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Lucene Revolution — Conference Dedicated to Open Source Enterprise Search
Apache Lucene and Solr open source search technologies are playing host to the first-ever conference in the US devoted to open source search. The conference will take place October 7-8, 2010 at the Hyatt Harborside, Boston, Massachusetts.
Read MoreFall Conferences Address Taxonomy & Knowledge Management
Joint conferences this fall in Washington D.C. offer networking and good learning opportunities.
Read MoreTaxonomies — Here, There, Everywhere
I went to one of my favorite bookstores the other day. I have been awaiting the release of E. E. Knight’s Winter Duty. Looking at the overhead signs for sections, I realized that this is the beginning of a taxonomy….My realization that the bookstore is using a taxonomy made me realize that taxonomies are merely a way of grouping information together in a way that is relevant to the user.
Read MoreThe Triumphant Ascendance of the Librarian
Librarians are hoarders with conventional and intellectually-provincial minds and authors struggle to think outside the boxes that librarians keep foisting upon the academic disciplines within which they both operate.
Read MoreNISO Members – Don’t Forget To Vote
Voting for the ballot on standard ISO/FDIS 24614-1, Language resource management -Word segmentation of written texts — Part 1: Basic concepts and general principles is coming to a close.
Read MoreOne-Stop Shopping For Ontology Projects
A good source for researchers, ontologists, or just those curious folks in the business who want to know what else is going on out there.
Read MoreBeijing Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources
OntoLex workshop, scheduled for August 21-22, 2010 in Beijing, is designed to address lexicographers, researchers, ontologists and practitioners.
Read MoreA New Thesaurus for Online Scholarly Publications
Access Innovations, Inc. and the American Institute of Physics announce a new thesaurus for online scholarly publications that allows automatic indexing of peer-reviewed articles and enhanced online publication search.
Read MoreGlossaries, Taxonomies and Guides – Just Another Day at Work
Taxonomist Mary Chitty has compiled a comprehensive Biopharmaceutical Glossary website complete with taxonomies and guides.
Read MoreLost In Translation
Different cognitive paths are driven by the language we speak and our culture drives the way we organize and categorize information. These differences will lead us to very different discoveries and conclusions.
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