Taxodiary – Term lists

Knowledge Organization Systems

By Melody Smith|November 1st, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, semantic, Taxonomy, Term lists|1 Comment

I attended the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh. There were quite a few papers and posters I found aligned with taxonomies and the whole area of linked data, semantic implementations and the Dublin Core. The DC-2010 conference, sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), was held immediately prior to ASIS&T in the same hotel so the over lap in participants and programming was spot on for my interests. The ASIS&T annual meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. It has veered heavily into usability for the last few years and this change back to mainline information science was refreshing!

Internet Titles – A Who’s Who Explanation

By Melody Smith|October 26th, 2010|News, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on Internet Titles – A Who’s Who Explanation

The internet isn’t new, but for some navigating sites with ease doesn’t come easy. For those who have it mastered, they fly like the wind across links and sitemaps. But who are the people behind the scenes making your daily navigation a snap?

Stretching Taxonomy in a Social Way

By Melody Smith|September 27th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Term lists|Comments Off on Stretching Taxonomy in a Social Way

We read with interest “A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data.” In the last month, the arguments in the article have provided a framework for thinking about the amount of the information flowing through Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social media conduits.

A New Thesaurus for Online Scholarly Publications

By Melody Smith|August 3rd, 2010|Access Insights, News, reference, Term lists|Comments Off on A 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.

Field by Any Other Name

By admin|July 26th, 2010|Featured, metadata, Taxonomy, Term lists|2 Comments

July 26, 2010 — In one of the chatty podcasts about software engineering, one of the commentators pointed out that metadata was one of […]

Building a Keyword List

By admin|June 3rd, 2010|News, Term lists, Text processing|Comments Off on Building a Keyword List

June 3, 2010 – One of the methods we use to build a keyword list requires good, old-fashioned research. In the days of 4×6 […]