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Taxonomy Workshop Available
Before you sign off for the holidays, consider starting your new year out with some educational learning. Our own Margie Hlava will be the instructor for a workshop titled, Taxonomy Essentials. This will be held on January 21, 2014 in Denver, Colorado.
Read MoreBob Kasenchak selected to be new Production Coordinator at Access Innovations, Inc.
Bob Kasenchak, formerly a Project Manager at Access Innovations, Inc., has recently been promoted to Production Coordinator within the company. Bob is a great representation of the fresh talent at Access Innovations. His extraordinary people skills, organizational skills, and leadership qualities make him an excellent fit to oversee editorial endeavors.
Read MoreThe Ghost of Research Past
There are a good many professional organizations that take their knowledge organization and dissemination responsibilities seriously. One good example, appropriately enough, is the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), which maintains a free online bibliographic service covering knowledge organization literature.
Read MorePLOS Celebrates Milestone
Public Library of Science (PLOS) is celebrating the publication of its 100,000th article, an achievement that represents the efforts of authors, editors, reviewers and staff from more than 200 countries. This exciting news was found on the PLOS site in their post titled, “PLOS Celebrates Milestone.”
Read MoreA Thousand Terms of Light
Last week, my co-workers and I were discussing points of knowledge. The phrase “a thousand terms of knowledge” popped up. It was apparently an off-the-cuff mingling of “a thousand points of light” with “points of knowledge” and with one of the topics of the moment, thesaurus terms. I couldn’t resist following up on the mixture, which has a precedent of sorts in an earlier TaxoDiary blog posting by Marjorie Hlava.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Celebrates 35th Anniversary
Albuquerque-based Access Innovations, a leader in semantic enrichment, celebrates its 35th anniversary this month.
Officially incorporated on November 8, 1978, Access Innovations began like many other entrepreneurial enterprises — with a great idea, a few energetic people, and a little bit of capital. The company’s first headquarters was the kitchen of president and co-founder Marjorie M.K. Hlava’s home.
Read MoreLearning Opportunities with the Access Staff
Several of the Access Innovations’ staff are still out and about as they wind up 2013. Check out these learning opportunities that just might be in your own neighborhood.
Read MoreLists Large and Small: Let Me Count the Ways
We taxonomists love lists. For us, they are raw materials, the stuff we love to get our hands on to start organizing. I recently came across a couple of lists with crossover appeal and relevance beyond simple conceptual organization. Both address why we do this stuff and how we help turn information into actionable knowledge.
Read MoreA Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification
Recently, I was watching a show on the Weather Channel about the “discovery” of a previously unrecognized type of cloud. This intrigued me, as I’ve always wondered how the “official” classifications of various kinds of things come about, and just who has the authority somehow to establish the classifications and terminology. We all know at least some of the standard cloud types – cirrus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, etc. (If you want to know all the types and subtypes, check out Wikipedia’s “List of cloud types”.) Who decided on those names and types, and why?
Read MoreAccess Innovations’ Taxonomy Client Public Library of Science (PLOS) Unveils PLOS ONE Platform
PLOS ONE unveiled its new e-journal platform last month, with Subject Area browsing capability made possible by the PLOS thesaurus, constructed by Access Innovations in 2012 and refined in collaboration with PLOS since then. PLOS ONE is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2006. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine.
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