Taxodiary – Taxonomy

Plan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013

By Melody Smith|January 3rd, 2013|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Plan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013

Registration is now open for the Ninth Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting. Sessions will be held February 18-20, 2013 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DHUG meeting focuses on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which supports user organization of their information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.

Mobile Taxonomy Launched

By Melody Smith|January 3rd, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Mobile Taxonomy Launched

Earley & Associates (E&A) have released Information Architecture (IA) and indexing services for mobile application providers. Their mobile content architecture services address taxonomy development, content tagging, and user interface design.

Taxonomies and Metadata

By Melody Smith|December 17th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomies and Metadata

Let’s talk about metadata a little bit. This is to give you a broad overview so that you know how to build those taxonomies. Metadata is data about data, which means it is really information about information. If you look at the metadata standards world and especially the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, it has suddenly taken flight again. It’s really interesting. Dublin Core is 10 years old or so and has suddenly become more relevant again.

‘Twas the night before Boot Camp

By Melody Smith|December 6th, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on ‘Twas the night before Boot Camp

‘Twas the night before Boot Camp And I thought I should know Pecha Kucha – what is it? Which way to go?

Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013!

By Melody Smith|December 3rd, 2012|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013!

Here is a sneak peek at two of the in-depth case studies you will hear about during the meeting: Developing the PLOS Thesaurus: Jonas Dupuich of PLOS will tell the story of how PLOS identified the need to improve its thesaurus, completed the task of updating the thesaurus, and implemented services to leverage the thesaurus throughout the organization in partnership with Access Innovations. Expect to hear about lessons learned, best practices, and a glance at how PLOS is moving forward from here.

Mark Your Calendars

By Melody Smith|November 21st, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Mark Your Calendars

The 2013 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Leadership Summit is scheduled for February 6-9, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. Plan today to join SLA unit leaders, the SLA Board of Directors and headquarters staff at this exciting event.

Adopting and Adapting Existing Word Lists and Taxonomies

By Melody Smith|November 19th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Adopting and Adapting Existing Word Lists and Taxonomies

In traditional taxonomy construction, you approach the body of knowledge, head for your ivory tower with its closed room and decide on the general structure of the field or discipline. From that single point, or perhaps multiple points, of knowledge, you are going to design a completely new taxonomy … and every now and then that works.

Marjorie Hlava Presents Keynote Speech at 23rd Annual SIG/CR Workshop

By Melody Smith|November 16th, 2012|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Marjorie Hlava Presents Keynote Speech at 23rd Annual SIG/CR Workshop

On October 26, 2012, Access Innovations, Inc. president Marjorie M.K. Hlava presented an afternoon keynote speech at the 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, part of the American Society for Information Science and Technology's 75th annual meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Financial Taxonomy Consistency

By Melody Smith|November 16th, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Financial Taxonomy Consistency

The European accounting body plans to increase efforts to improve electronic scanning of company reports. This comes after criticism from the United States. We found this interesting news on London South East in their article, “Accounting body to improve machine reading of filings.”

Methodologies for Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation

By Melody Smith|November 12th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|1 Comment

When you are building a thesaurus, you can build it from the original text or from a new intellectual area. You can build from an existing vocabulary or from an existing topic. You can do a combination of the two. What often happens is that you take your text and apply it to a taxonomy you think might be fairly parallel, and then you customize it to meet your own needs. That is very common practice and it gets you there faster.