Taxodiary – indexing

Telling Your Own Story

By Melody Smith|September 10th, 2013|indexing, News|Comments Off on Telling Your Own Story

Personal Archiving - Preserving Our Digital Heritage is a new release addressing digital archiving that may just be the first of its kind. This multi-authored work offers robust explorations of the emerging field of personal digital archiving. Edited by Donald T. Hawkins, the contributors cover a range of innovative projects and practical topics. Some of those include archiving individual and family histories, social media and email applications, academic research projects and Library of Congress initiatives. Hawkins and his contributors are passionate about personal archiving and that is obvious in this must-read. Information Today brought this topic to our attention in their review of "Personal Archiving."

Recording the Past

By Melody Smith|September 9th, 2013|indexing, News|Comments Off on Recording the Past

At the recent Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, the educational session addressed military archives best practice in the 21st century. The focus on the relevance and value of military archives to multidisciplinary research topics led into issues of processing massive amounts of digital records from the war in Iraq using innovative management and techniques.

Government Agencies Looking for Big Data Solutions

By Melody Smith|September 9th, 2013|indexing, metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Government Agencies Looking for Big Data Solutions

The national archives for managing federal records, NARA, maintains more than 12 billion pages of physical records, 42 million photographs, and 500 terabytes of electronic records. Now that puts a new perspective on big data.

Hometown Memories Online

By Melody Smith|September 5th, 2013|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Hometown Memories Online

I was reading my hometown paper today online. I am from a small town in Seymour, Indiana. In fact, "the small town" referred to in John Mellencamp's so-named 80's hit. The leading story was about digitizing records to make search work faster and with more comprehensive results. These deja vu moments almost surprise me in a very pleasing sort of way. It is like the universe is saying, "you made the right choices."

New Reporting System for Law Enforcement

By Melody Smith|September 5th, 2013|indexing, News, Technology|Comments Off on New Reporting System for Law Enforcement

The Hudson Police Department’s new online reporting system, Coplogic, will be launching next week. This comes after much delay from the original planned December launch, but is welcomed with great anticipation.

Access Integrity Announces Debut of ICD Tagger Technology

By Melody Smith|September 4th, 2013|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Access Integrity Announces Debut of ICD Tagger Technology

Medical billing and coding just got a whole lot easier and more efficient with the release of ICD Tagger by Albuquerque-based Access Integrity.

Other Duties As Assigned

By Melody Smith|August 19th, 2013|indexing, News|Comments Off on Other Duties As Assigned

Jay Trainer is the new executive for agency services at the National Archives and Records Administration. What a mouthful of a job title and his job reflects the same. Trainer oversees five programs that manage billions of information sources from across all three branches of the government.

Proper Indexing Helps Queries

By Melody Smith|August 13th, 2013|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Proper Indexing Helps Queries

TSO was selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data. TSO is part of the Williams Lea group and their product is the OpenUp platform.

Document Management with Solid Support

By Melody Smith|August 9th, 2013|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Document Management with Solid Support

BMI Imaging Systems will be demonstrating a variety of document and records management solutions that increase the efficiency of government and corporate record keeping processes at the Las Vegas, Nevada Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) 2013 conference.

Handling Storage and Access Issues

By Melody Smith|July 25th, 2013|indexing, News, storage|Comments Off on Handling Storage and Access Issues

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled solutions and services to help enterprises adopt cloud computing to address the oh so familiar demands of big data, access, etc. This interesting news was found on Silicon India in their article, “Hitachi Unveils Cloud Solutions And Services.”