google News, The Huffington Post, Gawker, blogging,…
Read MoreMicrosoft Research Approach to Hierarchical Taxonomy Building
June 3, 2010 – Earlier this year we learned about a novel method for building taxonomies. We located on Microsoft Research’s Web site the complete paper, “Building Taxonomy of Web Search Intents for Name Entity Queries.” Like most technical papers, there is a hefty dose of math, but in this paper the authors have provided…
Read MoreElectronic Newsletters Add Classification System
June 3, 2010 – SmartBrief http://www.smartbrief.com, a publisher of electronic newsletters for various industries, has added the Lexalytics classification system to their repertoire according to “SmartBrief Signs Agreement to Integrate Lexalytics Classification Solution” . The system allows “flexibility in classifying content from various sources” and provides a toolkit that can help “create, edit, and revise…
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