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Digital Commons Library – Open and Free
The recent announcement of the Digital Commons Community Library provides a way of exploring bepress’s scholarly communication resources by subject matter — free and open access.
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Learning is not just an action or a verb. Learning can be an urge, desire, and passion for many. Information seeking is not something taught in grade school; it is something ingrained in our DNA.
Read MoreSeasonal Classification
In tune with the season, the American Museum of Natural History is featuring a scitification classification exercise where they are sharing one scientific find each day. On the first of the twelve days, a partridge in a book of taxonomy.
Read MoreThe Gift of SMEs
A typical thesaurus construction project for a scholarly publisher, policy clearinghouse, medical institution, or any other client with a technical vocabulary involves the input of a number of stakeholders.
Read MoreReference Works Available
Information Services & Use, a highly respected journal in the area of information science and technology, is sharing in their latest issue, a selection of papers presented at the 9th conference of Academic Publishing in Europe earlier in 2014, combined with a selection of papers of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing mid-year in Greece.
Read MoreNon-Impressive Word of the Year
In a sign of the times though I am not entirely certain it is a good one, the word of the year is a term used in electronic cigarette smoking.
Read MoreThe Perfect Gift
Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? The book, Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice, would be very relevant to the development of cultural and historical taxonomies and thesauri. The way the terms are chosen and organized can have a strong effect on people’s perception of cultures and historical events. So for the history buff or word geek on your shopping list, this might just be what you, or they, need.
Read MoreReviving the Past
Digitizing documents is a daunting task, especially when those documents are ancient.
Read MoreMoving Away from the Book
When library design consultant, Aaron Schmidt, declared on Twitter that when creating logos and visual identity packages for libraries he wanted no likenesses of books, it might have been an “ah ha” moment for many.
Read MoreKnowledge Manager Position Available
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
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