Taxodiary – indexing

Searching the Clouds

By Melody Smith|April 3rd, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Searching the Clouds

Visionet Systems, Inc. has announced the public launch of VisiOCR, a cloud-based automated mortgage document indexing and data extraction service for lenders, servicers, settlement companies, and investors.

April Fools’ Day

By Melody Smith|April 1st, 2014|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on April Fools’ Day

Today is the day of pranks, jokes, and trickery. Some people go to outlandish and extravagant efforts to pull a prank on others. But how did it get started? I went to the Library of Congress to find some answers.

Records Management in the Court System

By Melody Smith|March 26th, 2014|Access Insights, indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Records Management in the Court System

Of course records play a vital role in the litigation process as any records management professional would affirm. But what exactly is their role?

Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014

By Melody Smith|March 17th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, metadata|Comments Off on Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014

Data Harmony, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., has announced that version 3.9 of its suite of software tools will be released on March 31, 2014. Current customers will be the first to receive the new version. “Our recent enhancements provide greater search efficiency while browsing your thesaurus through callouts and hyperlinks to related and narrower terms,” said Allex Lyons, one of the Data Harmony programming team. “Dropdown menus in the search window display subject terms with a type head (autocomplete) function that assists users of any skill or experience level.”

Capturing the Past

By Melody Smith|March 7th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Capturing the Past

Infolinx System Solutions is implementing Infolinx WEB for a state library and archives managing physical records from cradle to grave.

The Devil is in the Details

By Melody Smith|March 6th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Devil is in the Details

Implementing a digital asset management (DAM) system can be challenging. Many factors pose hurdles of varying degrees: asset ingestion, building the database, relevant and descriptive metadata, to name a few. It is key to make the assets descriptive enough to make them worth the time to search and find them.

Measures to Findability

By Melody Smith|March 5th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Measures to Findability

Digital asset management (DAM) is one of those things that confuses people, which discourages them from addressing it. Kind of like those tasks we all put off until we can no longer justify ignoring them. DAM brings with it extra policy, added expenses, and more required training for an already overloaded staff. So why do we do it?

Webinar Address Authority Files

By Melody Smith|March 4th, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Webinar Address Authority Files

The American Society for Indexing is hosting a webinar titled - Creating Name Authority Files for Large Indexing Projects. Leading the event is Linda Dunn from Dunn Information Organization. Linda has been a periodical indexer for over thirty years and has been interested in authority files since she began indexing. Through her work with multiple databases she has become familiar with many types of authority files both proprietary and open source.

Streamlining Findability

By Melody Smith|February 28th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Streamlining Findability

Processes like e-discovery are time-consuming and costly. No one likes paying lawyers $500 an hour to retrieve documents rather than build your company’s defenses. A proactive records management strategy can make information governance central.

Digitizing Government Records

By Melody Smith|February 26th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Digitizing Government Records

The first modern Land Record Management and Information System (LRMIS) center is working in Taxila tehsil. All land records of the entire tehsil will be digitized, which will create conveniences in transfer of properties and getting revenue documents.