Charitable Search
A new search engine is being developed that will help make charities' research easier to find and more useful The new product is being developed by Giving Evidence and is due to be launched early next year.
December 2014
Let the Geeks Celebrate
By Melody Smith|December 19th, 20142014-12-18T18:32:16-05:00
Those of us in the world of taxonomies understand the importance of consistency and standards. So when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently published a Recommendation of HTML5, the fifth major revision of the format used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform, we got a little excited.
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Register Today for SLA 2015
By Melody Smith|December 18th, 20142014-12-17T19:05:34-05:00
We realize you are in the middle of the holiday festivities and planning something for six months from now seems way too organized for the chaos that is December. However, you should mark your calendar for the Special Libraries Association 2015 Annual Conference on June 14-15, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. Whether you are new to this field or a seasoned professional, you'll find something to enlighten you at the SLA 2015 Annual Conference.
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Ancient Literature
By Melody Smith|December 18th, 20142014-12-17T18:58:22-05:00
Archiving, indexing, and making content findable are at the core of what we do. Many of our clients include scholars who devote more than a fair share of their time to older literature.
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Jobs Down Under
By Melody Smith|December 17th, 20142014-12-16T21:10:34-05:00
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
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Content Migration Success Relies on Solid Taxonomy
By Melody Smith|December 17th, 20142014-12-16T21:06:53-05:00
Installing a new digital asset management (DAM) system can be a challenge. After a great deal of planning and coordination across multiple departments and groups, the biggest task is left - the migration of existing assets from one or more sources into the new DAM system.
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Beefing Up the Search
By Melody Smith|December 17th, 20142014-12-16T21:04:20-05:00
Nuix recently launched version 6.0 of its search, e-discovery, and analytics engine. This new version adds new data formats, languages, and operating systems, as well as new ways to group and filter important data types.
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Auto vs. Human Indexing
By Melody Smith|December 16th, 20142014-12-15T21:39:53-05:00
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed a computer that performed as well or better than humans when it comes to the task of extracting data from scientific journals and entering it into a database.
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A Thousand Words
By Melody Smith|December 16th, 20142014-12-15T21:31:51-05:00
Did you know the human retina can transmit visual information to the brain at roughly the rate of an Ethernet connection? In comparison, reading text transmits information at roughly the rate of a dial-up modem.
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The Gift of SMEs
By Melody Smith|December 15th, 20142014-12-14T18:12:42-05:00
A typical thesaurus construction project for a scholarly publisher, policy clearinghouse, medical institution, or any other client with a technical vocabulary involves the input of a number of stakeholders.
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