Common Factors
What do legal jurisdictions and leprechauns have in common? More than one might think. In the world of classification, words like extinct and endangered could be applied to both and many more genres.
January 2015
Bringing It All Together
By Melody Smith|January 1st, 20152014-12-30T23:02:26-05:00
The launch of Salesforce Files Connect allows files from on-premises Microsoft SharePoint to be brought into a company's cloud workflow.
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December 2014
e-Discovery Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
By Melody Smith|December 31st, 20142014-12-30T22:52:57-05:00
The word discovery causes anxiety in some and th term “e-discovery” is even scarier to some. Somehow despite the fact that we use technology on a daily basis, there is still resistance to incorporating digital evidence into a case.
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Consistency with Standards
By Melody Smith|December 31st, 20142014-12-30T22:50:12-05:00
This interesting topic came from The Ancient World Online blog, in their post,”Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network: Digital Books, Images and Objects.” The aim of the project “Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network” within the Arachne database is the development and provision of web-based prints from the period between 1500 and 1830. The project encompasses reconstruction and online publication of about 1700 prints that appeared between 1500 and 1900, as well. A total of 2,300 engravings have been processed in this extensive digital indexing project, which spanned 4 1/2 years.
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Seasonal Classification
By Melody Smith|December 30th, 20142014-12-29T23:32:27-05:00
In tune with the season, the American Museum of Natural History is featuring a scitification classification exercise where they are sharing one scientific find each day. On the first of the twelve days, a partridge in a book of taxonomy.
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Searching the Clouds
By Melody Smith|December 30th, 20142014-12-29T23:23:09-05:00
The cloud storage industry is centered on managing the demands of big data. In this process, cloud technology vendors are moving to better search abilities as well as organizing the vast amount of data collected.
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Raising a Glass to Rich and Complicated Words
By Melody Smith|December 29th, 20142014-12-28T16:22:10-05:00
As we anticipate the approaching new Gregorian year, those of us who are taxonomists are looking forward with renewed anticipation to the taxonomic challenges that certain kinds of words bring. Take “glass”, for example. “Glass” is one of those words that contain an abundance of possible meanings. Ironically, this poses the potential for ambiguity. What makes this particular situation even more ironic is that this ambiguity clouds the very clarity that the word often symbolizes. Ambiguous words are tricky to work with in constructing and developing taxonomies and thesauri. Moreover, they make the writing of effective indexing rules challenging. Taking care in the crafting of those rules becomes all the more important, because of the need for disambiguation.
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Webinar Focuses on Metadata
By Melody Smith|December 29th, 20142014-12-28T15:59:39-05:00
Concept Searching has opened registration for the 'Business Critical Metadata' webinar, co-hosted by Doug Miles, Director of Market Intelligence at AIIM, and Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching. The webinar is scheduled for January 20, 2015 from 11:30 a.m.– 12:15 p.m. EST.
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Technology is Failing to Impress
By Melody Smith|December 29th, 20142014-12-28T15:55:09-05:00
Our level of impressiveness with technology is declining at the same rate as our patience. As we become more connected, we expect 24/7 access to everything – the internet, our data, our photos, etc.
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December 2014
Recording History
By Melody Smith|December 26th, 20142014-12-25T18:06:08-05:00
World War II veterans' average age is roughly 91 years old. So it is past time to record their stories to be sure history is not lost. Officials in a Tennessee county are doing just that.
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