The Complexity of Knowledge Organization
If you didn’t make it to the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation (IKO) conference in Singapore last month, don’t worry. The conference materials and a post-conference newsletter are available free online. Though it isn’t quite as good as being there in person, you can still read what Margie Hlava (President of Access Innovations) and Bob Kasenchak (Director of…
Read MoreClassified Data
Classification influences many parts of our lives. For example, classifying students in special education programs as autistic has increased three hundred percent from 2000 to 2010 in the United States. Perspective is key here, as a huge portion of these students would have been diagnosed with another condition or disorder. In other words, they were…
Read MoreLearn How to Increase Findability
Enterprise Search & Discovery is holding their annual summit in Washington D.C. on November 3-5, 2015. This year’s theme is “Delivering on the Promise of Search.” This event is a good opportunity to learn about new technologies, next generation information access, and interesting approaches to search and discovery. Who should attend the Enterprise Search &…
Read MoreThe Chicken or the Egg?
We often think of a computer as the laborious mechanism under or on our desk that provides access to our information sources and the sometimes lifelike mechanism we can blame for all things gone awry. There are always those who believe that computers will take over for humans in the far (and not so far)…
Read MoreHumanity in the Digital World
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique and interesting learning experience. The NFAIS Humanities Roundtable 2015, sponsored by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and Quarles & Brady LLP, will take place Friday, October 2, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois, 8:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CDT. This year’s theme, “Digital Humanities and Digital Publishing:…
Read MoreSemantic Technology Can Be the Best Choice
Ontology Systems (“Ontology”) is working with the United Kingdom Government Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to apply their graph-data and semantic modeling platform, Ontology 4, as they pursue a solution that enables their team to analyze their data at a single point, regardless of its format or source. PR Newswire brought this information to…
Read MoreEverything Goes Every Place It Fits
The traditional taxonomy is monohierarchical – there is one and only one place for every term. This is only sensible for many purposes; no one wants to look up a book in a library catalog only to find out that it is either in Section A or Section F, and no biologist would ever identify…
Read MoreTime for Camp
Taxonomies can be powerful tools when developed properly and by professionals. This year’s Taxonomy Boot Camp is about highlighting taxonomy’s many faces and sharing practical solutions in different real-world environments. Anyone can learn how taxonomies can help improve the user experience and dynamically publish web content and hear about large-scale metadata optimization projects and the…
Read MoreThe Tightening of Data Security
Security in technology and data is rapidly becoming a top priority, and rightly so. The massive hack of background check records at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently compromised the data of 21.5 million people. This interesting information came from USA Today in their article, “OPM says second hack affected more than 21M Americans.” As you…
Read MoreThe Design of Standards
There is a need for standards in everything. Now there is a world standard for capturing and conveying the knowledge that robots possess. This interesting subject came from Scientific Computing in their article, “Ontology for Automatons: Standard Knowledge for Robots.” An ontology for automatons was crafted by a working group of 166 experts. The IEEE Standard…
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