August 2013

Natural Language Doesn’t Always Come Naturally

By |August 19th, 2013

One of our goals in creating taxonomies and thesauri is to express the concepts in natural language. Natural language means that you have written it the way somebody would say it. We don’t invert it.

Other Duties As Assigned

By |August 19th, 2013

Jay Trainer is the new executive for agency services at the National Archives and Records Administration. What a mouthful of a job title and his job reflects the same. Trainer oversees five programs that manage billions of information sources from across all three branches of the government.

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Webinar Addresses the Use of AI Enterprise Wide

By |August 16th, 2013

Concept Searching is hosting a webinar entitled "Getting Knowledge Transfer Right Enterprise Wide" on September 5th. This is a joint effort with Discovery Machine Inc.

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Dedication to Standards Recognized

By |August 15th, 2013

The American National Standards Instittude (ANSI) recently named John Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, is pleased to announce that John Siemon, CTO and vice president of global operations at Siemon, a recipient of the 2013 Leadership and Service Award.

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Rewriting History

By |August 15th, 2013

With the future word inclusion policies of the Oxford English Dictionary unclear, various professionals were invited to attend a one-day international symposium. Stefan Dollinger, […]

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Project Increases Access for Research

By |August 14th, 2013

A new joint initiative launched by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will help researchers have access to improved metadata and new tools as they search through and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American National Election Studies (ANES). The two-year project, named Metadata Portal for the Social Sciences, is supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Reaching the Appropriate Audience

By |August 14th, 2013

Understanding their customers has always been a goal of retailers. If you understand customers, you can appeal to their interests and needs with the appropriate products and approach. What your customers think of you is just as important. Do your customers think of you as a kindred spirit? Do they think you truly understand their challenges? These questions are important to consider for a strong relationship with your clients and inevitably, a profitable one.

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Proper Indexing Helps Queries

By |August 13th, 2013

TSO was selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data. TSO is part of the Williams Lea group and their product is the OpenUp platform.

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