“Taxonomies in Search” Webinar
Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, Taxonomies in Search webinar will be held Wednesday, August 10th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).
ASIS&T and Access Innovations Host Webinar
ASIS&T and Access Innovations are hosting a webinar on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (EDT). The webinar is named “Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation” and the facilitators will be Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., and Joe Shepley, Vice President and Practice leader for Doculabs.
Pandora Continues to Grow in Use and Favor
Edison Research has released audience analysis that showcases ratings for Pandora internet radio, and they show that listeners are tuning in Pandora personalized radio more and more.
XBRL Taxonomy Search Tool Made Available
CompSci Resources, LLC is making available to the public its XBRL taxonomy search tool in order to assist issuers and mutual funds generate their XBRL submissions to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Talking About Wine
A new social monitoring tool has hit the market, but a very specific market. Cruvee focuse solely on the wine industry, allowing users to track and engage in conversations across the web with current and potential customers.
EBSCO Chosen for Findability
Nanyang Technological University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), after an extensive trial process of many services, to enable findability of the library’s content from a single search box.
Taxonomy and Search: Access Innovations’ Founder And Industry Pioneer Talks About Three Important Trends
During her 33 years in the search industry, Margie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, has seen a lot of trends come and go. Today’s changing information environment, with its ever-growing avalanche of data and critical need for better search and more efficient organization of content, presents some unique challenges. Hlava recently shared her views with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst who has more than 30 years of experience, as part of his Search Wizards Speak series. Access Innovations, Hlava’s company, is releasing an excerpt of the interview.
Semantic Technology Needs A Solid Taxonomy
The changes in retail traffic and popularity of things like GroupOn, Try It Local, etc. is motivating GeoCommerce to complete the process of consummating strategic relationships to ensure their footing in the future of Consumer Identification and Authentication.
From Taxonomy to Thesaurus
Nowadays, taxonomy and thesaurus often are used interchangeably. Indeed, we can consider a hierarchical thesaurus (which most are these days) as a fancy taxonomy. In either case, we use the controlled vocabulary for the indexing and retrieval. The hierarchical array is for our convenience for either navigating the collection when we are searching or for organizing the terms.