Capturing Catholic History

The Church of the Latter Day Saints are notorious for their genealogy, archiving, and indexing of familial and church history. Now the Catholic church is in the business of preserving history digitally, at least in one archdiocese. The new director of the archdiocesan Office of Archives and Records, Claire Galloway Jenkins, arrived recently at the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, ready to get started.

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The Zombies Are Coming

Halloween is approaching fast, and unlike most zombies, we here at Access Innovations wanted to be sure we are ready for the hordes of zombies bound to be knocking down our doors on October 31st. Are you ready? If you’re not, never fear. We created a very unique tool to help you keep your head (pun intended) during the zombie apocalypse: a zombie taxonomy.

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UDC Seminar Scheduled for This Month

The next International Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) Seminar entitled “Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge” will take place on October 24-25, 2013 in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at The Hague. This is the fourth in a series of International UDC Seminars devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment.

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European Project Opens Code

The EU’s “digital.me” project is a multiple-partner project to develop a system for user-controlled social networks and services that can serve as a central hub for managing a user’s various digital identities. This big news is they have now released the source code from its software development work as an open-source project.

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Data Harmony Users Group Meeting – “Then and Now: Addressing the Changing Needs of Content Development”

Monday, February 10, is a full-day overview of the Data Harmony software suite. Attendees will learn how, why, and when taxonomies are used; how to start and maintain a taxonomy; and about resources available for taxonomy development. This information will provide a solid foundation for deeper understanding of the core meeting sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Working Together to Further Semantic Technology

A new strategic partnership has come to light between Cherry Olive and Ontology Systems. This joint effort between a unified data management specialist and a semantic search company has potential to smooth the process of integration and deployment of products. This interesting news was shared in their press release titled, “Cherry Olive, Ontology Systems sign strategic partnership to assist companies to control big data.” Ontology 4 was recently launched and it replaces the traditional data integration.

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Coming to Terms with Taxonomy Tools

Your indexing platform is losing its range
You’re thinking it’s time for a serious change
You’ve scoured the web,
and still you’re left wanting
Just sorting through features and hype
can be daunting

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Bottom Up or Top Down?

Bottom up and top down are two opposite (but completely compatible) approaches to developing hierarchical structure. The controlled vocabulary standard ANSI/NISO Z39.19 explains the two approaches as follows:

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