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Automation Integration

By Melody Smith | March 10, 2015

Infolinx System Solutions is integrating Kofax Capture into their enterprise class Infolinx WEB application. This latest integration extends solution functionality by automating and accelerating business processes. The integration will be available as an add-on to all Infolinx WEB editions.

Taxonomy and Tagging in SharePoint Webinar

By Melody Smith | March 9, 2015

Another learning opportunity for corporate librarians or information architects or those working on creating a corporate taxonomy or a managed metadata project in SharePoint. This webinar is focused on those struggling with the challenge of tagging documents with relevant metadata in SharePoint or dealing with complaints about the difficulty in searching content and documents in SharePoint.

Second Chance at Learning Opportunity

By Melody Smith | March 5, 2015

This opportunity for learning is much like a mulligan in golf. The three-part webinar series on “Practical Taxonomy Creation” by Heather Hedden, was actually held in January, but they were recorded and are available for a replay purchase.

Classifying Order

By Melody Smith | February 25, 2015

Standards are important for many reasons. Consistency creates quality and standards create consistency. Professional standards for archival descriptions involve a hierarchical structure. This ensures that users will find your archival database easy to navigate.

Visualizing History

By Melody Smith | February 11, 2015

In a series of papers studying the history of American innovation, Mikko Packalen at the University of Waterloo and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, indexed every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years. Why, you ask? They wanted to measure the significance of a new invention.

Rock, Paper, Digital?

By Melody Smith | January 16, 2015

As another example of digital replacing paper, the Oneida County District Attorney’s Office, the first in New York state, is very close to going paperless.

Packrats Unite

By Melody Smith | January 13, 2015

Here we are at the beginning of a new year. Resolutions aside, it is great time to take inventory of your records and evaluate your records management plan.

Are You My Mummy?

By Melody Smith | January 6, 2015

Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. The Animal Mummy Database search interface provides a good example of taxonomic facets. You can browse by Animal Type, Wrapping Type, or Museum.

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

By Melody Smith | January 5, 2015

Taxonomies and classifications are not only helpful, but critical to making your content findable. This is true regardless of the topic or data – even when it is beer.

Common Factors

By Melody Smith | January 2, 2015

What do legal jurisdictions and leprechauns have in common? More than one might think. In the world of classification, words like extinct and endangered could be applied to both and many more genres.