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Marjorie M.K. Hlava to Receive the John Cotton Dana Award from the Special Libraries Association
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce that its president and founder, Marjorie M.K. Hlava, has been named the recipient of the highest honor given by the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the John Cotton Dana Award. Named for the founder and original president of SLA, this prestigious honor recognizes a lifetime of achievement in the…
Read MoreCloudy with a chance of crab cakes
(Note: Back in November of 2013, TaxoDiary published the post “A Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification“, about the cloud formation tentatively labeled as Asperatus undulatus and the quest to achieve an official classification for it. The article below, which first appeared in the Apalachicola Times on April 8, 2015, focuses on matters of terminology concerning…
Read MoreTo Cap or Not to Cap?
Every once in a while, the issue of capitalization in taxonomies and thesauri pops up. Some of us in taxonomy land believe that it does make a difference what capitalization (versus lower case) style you use. We just don’t necessarily agree what that style should be.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Releases Data Harmony® Version 3.10
The Data Harmony Suite provides content management solutions to improve information organization by systematically applying a taxonomy or thesaurus in total integration, with patented content extraction methods. MAIstro™, the award-winning flagship software module of the Data Harmony product line, combines Thesaurus Master® (for taxonomy creation and maintenance) with M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer) for interactive text analysis and better subject tagging. XIS® (XML Intranet System) offers powerful content management and metadata creation tools and completes the Data Harmony Suite.
Read MoreTaxonomy Blogs – The Big Picture
We who blog on TaxoDiary know that it’s not the only blog that has to do with taxonomies and such. There are a few others out in cyberspace, and each has its own character. Let’s take a look at some of them, starting with what we know best.
Read MoreClick Three Times?
Every now and then, we hear or read the advice that taxonomies should be no more than three levels deep. The reason given is what’s commonly known in the web design world as the three-click rule. Supposedly, users do not have the patience to find information on a website using any more than three clicks of a mouse. Ergo, navigation hierarchies and similar structures are expected to honor this limitation by keeping the entire pool at kiddie depth.
Read MoreAlice Redmond-Neal Crosses the 30,000-Abstract Threshold for IFEBP and Access Innovations, Inc.
Access Innovations, Inc. is proud to announce that one of its devoted staff members has crossed a large indexing and abstracting milestone.
Read MoreA Short Roundup of Recent Taxonomy Books
Over the past couple of decades, the field of knowledge organization systems (such as taxonomies and thesauri) has matured. This maturation has led KOS experts to write books that consolidate and share the theories, insights, and techniques that have emerged. Below is a roundup of some of the more recent books in the area of taxonomies and related knowledge organization systems.
Read MoreUsing Taxonomy to Save a Butterfly
The monarch butterfly is a beautiful sight, whether it’s fluttering through a garden or resting on a flower. Understandably admired, it’s the state insect of Alabama, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, and Texas. It’s also the state butterfly of Vermont and West Virginia.
Read MoreHeather Kotula Named Director of Communications at Access Innovations, Inc.
Access Innovations, Inc. is happy to announce an important change to its corporate structure, a change designed to best represent the talents of their staff.
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