Taxodiary – Access Insights

Webinar on Practical Classification – This Week!

By Melody Smith|September 30th, 2013|Access Insights, indexing, News, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on Webinar on Practical Classification – This Week!

The SLA Taxonomy Division presents the second webinar in their Practical Classification series. Sharon Garewal, from JSTOR, and Marcie Zaharee, from MITRE, will each describe how they use tools to build thesauri and classify data. Mark your calendar now for October 3, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST. The webinars are free to division members. SLA members may attend for $15, or contact SLA to add the division for $20. Non-members may attend for $50. Register here.

Keeping Things Clear

By Melody Smith|September 23rd, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Keeping Things Clear

In a controlled vocabulary, we strive for disambiguation, the restriction and clarification of meaning. We want to determine and clarify what exactly is meant by each term. Reading could mean a town in England or it could be a communication process. We might have the word ‘cells’, meaning biological microsystems or electrical equipment or prison housing or other things. You can have a terrorist cell. Cell is a broadly used term, and without some kind of a modifier around it, we can’t be sure what it is exactly.

Access Innovations Improves Indexing Accuracy of the CDC’s Mining Safety and Health Thesaurus

By admin|September 16th, 2013|Access Insights, Autoindexing, Featured, semantic|Comments Off on Access Innovations Improves Indexing Accuracy of the CDC’s Mining Safety and Health Thesaurus

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of an automatic semantic tagging rulebase for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Mining Safety and Health Thesaurus (MSHT). The new, state-of-the-art system increases indexing accuracy to 93 percent and provides greater access to the mining safety and health database, thereby aiding researchers and statisticians in improving safety for the mining industry.

We’re Going, Are You?

By Melody Smith|September 10th, 2013|Access Insights, Autoindexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on We’re Going, Are You?

The annual Frankfurt Book Fair will take place October 9-13, 2013 and is considered the most important marketplace for books, media, rights and licenses worldwide. The trends in publishing change faster than it is sometimes possible to keep up. The Frankfurt Book Fair brings all the new technology and innovations together in one location.

Terms and Style

By Melody Smith|September 9th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on Terms and Style

Taxonomists like to view a vocabulary as a literary work, which is more artistic when the style is consistent and cohesive. Consistency – which leads to predictability when searching or browsing – also makes it easier to avoid unintentional inclusion of multiple preferred terms for a single concept.

Access Integrity Announces Debut of ICD Tagger Technology

By Melody Smith|September 4th, 2013|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Access Integrity Announces Debut of ICD Tagger Technology

Medical billing and coding just got a whole lot easier and more efficient with the release of ICD Tagger by Albuquerque-based Access Integrity.

Some Thoughts on Vocabulary Control

By Melody Smith|September 2nd, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Some Thoughts on Vocabulary Control

A large part of what we work on in taxonomy development is vocabulary control. Our classification of knowledge involves designing controlled vocabularies and getting them into a form that we can use many, many times. We also have to do some linguistic analysis of the data to make sure that our terms are working correctly.

M.A.I. (Machine-Aided Indexer) Selected as a KMWorld 2013 Trend-Setting Product of the Year

By admin|August 26th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on M.A.I. (Machine-Aided Indexer) Selected as a KMWorld 2013 Trend-Setting Product of the Year

Access Innovations, Inc., leader in digital data organization and creator of the Data Harmony software suite, is proud to announce the inclusion of M.A.I.™ […]

Natural Language Doesn’t Always Come Naturally

By Melody Smith|August 19th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, semantic|1 Comment

One of our goals in creating taxonomies and thesauri is to express the concepts in natural language. Natural language means that you have written it the way somebody would say it. We don’t invert it.

Taxonomy is Gray

By Melody Smith|August 12th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy is Gray

From the time of Plato, philosophers have been outlining the world as they saw it and they truly built an outline; they truly built a taxonomy of the world as they saw it. The way we perceive some field, or reality in general, is our own philosophy. If we look at the world through these lenses we see it one way; we look at the world through a different set of lenses, we see it absolutely differently. That is important to realize when building a thesaurus, because people are thinking of a field in one specific way or another.