Search Ranks as Important
As Concept Searching is compiling the statistics from its 2015 SharePoint and Office 365 Metadata survey, one of the findings that has emerged is a renewed focus on improving enterprise search.
May 2015
Depth of Classifications
By Melody Smith|May 1st, 20152015-04-30T21:30:59-04:00
We know that when a taxonomy is well-designed and rooted in standards, it can make finding your content easy and thorough. However, the meaning of the word ‘taxonomy’ is often confused with that for ‘classification’ or even ‘thesaurus’.
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April 2015
Revolution in the Reference Section
By Melody Smith|April 30th, 20152015-04-29T22:18:57-04:00
Drama in the archival world? Who would have thought? You may have heard about the two archivists at University of Oregon who handed over close to 22,000 school records to an economics professor just for the asking. One archivist has since resigned. The remaining archivist was recently placed on administrative leave. There is a petition going to reinstate him and more than 100 University of Oregon professors have signed.
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Classifying Science
By Melody Smith|April 30th, 20152015-04-29T22:10:53-04:00
The INIS (International Nuclear Information System) Thesaurus is a valuable and useful product used by the INIS Secretariat and Member States to index documents for input into the INIS Collection and to facilitate information retrieval for global users of the collection.
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Managing Your Assets
By Melody Smith|April 29th, 20152015-04-28T21:31:50-04:00
Extensis has released their modular digital asset management (DAM) system, Extensis Portfolio, with promises of transforming the user experience.
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Custom Storage Increases Findability
By Melody Smith|April 29th, 20152015-04-28T21:27:42-04:00
21st Century Technologies Limited has developed an indigenous records and information management solution that offers companies secure, innovative, and customized document storage and management.
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Round Table Focuses on Future
By Melody Smith|April 28th, 20152015-04-27T21:40:05-04:00
Another educational opportunity is available through the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS). Fast Times for Information: Understanding the On-going Revolution will sharpen your knowledge of the issues and trends ahead, help you understand the details and nuances of major issues, and network with the emerging innovators in the content and publishing field.
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A Double Decker
By Melody Smith|April 28th, 20152015-04-27T21:37:29-04:00
I am a foodie and I write for a taxonomy blog. Of course I am going to share the latest taxonomy, "A Field Guide to the American Sandwich," found in The New York Times.
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Credit Where Credit is Due
By Melody Smith|April 28th, 20152015-04-27T21:34:41-04:00
No one will argue how helpful auto-classification or auto-indexing is to the world of making content findable. This interesting topic came from the blog post, “Jet Packs, Cars That Drive Themselves, and Autoclassification” from Earley & Associates.
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Click Three Times?
By Melody Smith|April 27th, 20152015-04-27T09:47:26-04:00
Every now and then, we hear or read the advice that taxonomies should be no more than three levels deep. The reason given is what’s commonly known in the web design world as the three-click rule. Supposedly, users do not have the patience to find information on a website using any more than three clicks of a mouse. Ergo, navigation hierarchies and similar structures are expected to honor this limitation by keeping the entire pool at kiddie depth.
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