Segue is an odd word. It's conjugated versions defy normal grammar and spelling rules, i.e. segueing, segued, etc. Pronunciation is a whole new challenge as many understand the meaning and use it in day to day conversation, but when it comes time to spell it -- that is a whole different story.
The American Historical Association (AHA) recently put together a draft revision of its taxonomy of the discipline and is inviting comment from members as it moves toward a final form of the document. The deadline for comment is September 30.
If you aren't attending the Taxonomy Boot Camp, maybe you will find this conference a little closer to your interests. "The Library as Publisher: Details, Practice, and Potential Outcomes" addresses the creation of new content sets by virtue of a university open access repository, or putting together custom courseware and how this practice is turning many libraries into de facto publishers. This is actually a pre-conference to the Charleston Conference in...you guessed it, Charleston, South Carolina.
Many linguist believe that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn and not because of the pronunciation challenges, but for the exceptions to every rule. For us word geeks, this is more than just humorous, it is educational (and a bit frustrating). This was found in the blog post, "Why is today the first, not the oneth?" in the blog, Wordlady.
A peek into the past is what Words in Time and Place provides its readers. Exploring the language and terminology of days gone by and using the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary as the source.
The increase in social media content offers everyone new challenges and opportunities. That is no different for taxonomists. Now they can define our own terms and hashtags as a basis for findability. This is the epitome of content tagging.
fluid Operations has released version 5.5 of Information Workbench and eCloudManager.
We talk a lot about taxonomy in the realm of indexing organizational information against a solid and strong taxonomy built within standards so that content is found easily. It is easy sometimes to forget that taxonomy originated with science. Classification of animals, plants, and other organisms into appropriate categories for easy reference. eBird is a traditional genus-species kind of taxonomy except for the part about being online and searchable.