Taxodiary – Standards

New Vocabularies Added to Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies

By Melody Smith|January 5th, 2011|News, semantic, Standards|Comments Off on New Vocabularies Added to Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies

In an announcement from the Library of Congress, they share their pleasure in making available new vocabularies from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service, which provides access to Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as Linked Data. The Authorities and Vocabularies web service was first made available in May 2009 and offered the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Library's initial entry into the Linked Data movement.

Australia Planning an Open Source Census

By Melody Smith|December 29th, 2010|News, Standards|Comments Off on Australia Planning an Open Source Census

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is preparing for a massive change to its use of data standards, with plans to move to open source formats for next year.

Standards Help Maintain Security in the Clouds

By Melody Smith|December 28th, 2010|News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards Help Maintain Security in the Clouds

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launched revision 1.1 of the CCM Security Controls Matrix, which is designed to provide fundamental security principles to guide cloud vendors and to assist prospective cloud customers in assessing the overall security risk of a cloud provider.

Offshore Keyboarding — How to Choose, What to Look For

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, metadata, Standards|Comments Off on Offshore Keyboarding — How to Choose, What to Look For

As more and more people look into the computerization of their database, whether the internal files are bibliographic or full text, they quickly realize that building a database is highly labor-intensive.

The Notation Module in Thesaurus Design: An innovative view of Thesaurus Hierarchies

By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Notation Module in Thesaurus Design: An innovative view of Thesaurus Hierarchies

by Scott Denning

Traditional thesaurus design has necessarily been a matter of alphabetization of the terms. While different views – permuted, hierarchical, rotated – offer […]

White House Sets High Goals for Digital Rules

By Melody Smith|December 7th, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on White House Sets High Goals for Digital Rules

The White House is releasing guidance that will promote electronic dockets for rulemaking. The result will be a living document open to public comment during an event hosted by the Brooking Institution in Washington, D.C.

DocuWare Maintains Quality Management System

By Melody Smith|December 7th, 2010|News, Standards|Comments Off on DocuWare Maintains Quality Management System

DocuWare recently announced that they have applied for and received ISO 9001 recertification in 2010. The main requirement for certification is inplace methods and processes to prevent errors and maintaining a seamless Quality Management System.

Master Data Management is Coming to Healthcare

By Melody Smith|November 30th, 2010|Business Intelligence, indexing, metadata, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Master Data Management is Coming to Healthcare

Healthcare is changing, both in patient treatment and the government’s role in regulation and reimbursement. This makes the use of data, business intelligence and analytics tools ever more important.

Integration Allows New Speech Analytics

By Melody Smith|November 24th, 2010|Business Intelligence, indexing, News, Standards, storage|Comments Off on Integration Allows New Speech Analytics

Nexidia has integrated Nexidia Capture and Nexidia Scan into Cisco's new media capture platform. Cisco's media capture platform is an open-standards, network-based solution that provides recording, playback, live streaming, and storage of media, including audio and video, with rich metadata to facilitate easy use. This integration allows Cisco customers the ability to create real-time speech alerting applications and the power to perform speech analytics with archived audio.

Open Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region

By Melody Smith|November 22nd, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on Open Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region

Recently, several very well known organizations announced that they had formed Asia Cloud Computing Association (Asia Cloud), an open collaboration forum based in the Asia Pacific region.