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Classifying Your Holiday Meal
The classification of desserts for holidays or otherwise is a perfect opportunity for information science and food to collaborate. I am always fascinated by unusual and interesting taxonomies. However, it is important to remember that, as entertaining and fun as this is, there is value in classification regardless of the topic. Content managers and information developers will have…
Read MoreWhy Taxonomies Matter
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classifying things or concepts. Those of us in the business of information science know it as the essential tool to make content findable, regardless of the subject. Many others know it as the branch of science concerned with identifying and classifying species. It is not always regarded as…
Read MoreAccess Innovations and Aptara Corporation Establish Partnership to Increase Digital Publishing Solutions
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce a partnership with Aptara to provide intelligent publishing solutions to book and journal publishers. Serving as a digital publishing leader since 1988, Aptara is proficient in designing and developing custom content for Fortune 500 companies and other leading organizations from all industries.…
Read MoreData Insights in a Digital World
Data is the asset that businesses are gathering critical insights on to improve business performance. But who will glean insights? Who will process all the collated raw data? Everything is done either by a data analyst or a data scientist. While data analysts and data scientists both work with data, the main difference lies in what they do with…
Read MoreFinding the Value in Digital
Digital media of all kinds have become an increasingly significant part of our everyday experience. Every day, we consume and interact with photos, audio files, video clips, animations, games, interactive ads, streaming movies and even experiential marketing, which has gained a digital edge with the rise of virtual reality and augmented reality. An organization’s content…
Read MoreTime for Boot Camp
Taxonomy Boot Camp is the world’s leading conference dedicated to exploring the successes, challenges, methodologies and products for taxonomies. Join your peers in Washington D.C. and get incredible insight on taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies, tagging mechanisms and other techniques for organizing information. Access Innovations will be represented at this year’s Boot Camp in the workshop –…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Announces Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) Meeting Agenda, Registration is Open
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce that the next Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting will be held in-person in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Registration is open now for the event that will take place February 6 – 8, 2023 and the draft agenda is posted on the…
Read MoreEnriched Data Improves Findability
Semantic enrichment is the process of adding a layer of topical metadata to content so that machines can make sense of it and, even more importantly, build connections to it. In the digital world, semantic technologies and procedures automate the classification of digital content and enable the assignment of content to specific topic areas. Semantic methods…
Read MoreAccess Innovations at ASIS&T
The American Society for Information Science and Technology’s (ASIS&T) 85th annual meeting is October 29-November 1, 2022. This year’s theme is Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re-Imagining an Information-Resilient Society. As part of the rich agenda, there is a panel discussion on Sunday, October 30 titled “Accessibility, Usability, Inclusivity: Information Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices (ASIS&T Standards Committee).” This will…
Read MoreMetadata and Publishing
If you were unable to attend the recent event – CHORUS Forum: Improving Scholarly Publishing Metadata – never fear, it was recorded and is available for viewing here. This educational event looked at publishing metadata and addressed how funders, research administrators, librarians and publishers can work together to improve scholarly publishing metadata. Metadata that is…
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