Taxodiary – Access Insights

Selecting Hardware and Software

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, metadata, Technology|Comments Off on Selecting Hardware and Software

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava
First published in Information Today, Vol. 1, Issue 4 (April 1984).

People are talking endlessly these days about the selection of hardware and […]

Good Indexing Means Good Retrieval

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing|Comments Off on Good Indexing Means Good Retrieval

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava
First published in Information Today

So far this column has covered design considerations for the building of a database. Editorial guidelines have […]

File Design: Those Important First Steps

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, metadata, storage, Technology|1 Comment

By Marjorie M.K. Hlava
First published in Information Today

In my first column, we discussed general editorial and file size considerations. This column discusses the file […]

Inhouse Database Marketing

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Business strategy, metadata|1 Comment

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava

Marketing an inhouse file is similar to marketing any database. Whether the file is commercial or inhouse, there are two main […]

Database Production: Determining the Cost

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, metadata, reference|Comments Off on Database Production: Determining the Cost

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava
Fiirst published as part of Information Today’s Private Files Series, Volume 1, Issue 7.

The costs of database production are extremely variable […]

Database Building Options and Costs

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, metadata, reference|Comments Off on Database Building Options and Costs

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava

Note: This white paper was first published as part of Information Today’s Private Files Series, Volume 1, Issue 7.

People often comment […]

Cross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing, reference|Comments Off on Cross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French

Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc.
Dr. Gerold Belonogov, Professor and Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia
Dr. Boris Kuznetsov, Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, […]

OWL Export Module: Data Harmony for the Semantic Web

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on OWL Export Module: Data Harmony for the Semantic Web

by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO of Access Innovations, Inc.

Access Innovations, Inc.What do you make of “198”? You could assume a number. Computer applications […]

What Can You Do with XML Today?

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, metadata, Taxonomy|1 Comment

by Jay Ven Eman
Interest in Extensible Markup Language (XML) rivals the press coverage the World Wide Web received at the turn of the Millennium. […]

Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Thesaurus with Thesaurus Master or MAIstro

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Term lists|1 Comment

by Barbara Gilles, Access Innovations thesaurian

Observing the practices described below for building a thesaurus will help ensure:

Effective searches to enable actual retrieval
A rich and […]