Taxodiary – Access Insights

Access Innovations, Inc. Now Accepting Presentation Abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

By Melody Smith|July 7th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. Now Accepting Presentation Abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the Call for Presentations for the 2015 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, held every February at Access Innovations company headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. DHUG 2015 is the eleventh annual meeting and will focus on leveraging of taxonomies and tagged data, techniques for integrating tagged data flows into production cycles, and inventive ways to improve the user experience.

Inline Tagging – What’s to Know?

By Melody Smith|June 30th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Inline Tagging – What’s to Know?

Data Harmony released their Inline Tagging Web service extension recently – let’s talk about inline tagging software and information environments well-suited to benefit.

Rule Base Solutions

By Melody Smith|June 23rd, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, semantic, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on Rule Base Solutions

People often ask us how much time it will take to manage a rule base with Data Harmony software. We reply with specific customer experience numbers and tell them a few hours per month of editorial time to maintain both the thesaurus and the rule base. One customer of ours, the American Institute of Physics, found that maintaining their thesaurus and rule base takes less than 15 hours per month for 2000 articles per week throughput. Another customer, The Weather Channel, manages breaking news all day long with four hours per month of maintenance.

Data Harmony Version 3.9 Includes MAI Batch GUI – A New Interface For M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer) and MAIstro™ Modules

By Melody Smith|June 16th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, semantic|Comments Off on Data Harmony Version 3.9 Includes MAI Batch GUI – A New Interface For M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer) and MAIstro™ Modules

Access Innovations, Inc. announces the inclusion of the MAI Batch Graphical User Interface (GUI) as part of the recent Data Harmony Version 3.9 software update release. MAI Batch GUI is a new interface for running a full directory of files through the M.A.I. Concept Extractor. This tool enables processing of large amounts of text through the Data Harmony MAI Concept Extractor with a single command.

Blind Alleys, Dead Ends, and Mazes

By Melody Smith|June 9th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Blind Alleys, Dead Ends, and Mazes

Taxonomies can be displayed in a variety of ways. One of the display types that we occasionally see is known as the flat format display. It’s described in the main U.S. standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, published by the National Information Standards Organization.

Access Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Semantic Fingerprinting Web Service Extension for Data Harmony Version 3.9

By Melody Smith|June 2nd, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, semantic|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Semantic Fingerprinting Web Service Extension for Data Harmony Version 3.9

Access Innovations, Inc. announces the Semantic Fingerprinting Web service extension as part of their Data Harmony Version 3.9 release. Semantic Fingerprinting is a managed Web service offered to scholarly publishers to disambiguate author names and affiliations by leveraging semantic metadata within an existing publishing pipeline.

NIOSH’s Office of Mine Safety and Health Research Implements Taxonomy-based Navigation

By Melody Smith|June 2nd, 2014|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on NIOSH’s Office of Mine Safety and Health Research Implements Taxonomy-based Navigation

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Office of Mine Safety and Health Research (OMSHR) has implemented a taxonomy-based navigation tool on their website -- called “Site Browser” -- that allows researchers and other users to browse content tagged with subject terms from their taxonomy.

Putting Human Intelligence To Work To Enhance the Value of Information Assets

By Melody Smith|May 26th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Putting Human Intelligence To Work To Enhance the Value of Information Assets

Semantic enhancement extends beyond journal article indexing, though the ability of users to easily find all the relevant articles (your assets) when searching still […]

The Size of Your Thesaurus

By Melody Smith|May 19th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Size of Your Thesaurus

During the initial stages of discussing a new taxonomy project, I am frequently asked questions like: How granular does my taxonomy need to be? How many levels deep should the vocabulary go? And especially: How many terms should my thesaurus have? The answer is—of course—it depends.

Access Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Smart Submit Extension Module to Data Harmony Version 3.9

By Melody Smith|May 12th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Smart Submit Extension Module to Data Harmony Version 3.9

Access Innovations, Inc. announces the Author Submit extension module as part of their Data Harmony Version 3.9 release. Author Submit is a Data Harmony application for integration of author-selected subject metadata information into a publishing workflow during the paper submissions or upload process. Author Submit facilitates the addition of taxonomy terms by the author. With Author Submit, each author provides subject metadata from the publisher taxonomy to accompany the item they are submitting. During the submission process, Data Harmony’s M.A.I. core application suggests subject terms based on a controlled vocabulary, and the author chooses appropriate terms to describe the content of their document, thus enabling early categorization and selection of peer reviewers and support for trend analysis.