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Mastering the Subjects
Creating a taxonomy often begins with input from subject matter experts (SMEs) and by evaluating other taxonomies or thesauri already being used in the subject domain. An SME might be a software engineer, a help desk support operative, an accounts manager, a scientific researcher – anybody with in-depth knowledge of the subject you are attempting…
Read MoreTaxonomies and Big Data
Taxonomy is the science of classification – typically and most commonly, classifying organisms. The science of naming, describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world. Using morphological, behavioral, genetic and biochemical observations, taxonomists identify, describe and arrange species into classifications, including those that are new to science. Since the turn…
Read MoreSemantic Technology and the Internet of Things
It has been said that the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) could not be realized without semantic technologies. If it is not clear what the meaning or content of a “thing” is in the IoT, neither the communication nor the interaction between objects, which are supposed to come together in the Internet will work.…
Read More1776 Was A Leap Year
The United States will celebrate its Independence Day – July 4th – this week. Fireworks, parades, cookouts, music–the typical content of a 4th of July celebration. It’s a time when many people relax, have fun, and wave the American flag. But who stops to think about what the 4th of July means? Sure, we learned in middle school…
Read MoreRelationships: The Good, the Bad, and the Analyzed?
Relationships can be challenging at best. Relationships with family, friends and people in general contain facets and dynamics that are evolving and often contentious. When it comes to data content, relationships are just as important and just as volatile. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and…
Read MoreHappy Father’s Day
We celebrated Father’s Day yesterday, so it felt appropriate to share an article written several years ago for this blog about the “father of library science” – Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article about him, Ranganathan “is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Completes Thesaurus and Indexing Project for Hindawi Limited
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce that, using their award-winning Data Harmony semantic enrichment software, the recent completion of a thesaurus and indexing project with open-access publisher Hindawi Limited. Hindawi had put a program in place to add a semantic layer to their content. To achieve their goal, they engaged with Access Innovations, leaders…
Read MoreTake Advantage of Taxonomy 101, a Full Day Workshop Taught by Experts at the SLA 2018 Annual Conference
Taxonomies organize a collection of information – structured or unstructured – and they underpin search in many applications. Taxonomy 101 provides the basics for knowledge organization, outlining “nuts and bolts” of building a taxonomy, where to start, and where to implement it to realize the most benefit to an organization. Bring your questions and join…
Read MoreWill You Remember?
When I say memories, your mind probably goes to childhood, marriages, births, vacations, etc. Fond or maybe traumatic events that have imprinted themselves into our minds for better or for worse. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. A federal holiday for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces.…
Read MoreAccess Innovations to hold DHUGE 2018 at AAAS Headquarters
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has invited Access Innovations to hold the second Data Harmony Users Group East (DHUGE) meeting at their Washington, DC headquarters. AAAS hopes to highlight the synergy between the two organizations and showcase how this collaboration is furthering the mission of AAAS. DHUGE 2018 will take place…
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