Taxodiary – indexing

Indexing for the Semantic Web

By Melody Smith|May 27th, 2016|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Indexing for the Semantic Web

Diffbot announces a new structured database that can automatically sort the web into human-like categories of knowledge. Marketing Land brought this news to our attention in their […]

My Kind of Library

By Melody Smith|May 24th, 2016|indexing, News|Comments Off on My Kind of Library

I love books, don’t get me wrong. But a library of wine? That is the newest library on the Cornell campus and it contains […]

Preserving Time and History

By Melody Smith|May 24th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Preserving Time and History

The Associated Press (AP) has turned to digital preservation specialist Preservica to safeguard its corporate records and news wire services. CMS Wire brought this interesting information […]

Recent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access

By admin|May 19th, 2016|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Recent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has been acquired by Elsevier with the promise that it will be further developed with Mendeley, Elsevier’s scholarly […]

Strengthening the Data

By admin|May 12th, 2016|indexing, News|Comments Off on Strengthening the Data

A leading index of open-access journals may shrink by more than one-quarter after an effort to exclude questionable and inactive publishers. This interesting information came […]

New Partnership Increases Access

By Melody Smith|May 9th, 2016|indexing, News, reference, search|Comments Off on New Partnership Increases Access

A new partnership was recently announced between 1science and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Together they will provide academic libraries access to a vast number […]

Finding the Data

By Melody Smith|May 3rd, 2016|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Finding the Data

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has acquired GlobalSpec, a leading source of news, data and analytics for the global engineering and […]

Searching for Findability

By Melody Smith|May 3rd, 2016|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Searching for Findability

The Enterprise Search and Findability Survey 2016 has been launched and your participation is invited. Findwise has been running this survey annually since 2012 to help […]

One More Time With Feeling

By admin|May 2nd, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on One More Time With Feeling

In keeping with the music theme from last week’s post about naming music groups, and in light of recent events associated with Prince’s death, as well as the American Libraries Associations Preservation Week, let’s discuss what happens when archival and general search produces bad results. […]

New Additions to EBSCO’s Digital Archives

By admin|April 28th, 2016|indexing, metadata, News, reference|Comments Off on New Additions to EBSCO’s Digital Archives

Digital magazine archives from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) are now available for five Time Inc. brands, including the complete, extensive and searchable digital versions […]