Ontology Lookup Service

July 6, 2010 — If you want to locate a gene ontology term, point your browser to the European Bioinformatics Institute and its Ontology Lookup Service. Enter the term names of search by term ID. If you don’t know what a “term ID” is, the service won’t be of much use to you. OLS, a spin-off of an…

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Yahoo and Popularity Driven News

July 6, 2010 — Access Innovations, the sponsor of this post, is in the indexing and classification business. Humans have grouped events, people, and information for millennia. We read with interest the New York Times article about search and the Softpedia commentary. When you read this, the New York Times article will not be easily available.…

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Taxonomies and Content Governance

July 5, 2010 — In the 1980s, commercial database producers had an editorial policy. I recall reading the Courier Journal / Data Courier description of the editorial policy for the original ABI/INFORM business database. (Disclosure: Access Innovations was an advisor to the Courier Journal’s commercial database operation.) The idea was that subject matter experts and…

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