Taxodiary

November 2013

A Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification

By Melody Smith|November 11th, 20132013-11-10T19:56:28-05:00

Recently, I was watching a show on the Weather Channel about the “discovery” of a previously unrecognized type of cloud. This intrigued me, as I’ve always wondered how the “official” classifications of various kinds of things come about, and just who has the authority somehow to establish the classifications and terminology. We all know at least some of the standard cloud types – cirrus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, etc. (If you want to know all the types and subtypes, check out Wikipedia’s “List of cloud types”.) Who decided on those names and types, and why?

New Patents for Metadata Management

By Melody Smith|November 11th, 20132013-11-10T19:46:31-05:00

The U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office recently notified APTARE that it has been granted a patent to create a “Catalog that Stores File System Metadata in an Optimized Manner.”

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Data of Massive Instructions

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 20132013-11-07T23:47:10-05:00

Two billion is a large number, regardless of whether you are referring to dollars or granules of sand. WorldCat has reported the addition of its two billionth holding. This impressive and somewhat daunting piece of news was found on OCLC in their post, “WorldCat database reaches 2 billion holdings.”

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Semantic Technology Increases Findability

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 20132013-11-07T23:46:26-05:00

The semantic web is inspiring interest by Fujitsu Ireland and local scientists who are forming a research alliance. Since the semantic web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the inclusion of semantic content in web pages seems a natural fit. Computer World UK brought this information to our attention in their article, “Ireland and Fujitsu aim to cash in on semantic web.”

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Investing in the Professionals

By Melody Smith|November 7th, 20132013-11-06T21:10:52-05:00

Chief information officers (CIOs) are responsible for the availability of information to their businesses on a consistent and timely basis. However, in many organizations, this is not considered a strategic priority but is more of a maintenance task. This is unfortunate. Ventana Research brought this topic to our attention in their blog post titled, “CIOs Need to Make Information Management a Real Priority.”

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A Different Approach

By Melody Smith|November 7th, 20132013-11-06T21:09:40-05:00

One computer engineer took the subject of his PhD thesis, Propuesta e implementación de una arquitectura genérica para la creación de cursos para Sistemas Tutores Inteligentes (Proposal and Implementation of a generic architecture for the creation of courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems), to create a tool that simplified and “humanized” intelligent tutoring systems. This very interesting news was found on Basque Research in their article, “A tool that enables courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems to be designed simply and intuitively is created.”

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How is your qi?

By Melody Smith|November 6th, 20132013-11-05T21:02:33-05:00

Is qi a word? According to Word with Friends, yes. It is reported to be another spelling for chi. For hardcore Scrabble-ites, this can sometimes be a hard pillow to swallow. The purist resist words that are popular for those hard to use letters like q and z.

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New Partnership Delivers Solutions

By Melody Smith|November 6th, 20132013-11-05T21:00:23-05:00

Coraid has announced a technical partnership with Splunk to enable large-scale machine data analytics in Coraid enterprise and cloud data centers through Splunk Enterprise. This interesting information was found on MarketWatch in their article, “Coraid Announces Alliance With Splunk to Tame Large-Scale Machine Data With Scale-Out Storage.”

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Access Innovations’ Taxonomy Client Public Library of Science (PLOS) Unveils PLOS ONE Platform

By Melody Smith|November 4th, 20132013-11-03T17:44:36-05:00

PLOS ONE unveiled its new e-journal platform last month, with Subject Area browsing capability made possible by the PLOS thesaurus, constructed by Access Innovations in 2012 and refined in collaboration with PLOS since then. PLOS ONE is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2006. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine.

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New ANSI Portal

By Melody Smith|November 4th, 20132013-11-03T17:37:57-05:00

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has officially launched the ANSI IBR Portal, an online tool for free, read-only access to voluntary consensus standards that have been incorporated by reference (IBR) into federal laws and regulations.

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November 2013

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