Access Innovations Completes Mapping Engagement with EDO

Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the successful completion of a data taxonomy project with leading data analytics company EDO Inc., who contracted with Access Innovations to build a proprietary taxonomy to enable marketers to easily search, view, and compare TV advertisements. The project required Access Innovations, Inc.…

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Blockchain Might Be the Answer to Open Access

Consumers utilize and accumulate massive amounts of personal data in their everyday lives. From financial records to purchasing history to geographic location data; they depend on this data to deliver personalized online services and experiences. This interesting topic came to us from Open Access Government in their article, “The future of public services means giving citizens control…

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Access Innovations, Inc. and the American Psychological Association announce the deployment of a New MAI System

Access Innovations, Inc., the provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the deployment of a new Machine Aided Indexing (M.A.I.®) system for the American Psychological Association (APA). The goal of this new system is to provide more consistent and efficient indexing of the content of the PsycINFO database, which currently comprises more…

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Access Innovations Will Be In Oslo

The 19th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop is scheduled for Thursday, September 12, 2019, to be held as part of the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2019 in Oslo, Norway. The agenda is full of interesting, engaging topics and speakers. This includes Access Innovations’ own Marjorie Hlava whose workshop is KOS Mappings. Although…

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Classifying the Bards and the Bangles?

Taxonomies do not belong to one science or interest. They can be applied anywhere from a grocery store to plant anatomy to hip hop music? A music fan (err geek) decided to compare the vocabulary of the literary world’s giant, Shakespeare, to those of famous hip hop artists. Shakespeare’s vocabulary across his entire corpus is said…

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Access Innovations Enhances Search on McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering

Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce a recently completed project with McGraw-Hill to create a series of robust taxonomies that will support the back end of AccessEngineering. These taxonomies will improve search functionality for those interested in AccessEngineering’s educational materials. During the course of the project, three taxonomies were…

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Origin of Band Names

Have you ever wondered where musical groups like Pink Floyd or Foo Fighters got the inspiration for their band names?  You aren’t alone. One aspect of the music world that has always interested me is the process of choosing a band name or moniker. Often when you ask musicians how they arrived at their choice,…

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