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Choosing Terms for a Taxonomy or Other Controlled Vocabulary
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murray_OED_vocabulary_types_diagram.svg. Original source: First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Image redrawn by User:DavidPKendal after the diagram by James Murray, first editor of the OED. Recently, we’ve looked at choosing controlled vocabulary terms. More specifically, we’ve considered related terms, choosing non-preferred terms, and choosing broader and narrower terms. In this final installment of our…
Read MoreBob Kasenchak to present as Part of FEDLINK’s Building Web Taxonomies Program
Bob Kasenchak, Director of Business Development for Access Innovations, Inc., will be presenting at the Building Web Taxonomies program, sponsored by the Federal Library & Information Network (FEDLINK). Bob will discuss smart thesauri, how to build and implement them into an existing workflow, and what they can do for analytics and linked data. FEDLINK conducts…
Read MoreChoosing Non-Preferred (and Preferred) Terms for a Thesaurus
© Kellyplz | Dreamstime.com – Squirrels Making Wishes. Photo Synonyms and other non-preferred terms are largely what make a taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) a thesaurus. They can enrich a vocabulary in a variety of ways. Searches on a vocabulary can take advantage of non-preferred synonyms to direct the search from those words or phrases…
Read MoreChoosing Broader and Narrower Terms
Photo by Fanghong, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian-Matroshka.jpg / CC BY-SA 3.0 As most readers of this blog know, taxonomies are controlled vocabularies in which the terms are arranged hierarchically. Terms representing the broadest concepts are at the top level, and terms representing more specific concepts within those concepts are placed at a deeper level. The result is a…
Read MoreData Harmony® v.3.10 Named 2015 Trend Setting Product by KMWorld
Access Innovations, Inc., the industry leader in data organization and innovators of the Data Harmony® software suite, is pleased to announce that KMWorld has named Data Harmony Version 3.10 on their list of Trend Setting Products for 2015. “It is vital to stay at the forefront of knowledge management and, with Data Harmony v.3.10, we…
Read MoreChoosing Related Terms
Source: Dreamstime Which quiche? You’ll have to read to the end to find out. As many of our readers are aware, hierarchical thesauri are distinguished from other taxonomies by (among other things) the inclusion of non-hierarchical relationships among terms. One main type of non-hierarchical relationship is the equivalence relationship, which is usually expressed as a…
Read MoreLet’s Talk Semantics
The rapid growth of digital information has been discussed here many times. It has spawned many interesting and creative approaches to information analyzing, indexing, retrieval, and findability. Access Innovations has been acutely aware of the needs for quite some time and works to provide comprehensive solutions for its clients. This interesting topic came from Research Information in their…
Read MoreClassifying Exoplanets: Where does Earth 2.0 fall?
On the 9th of January, 1992, astronomers around the world rejoiced. For the first time ever, they had definitive proof of a planet orbiting another star. These early observations were extremely limited, mainly focused on noticing the wobble of the parent star, but they opened the proverbial floodgate for exoplanet discovery. A little over two…
Read MoreRegistration Now Open for the 12th Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting
Registration is now open for the twelfth annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled for February 9-10, 2016 at the Access Innovations, Inc. offices located at 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Access Innovations, the company behind the Data Harmony product line, hosts the annual meeting. Case studies presented by Data…
Read MoreEverything Goes Every Place It Fits
The traditional taxonomy is monohierarchical – there is one and only one place for every term. This is only sensible for many purposes; no one wants to look up a book in a library catalog only to find out that it is either in Section A or Section F, and no biologist would ever identify…
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