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Inside Data Breaches
Data breaches spiked by 86 percent in 2016 with over 1.4 billion records being compromised. Hackers, cyber criminals and other malicious outsiders were responsible for just over two-thirds of last year’s data breaches. The healthcare industry suffered the most with 28 percent of all reported breaches in 2016. With hackers casting wider nets, they are accessing easily attainable…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Organizing “ASIDIC Revisited”
Access Innovations, Inc. is arranging a meeting in the style of the historic ASIDIC meetings. The meeting will be September 24 – 25, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ASIDIC meetings were small and focused on topics relevant to then-current significant industry issues and were held in various venues in the United States and Canada. “This…
Read MoreThe Messy Business of Metadata
Wait, I thought the purpose of metadata was to bring order and make the search process cleaner and thus make findability achievable. How can it be messy? The workflow in digital collections is evolving to accommodate the needs of linked data. This can get messy – like any change process will be. While many tasks are…
Read MoreWhat Do You Think About Taxonomies?
At the recent 2017 Information Architecture Summit in Chicago, Illinois, our own Bob Kasenchak shared his presentation titled Taxonomic Irony Or: What I Think About When I Think About Taxonomies (Including A Meta-Taxonomy).” Bob discussed different types of taxonomies and how information professionals go about tackling organizing data. It turns out that organizing pages on a website for…
Read MoreWomen Aviators: Then & Now
A newly discovered photograph suggests aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands. The photo, found in a long-forgotten file in the National Archives, shows a woman who resembles Earhart and a man who appears to be her navigator, Fred Noonan. The discovery was recently featured…
Read MoreNaming Conventions
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics, and the practice and science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that underlie such classification. It is also one of the few chances scientists get to actually inject humor into the published literature, and it’s a…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Adds Custom Search to American Water Works Association’s In-house Document Repository
Albuquerque, NM – Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, has recently completed a new project with one of their longest standing clients, the American Water Works Association (AWWA). AWWA has used Access Innovations’ XML Intranet System (XIS) application since 2004 and recently contracted for a major update. AWWA upgraded to the newest…
Read MoreFather’s Day: History in the Making
Yesterday, the United States observed Father’s Day. This celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society is observed by over 40 countries, just not all on the same day. Though it has been celebrated since the Middle Ages, this celebration was brought by the Spanish and Portuguese to Latin America,…
Read MoreWhat’s On Your Summer Reading List?
It’s that time of year again: summer reading! Last year I wrote about how librarians catalog, search, provide readers advice and come up with book lists. This year I want to go in a different direction. Imagine being packed into an old Chevy Suburban filled with cousins and going on road trips to the mountains. This…
Read MoreUp Close with Taxonomies
Recently, our own Bob Kasenchak, Director of Product Development at Access Innovations, was interviewed by PLOS Staff Researcher, Elizabeth Seiver, on her podcast in the episode titled, Building Taxonomies: An interview featuring Bob Kasenchak. In today’s digital age, it’s important to be able to sift through a lot of content and find what you’re looking for. With…
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