By Melody Smith|April 30th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classifying Science
The INIS (International Nuclear Information System) Thesaurus is a valuable and useful product used by the INIS Secretariat and Member States to index documents for input into the INIS Collection and to facilitate information retrieval for global users of the collection.
By Melody Smith|April 29th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Managing Your Assets
Extensis has released their modular digital asset management (DAM) system, Extensis Portfolio, with promises of transforming the user experience.
By Melody Smith|April 28th, 2015|Autoindexing, indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Credit Where Credit is Due
No one will argue how helpful auto-classification or auto-indexing is to the world of making content findable. This interesting topic came from the blog post, “Jet Packs, Cars That Drive Themselves, and Autoclassification” from Earley & Associates.
By Melody Smith|April 15th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Enhancing the Results
Content Analyst has released Cerebrant, a SaaS-based discovery platform. Cerebrant enables users to quickly and effectively find the most relevant internal and external content.
By Melody Smith|April 14th, 2015|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Indexing Conference Offers More
The American Society for Indexing (ASI) is once again hosting their annual conference, this time in Seattle, Washington. This comprehensive event is scheduled for April 29-May 1, 2015 and is considered the primary source for information and education about indexing.
By Melody Smith|April 10th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on More Open Access Journals
The Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies (JCMS) has an overall focus on the care and exhibition of collection items. The scope thus includes conservation science, artefact studies, restoration, museum studies, environment studies, collection management and curation.
By Melody Smith|April 8th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Giving Back
Student and former teacher, Elizabeth Charlton, who completed her Diploma in Records and Information Management with the Open Polytechnic last year, has been awarded the Ian McLean Wards Scholarship and plans to put it to good use.
By Melody Smith|March 19th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Learn More About Making Content Usable
The "Making Content Portable, Making It Usable" webinar is scheduled for March 27th. Early bird registration discount ends on Friday, March 20th.
By Melody Smith|March 17th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Finding the Lost
Technology continues to advance on a daily basis. What was wondrously new yesterday will seem archaic in just a few months. This “advancement” of technology has brought information to our fingertips at a faster speed than ever before and in unbelievable quantities.
By Melody Smith|March 11th, 2015|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Digital Commons Library – Open and Free
The recent announcement of the Digital Commons Community Library provides a way of exploring bepress’s scholarly communication resources by subject matter -- free and open access.