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April 2014

Three Librarians Walk Into a Casino

By Melody Smith|April 11th, 20142014-04-10T14:18:39-04:00

If you are still on the fence about whether to attend the American Libraries Association (ALA) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas this summer, this bit of news might help you make your decision. There will be a special performance by the Oxford Commas, a band composed of librarians and university press editors who are dedicated to raising the grammatical standard in popular music. The set list will include such favorites as: Whom Do You Love?, You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, and Two Out of Three Is Not Bad.

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Embracing Knowledge Management

By Melody Smith|April 10th, 20142014-04-09T21:17:03-04:00

KM Institute (KMI) just offered its first Certified Knowledge Specialist (CKS) 4-day class this week in Reston, VA. Why are we talking about something that has already happened? The CKS is a new Certification by KMI designed to take a deeper focus a specific knowledge management-related topic. In this case, the focus was on Taxonomy and Search Solutions.

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Semantic Technology Professional Sought

By Melody Smith|April 8th, 20142014-04-07T19:32:09-04:00

The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), an international organization launched in 2005, following a proposal from the Global Science Forum of the OECD to establish international coordination and collaborative informatics infrastructure for neuroscience. INCF, in collaboration with the Human Brain Project, is now seeking to immediately hire a Semantic Technology Specialist.

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A Taxonomy of Me

By Melody Smith|April 8th, 20142014-04-07T19:25:01-04:00

I couldn't help myself. A taxonomy of selfies? How could I look away? Please forgive my self-indulgence (pun totally intended).

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The Semantics of Whisk(e)y

By Melody Smith|April 7th, 20142014-04-06T15:25:07-04:00

As noted last week in our article, "A Spirit of Another Name", Saveur has created a glossary of Whisk(e)ys. However, as we all know, a glossary does not a taxonomy make –it can, however, be a good starting point. One of the problems, of course, is that national styles – and even spellings—are mutable. In general, “whiskey” comes from Ireland and the United States, while “whisky” (no ‘e’) comes from Canada and Scotland. However, well-known bourbon Maker’s Mark long ago decided to buck the semantic trend and drop the “e” despite being an all-American brand.

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The Powers of Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith|April 4th, 20142014-03-31T17:28:28-04:00

Semantic data standards exist in a variety of businesses and markets. In the oil and gas industry, they exist to help users integrate different types of data together or answer some of the more difficult questions. They break down the walls of application names, such as Excel or Oracle, and allow the data to be published, accessed, and linked as simple as browsing a website.

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Searching the Clouds

By Melody Smith|April 3rd, 20142014-03-31T16:53:21-04:00

Visionet Systems, Inc. has announced the public launch of VisiOCR, a cloud-based automated mortgage document indexing and data extraction service for lenders, servicers, settlement companies, and investors.

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It is Just a Taxonomy

By Melody Smith|April 2nd, 20142014-03-28T13:51:16-04:00

We have shared here many times the angst of those who are worried about the ICD-10 coding classification transition that goes into effect on October 1, 2014. The new classification system has five times the number of codes, hence the angst.

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Green Data Center Lab and Taxonomy

By Melody Smith|April 2nd, 20142014-03-28T13:35:25-04:00

Demartek has been named an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized test laboratory for the United States EPA ENERGY STAR® Data Center Storage program. They provide hands-on research and analysis by focusing on industry analysis and lab validation testing of server, network, storage, and security technologies. The EPA ENERGY STAR Data Center Storage taxonomy is consistent with the taxonomy developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative.

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April Fools’ Day

By Melody Smith|April 1st, 20142014-04-01T10:09:19-04:00

Today is the day of pranks, jokes, and trickery. Some people go to outlandish and extravagant efforts to pull a prank on others. But how did it get started? I went to the Library of Congress to find some answers.

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April 2014

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