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Our Top Information Industry Trends of 2015
The Demise of the “Physical Book” has been exaggerated The Information Industry has no single central meeting Taxonomies are used in websites but not in search Analytics are booming. Changing information landscape Google Scholar Semantics, Linked Data, and the cloud Boomers are not retiring The weather in Albuquerque is cold and overcast with a chance…
Read MoreThe Ghosts of Concepts Future
The bell struck twelve. The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. … It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from…
Read MoreUsing Taxonomies to Organize Associations
as·so·ci·a·tion (ə-sō′sē-ā′shən) We use taxonomies and ontologies to organize document collections. But controlled vocabularies (of a sort) are also used to organize the aisles in a grocery or hardware store, clothes in the closet, and your kitchen. In the last two cases, the subject matter expert (SME) is definitely you! If you are more comfortable…
Read MoreTalk About the Weather
The weather professionals have been puffed up and posturing with graphs, maps and all their Doppler mechanisms for several weeks now trying to predict what the winter of 2015-16 will be like. Will there be blizzards like we’ve never seen? Will there be ice storms that shut down cities, airports and interstates? Or will it…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Divests NICEM Information Assets
Access Innovations is proud to announce the sale of its publishing arm, the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) to Graham Carter-Dimmock. Graham’s expertise and experience includes audio and video production, localization and marketing, database design and electronic publishing. He has been involved in NICEM project development on several occasions over the years. NICEM…
Read MoreAre You a Traditionalist?
When I say Thanksgiving, do you immediately think of a basted, golden brown bird on a large platter adorned with oranges, cranberries and sage? Maybe you think of a juicy oven-roasted ham bearing the traditional clove and pineapple scored design baked into its caramelized goodness? Traditional Thanksgiving Food – https://pixabay.com/en/celebration-christmas-cuisine-315079/ Thanksgiving seems a holiday that’s as…
Read MoreNational Association of Government Web Professionals (NAGW) 2015 Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, NM, September 23-25, 2015
Conveniently held in our hometown of Albuquerque, the program for the National Association of Government Web Professionals (NAGW) 2015 Annual Conference was sufficiently compelling to warrant our participation. Two of us attended sessions, receptions, and networked with an enthusiastic group of professionals. A first observation is in the name. NAGW members prefer “Web Professionals” over…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Calls for Beta Testers for Ontology Master
Access Innovations is proud to announce that it has reached the testing phase on its latest product, Ontology Master (OM). This adds to their current lineup of Data Harmony software offerings, including Thesaurus Master, MAIstro, and the Data Harmony Suite. Ontologies are a growing trend in the information science industry. They are intended to provide…
Read MoreUsing N-grams to discover taxonomy terms
Words that occur together frequently are likely to encode important concepts. Therefore, simply sorting a list of phrases according to the frequency of occurrence in text is an automatic way of capturing important concepts associated with that subject. Word order is important since meaning tends to be associated with order. Thus, word order must be…
Read MoreWhat is JATS and Why Should I Care
Search for “jats” and you will find two very distinct concepts: 14th Murrays Jat Lancers (Risaldar Major) by AC Lovett (1862-1919).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jat_people This post doesn’t discuss the Jats, a race of people, interesting as they are. This post covers information tagging, specifically a specialized list of xml elements for journal articles. Problem and need Interoperability…
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