Taxodiary

August 2013

Taxonomy is Gray

By Melody Smith|August 12th, 20132013-08-11T21:02:38-04:00

From the time of Plato, philosophers have been outlining the world as they saw it and they truly built an outline; they truly built a taxonomy of the world as they saw it. The way we perceive some field, or reality in general, is our own philosophy. If we look at the world through these lenses we see it one way; we look at the world through a different set of lenses, we see it absolutely differently. That is important to realize when building a thesaurus, because people are thinking of a field in one specific way or another.

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Document Management with Solid Support

By Melody Smith|August 9th, 20132013-08-08T19:57:40-04:00

BMI Imaging Systems will be demonstrating a variety of document and records management solutions that increase the efficiency of government and corporate record keeping processes at the Las Vegas, Nevada Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) 2013 conference.

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Groups Urge Reforms Regarding Metadata Collection

By Melody Smith|August 9th, 20132013-08-08T22:43:07-04:00

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined 59 other privacy and civil liberties groups in a letter sent to the US Senate Judiciary Committee, calling on Congress to evaluate the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance programs and risks to civil liberties. The coalition sent the letter in advance of the Judiciary Committee's hearing on the NSA surveillance programs, and urged Congress to enact critical reforms to ensure that government surveillance programs include robust safeguards for constitutional rights. These reforms would include tightening the standards for collection and use of information, including communications metadata.

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Seeking Consistency and Standards

By Melody Smith|August 8th, 20132013-08-07T19:41:07-04:00

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members recently approved a new project to develop recommended practices for Packaging and Exchanging Serial Content. Many different organizations, including libraries, archives, indexing services, etc., work better and more efficiently when they exchange and work with digital files that make up serial content. However, these files are in some type of package that isn’t always the same or compatible.

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New Data and More Access

By Melody Smith|August 7th, 20132013-08-06T23:07:53-04:00

EBSCO Information Services and NetAdvance have joined forces allowing metadata from NetAdvance’s JapanKnowledge collection to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).

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Webinar Addresses Data Migration

By Melody Smith|August 6th, 20132013-08-05T21:46:19-04:00

Concept Searching is hosting a webinar along with Portal Solutions entitled, “84% of Migration Projects Fail – Getting it Right in SharePoint,” on August 22, 2013. The webinar will address SharePoint migration issues, information architecture and best practices to ensure migration does not result in the typical project over-runs, post-upgrade production issues and unanticipated down time.

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Outlining Slices of Knowledge

By Melody Smith|August 5th, 20132013-08-04T20:21:40-04:00

As most readers of this blog know, a thesaurus is a way to categorize the knowledge of certain fields or specified combinations thereof. All thesauri are built for specific fields or topical areas. This does not prevent a thesaurus from being able to cover a wide range of knowledge, especially if it’s multidisciplinary within, for instance, the area of academic subjects as a whole. (If the latter is the case, we might well have much more trouble with disambiguation than we would have in more specialized thesauri.)

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Expanding the Search

By Melody Smith|August 5th, 20132013-08-04T20:19:57-04:00

Alexander Street Press has updated its search interface with semantic facet browsing or more commonly known as an algorithm to identify categories of interest from a single keyword. With this new feature, results are returned pertaining to the keyword even if the keyword is not in the title of the resource.

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My Other Life

By Melody Smith|August 2nd, 20132013-09-03T16:15:17-04:00

I have another life outside the taxonomy world; one that often reminds me how connected we all really are in this world. I am attending a conference on faith-based communications. See, I told you it was a different life. While doing the "meet and greet" with fellow attendees, one mentioned she used to teach library and information sciences before feeling a call to write and even start her own small publishing company. The others around us queried her about the books, etc. and I waited patiently to ask her about her previous life. You see, when I tell people I write about taxonomy the response is almost always, "Is that about dead animals?"

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August 2013

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