Identifying the Contributors

By |May 6th, 2014|Access Insights, indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Identifying the Contributors

Collaboration is a key component of research. Original research papers with a single author are — particularly in the life sciences — a vanishing breed. This makes it difficult to identify author contributions and acknowledgements, as well as to mine any data from the unstructured information.

Document Management is Key

By |May 2nd, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Document Management is Key

Infolinx System Solutions has partnered with Bizquip Business Solutions and in turn expanded its global presence. Now integrated with ECM products like Microsoft SharePoint® and Laserfiche, the Infolinx application provides clients with a contemporary technology platform, a browser agnostic application interface, expanded records request capability, and improved reporting functionality.

The Supposed Advantages of Statistical Indexing

By |April 28th, 2014|Access Insights, Autoindexing, Featured, indexing|Comments Off on The Supposed Advantages of Statistical Indexing

I would like to make some observations about statistics-based categorization and search, and about the advantages that their proponents claim. First of all, statistics-based co-occurrence approaches do have their place. For wide-ranging bodies of text such as email archives and social media exchanges, and for assessing the nature of an unknown collection of documents, a well-defined collection of concepts covering a pre-determined area of study and practice is not possible. For lack of this foundation, and for lack of other practical approaches, attempts at analysis fall back on less-than -ideal mathematical approaches.

How did we improve Data Harmony documentation for the 3.9 software release?

By |April 24th, 2014|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on How did we improve Data Harmony documentation for the 3.9 software release?

In 2014, we improved the instruction manuals significantly – to be more comprehensive without being harder on the eyes. We upgraded the documentation to be even clearer, more consistent and complete than before, while removing extraneous material.

Digitizing Microscopic Creatures

By |April 18th, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Digitizing Microscopic Creatures

The soil fauna collection is housed in the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Görlitz. Like most other natural history museums, the tiny creatures are embedded in a water-soluble medium and mounted on slides to be studied under a light microscope, described in minute detail, accurately identified and catalogued. But with this method, the specimens only have a limited lifespan, and entire collections are at risk.

The Evolution of Science

By |April 16th, 2014|Autoindexing, indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Evolution of Science

Science is all about evolution and that includes the library of science, specifically the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and their thesaurus. With more than 10,700 Subject Area terms, they use the thesaurus to index articles and provide useful links to related papers, enhanced search functions, and PLOS ONE - an e-journal platform with subject area browsing capability made possible by the PLOS thesaurus.