Expressing Culture in Coffee Classification
It is always interesting to me when I find taxonomies of interesting and unusual topics. Even if they aren’t true taxonomies, they are typically classifications of some form or another, and they provide information, which is, after all, the goal. The latest find: Gizmodo recently published “A Taxonomy Of Hip Coffee Shop Names.” We have come…
Read MoreSearch What?
Semantic search isn’t new. We have all experienced it, whether we realized it at the time or not. Google continues to put more priority on it, and is indicating that it will influence rankings now and even more so in the future. This interesting topic came from eConsultancy in their article, “Semantic search: the future of search…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence in the Social Media Realm
Twitter is making artificial intelligence efforts a priority. They are seeking experts to fill out a new team called ‘Cortex.’ Business Insider brought this news to us in their article, “Here’s what we know about ‘Cortex,’ Twitter’s new artificial intelligence group focused on understanding content.” As they try to keep up with Google and Facebook…
Read MoreWebinar on Content Management
A slightly different but familiar learning opportunity has been announced. Content management tends to get lost in the midst of new technology and analytics. However, good old-fashioned content management still plays a pivotal role in an organization’s ability to manage input and output of information. It can also make the difference in whether the company…
Read MoreLearning Opportunities This Week
The Association of American Publishers is making available some very interesting and applicable speakers and topics during their Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) webinars this week. The first one is today, July 21, 2015 at 12:30-1:30 p.m. with Dee Magnoni, Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dee will discuss Scholarly Communications at a National…
Read MoreThe Thesaurus as a Domain Model in the Modern World
Source: Dreamstime Nowadays, taxonomies and thesauri are used largely for web navigation and for information search and retrieval. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, it’s largely the digital information revolution that has made their use for information search and retrieval a vital necessity in research, business, and numerous other types of activities. Taxonomies and…
Read MoreNew Agreement Takes Communications to the Next Level
CHORUS recently announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications. This type of collaboration among organizations like CHORUS and ORCID is key to continuing to meet the changing needs of the scholarly community. ORCID Executive Director Laurel Haak said, “Creating and supporting authoritative connections between researchers and…
Read MoreNew and Better Access
Emerald Group Publishing has launched the Green Open Access, Zero Embargo trial applicable for all mandated articles submitted to the company’s library and information science (LIS) journals and to selected information and knowledge management journals. This interesting information came from Info Docket in their article, “Emerald Group Publishing Announces Library and Information Science Journals Green Open Access Trial.”…
Read MoreWhere to Start?
The Library of Congress started taking steps in 2010 toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets and planning to make it all available to researchers. This interesting news came from Politico in their article, “Library of Congress’ Twitter archive is a huge #FAIL.” Yes, you read that right.…
Read MoreA Word By Any Other Name
The Beatles just may cringe a little if they were still together. A humorous, tongue-in-cheek parody based on a song of theirs (I Am the Walrus) was brought to our attention in a video titled, “The Chaser’s War on Everything: I am thesaurus.” As in most news stories, the real entertainment is in the comment…
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