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The Father of Taxonomy
The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active biological society. Founded in 1788 by Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828), who was its first President. The Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological, and library collections have been in its keeping since 1829. These unique collections are…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Delivers Indexing System for PLI
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the release of a new document indexing and repository system for the Practising Law Institute (PLI). PLI contracted Access Innovations, Inc. to create an Indexing Platform and Taxonomy Term Management system as an integrated solution. In addition, PLI sought to enhance its…
Read MoreTaxonomy’s Role in Climate Change
The European Commission’s expert group on sustainable finance recently published its final recommendations for a taxonomy of environmentally sustainable activities, which is at the heart of the European Union executive’s plan to harness the finance sector for its fight against climate change. “For the taxonomy to work in practice, investors will need data about company…
Read MoreNet Neutrality Part Way?
There has been a lot of talk about net neutrality. Those for and those against are all vocal. But what exactly is net neutrality? Net neutrality is the principle that individuals should be free to access all content and applications equally, regardless of the source, without Internet Service Providers (ISP) discriminating against specific online services…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Completes Mapping Engagement with EDO
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the successful completion of a data taxonomy project with leading data analytics company EDO Inc., who contracted with Access Innovations to build a proprietary taxonomy to enable marketers to easily search, view, and compare TV advertisements. The project required Access Innovations, Inc.…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. and the American Psychological Association announce the deployment of a New MAI System
Access Innovations, Inc., the provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the deployment of a new Machine Aided Indexing (M.A.I.®) system for the American Psychological Association (APA). The goal of this new system is to provide more consistent and efficient indexing of the content of the PsycINFO database, which currently comprises more…
Read MoreClassifying the Bards and the Bangles?
Taxonomies do not belong to one science or interest. They can be applied anywhere from a grocery store to plant anatomy to hip hop music? A music fan (err geek) decided to compare the vocabulary of the literary world’s giant, Shakespeare, to those of famous hip hop artists. Shakespeare’s vocabulary across his entire corpus is said…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Enhances Search on McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce a recently completed project with McGraw-Hill to create a series of robust taxonomies that will support the back end of AccessEngineering. These taxonomies will improve search functionality for those interested in AccessEngineering’s educational materials. During the course of the project, three taxonomies were…
Read MoreClass What?
How would you organize all the world’s information? The breadth and width of that content would take your breath away. Wouldn’t it be the same as Wikipedia? During the early part of its development, Wikidata used a hierarchical taxonomy to organize its data entries. The system was called GND—a German initialism, Gemeinsame Normdatei, which translates to “Integrated Authority…
Read MoreOrigin of Band Names
Have you ever wondered where musical groups like Pink Floyd or Foo Fighters got the inspiration for their band names? You aren’t alone. One aspect of the music world that has always interested me is the process of choosing a band name or moniker. Often when you ask musicians how they arrived at their choice,…
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