Taxodiary

October 2013

Options for Handling Health Records

By Melody Smith|October 1st, 20132013-09-30T21:22:14-04:00

BetterChart has announced that the unveiling of their new BetterChart 2.0 will take place during the hosting of a webinar scheduled for Thursday, October 3 at 10:30 a.m. CST. Attendees to the one-hour webinar will hear how Washington University School of Medicine uses the new and improved BetterChart on a daily basis to decrease time spent loading documents into their electronic health records (EHRs) and keep the document management costs at a reasonable place.

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September 2013

Types of Hierarchical Relationships

By Melody Smith|September 30th, 20132022-04-08T15:21:34-04:00

The defining characteristic of taxonomies is the presence of hierarchical relationships. Information specialists recognize several types of hierarchical relationships. Generic relationship – As explained in ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (page 47), “This relationship identifies the link between a class and its members or species.” The generic relationship is generally called the Broader term/Narrower term relationship. In most cases, it’s easy in traditional biological taxonomy of organisms, because of its well-established and well-known groupings of phyla, genera, families, species, and so forth, i.e., Rodents and NT Squirrels.

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Webinar on Practical Classification – This Week!

By Melody Smith|September 30th, 20132013-09-29T17:17:43-04:00

The SLA Taxonomy Division presents the second webinar in their Practical Classification series. Sharon Garewal, from JSTOR, and Marcie Zaharee, from MITRE, will each describe how they use tools to build thesauri and classify data. Mark your calendar now for October 3, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST. The webinars are free to division members. SLA members may attend for $15, or contact SLA to add the division for $20. Non-members may attend for $50. Register here.

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A Long Time Coming

By Melody Smith|September 30th, 20132013-09-29T17:12:21-04:00

Relevance and Metadata Partners have announced their official merger and new name - Cognitect, Inc. By combining their resources, knowledge and experience, Cognitect believes it is now positioned to provide even more assistance in leveraging information, harnessing the cloud as an engine for growth, and building robust systems faster by creating simple tools and services that can be composed to solve large problems.

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Helping to Increase Access to Data

By Melody Smith|September 27th, 20132013-09-26T22:07:55-04:00

Celebrating ten years as an Open Access publisher, the PLOS (Public Library of Science) is pleased to share and celebrate their progress.

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Time to Play

By Melody Smith|September 27th, 20132013-09-26T22:05:19-04:00

We learned in kindergarten that you can learn and play at the same time. So it shouldn't be a surprise that someone has introduced an application to visualize thesaurus, taxonomies or controlled vocabularies in an entertaining manner.

The Power and Gift of Knowledge

By Melody Smith|September 27th, 20132013-09-26T22:03:21-04:00

Education Secretary Arne Duncan appeared on the Colbert Report this week where he stressed the importance of both preschool and post-secondary education to host Stephen Colbert. Studies have shown there is a seven to one return on investment when children attend preschool.

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Presentation on Metadata at the Frankfurt Book Fair

By Melody Smith|September 26th, 20132013-09-25T19:56:36-04:00

Scope e-Knowledge Center will be presenting "Metadata – Enhancing Discoverability and Search Precision" at the Professional & Scientific Information Hot Spot stage on October 10, 2013 at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Data, Big and Little

By Melody Smith|September 26th, 20132013-09-25T19:48:43-04:00

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters released Big Data and the Needs of the Pharma Industry, a whitepaper offering new strategies for managing Big Data. The focus being using an array of technologies to convert it for accessibility.

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The Future Technology Will Make the Current Seem Simple

By Melody Smith|September 25th, 20132013-09-24T21:52:18-04:00

Computers still impress us with their intelligence and frustrate us with their stubbornness. It is common sense to us, but we often forget that technology doesn’t understand or utilize common sense.

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October 2013

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