Semantic Web and Ontologies

The semantic web, or web 3.0, is often quoted as the next phase of the Internet. The semantic web was envisioned as a highly interconnected network of data that could be easily accessed and understood by any desktop or handheld machine. The future was to be full of intelligent software agents that would head out on…

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COVID-19 Mini Thesaurus Available

Access Innovations has created a COVID-19 mini-thesaurus and it is freely available to everyone. It can be downloaded here. This valuable resource will help those professionals who are seeking to comprehensively search for information about COVID-19 targets. As new areas of scientific research, like COVID-19, rapidly emerge and evolve, it is important to incorporate proper…

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Remembering

In the United States, today is celebrated as Memorial Day. It is a federal holiday that originated for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces. The holiday originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic established it as a time for…

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The Category of Pandemics

As information science professionals, we know that taxonomies exist everywhere. In the grocery store aisles, in libraries as the Dewey Decimal Classification system and of course online taxonomies on retail or informational websites – to name just a few. So as we are all experiencing our own personal journeys through this COVID-19 pandemic, where are…

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Reasoning with Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced by leaps and bounds and continues to do so. Even though machine learning is part of the same emerging technology family, it is starting to hit the wall of its abilities. But never fear, a new technology is waiting in the wings. Machine learning systems can learn by themselves from…

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Classification and Taxonomies

Taxonomies and classification. These two terminologies are frequently used interchangeably but they are not the same thing. It could be very confusing to understand the difference between taxonomy and classification, yet it is very important to do so. Understanding the similarities and the differences could help clear the confusion. Taxonomy is the discipline of classifying something,…

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codemantra and Access Innovations, Inc., Announce Strategic Partnership

Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce an exciting new collaboration with codemantra, an expert in increasing the value of digital documents through their software platforms and content services. Access Innovations and codemantra seek to foster a partnership in which they can provide their clients with necessary tools to…

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Technologies of Tomorrow

Emerging technologies is a term being thrown a lot these days. Though the term appears to be self-explanatory, there are many lists being created and shared that are selecting the technologies that should be getting attention by businesses. To keep up with the rapid innovation and disruption happening across all industries and stay ahead of…

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Humans in Classification

Humans, as we know them today, are the only extant members of Hominina clade (or human clade), a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes. Their characteristics are erect posture and bipedal locomotion, manual dexterity and increased tool use, and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains. Here is where I veer a little off track or even off topic.…

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Access Innovations, Inc. and Data Conversion Laboratory Align Technology Solutions to Support Taxonomy Development and Content Structure

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, and Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in structured data and content transformations, today announce a new partnership for content-centric organizations. Together, DCL and Access Innovations provide a complete solution to improve the organization, delivery, and retrieval of content across the content supply chain. “This…

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