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The Demand for Taxonomists and Ontologists
Are taxonomists and ontologists as rare as unicorns? Before addressing that question, let’s talk about the difference between taxonomy and ontology first. It can be a complex matter. A taxonomy is a knowledge organization system, a set of words that have been organized to control the use of terms used in a subject field into a…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Announces Agreement with the Association for Materials Protection and Performance
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce they have contracted with the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) to refresh their taxonomy, re-index their database, and provide indexing services for new content as it is added. AMPP is a new organization launched from a merger of the National…
Read MoreTools of the Trade
We know what a taxonomy is and does. A taxonomy provides the structure and classification for organization to create the best findability for content. It represents a predefined organizational structure that can cover a range of subjects from general industries or fields of study to the relevant words and terms unique to the business. They are…
Read MoreWin with Taxonomies
If winning in the content game is your goal, you must have a clear taxonomy. A taxonomy serves to supercharge your content—helping your users find and access the right content in a timely manner. Taxonomy is the science of classification – a basic means of understanding the world around us. Creating information order and structure is what…
Read MoreTaxonomies and Search
Taxonomies provide hierarchical categorization and classification of not only content, but also products and brands represented in online directories and product catalogs. Taxonomies do not belong to one science or interest. They can be applied anywhere from a grocery store to plant anatomy. The power of a taxonomy is in achieving findability in data. In today’s digital age, it’s…
Read MoreAccess Innovations at the 85th Annual ASIS&T Meeting
The 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is scheduled for October 29 – November 1, 2022. This year’s theme is Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re-Imagining an Information-Resilient Society. The ASIS&T Annual Meeting is a forum to assist in conceptualizing, developing and implementing solutions for a future information environment that not only reacts…
Read MoreOpen Access Journal PLOS Water Released with Taxonomy and Semantic Enrichment from Access Innovations, Inc.
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the implementation of a taxonomy for the new open access journal PLOS Water. PLOS contracted with Access Innovations as they were in the planning stages of the new journal, knowing that having a taxonomy in place for semantic enrichment from the start…
Read MoreFinding Data
While data analysts and data scientists both work with data, the main difference lies in what they do with it. Data analysts examine large data sets to identify trends, develop charts and create visual presentations to help businesses make more strategic decisions. Data scientists, on the other hand, design and construct new processes for data modeling…
Read MoreSmart Content
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 Announces Video/Audio to Text to Tagging Solution to Improve Video Transcript Search
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce Video/Audio to Text to Tagging (VATT), a new solution that translates audio files to time stamped text transcripts for indexing, classifying, and enriching by Data Harmony Hub. Originally developed to improve search precision on training videos for a large chemical manufacturer, the new tagging capabilities can be used on any…
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