Taxonomy of What?

This interesting and somewhat alternative taxonomy fell on my radar today and I couldn’t resist. Humor me. It is Friday, after all.

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Standards for All Sizes

The American National Standards Institute’s Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) has announced the launch of a new database compiling information about nanotechnology-related standards and affiliated activities. This new database is part of a larger project by the ANSI-NSP to increase the visibility of existing and in-progress documents in relation to nanotechnology.

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Hometown Memories Online

I was reading my hometown paper today online. I am from a small town in Seymour, Indiana. In fact, “the small town” referred to in John Mellencamp’s so-named 80’s hit. The leading story was about digitizing records to make search work faster and with more comprehensive results. These deja vu moments almost surprise me in a very pleasing sort of way. It is like the universe is saying, “you made the right choices.”

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Google’s Biggest Challenge

Vision is key to succeeding but difficult to obtain if you have been in the lead from the beginning. There is power in seeing the backs of your competitors. It drives you to compete and win. But always seeing the finish line with a clear view can be deceptive.

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Some Thoughts on Vocabulary Control

A large part of what we work on in taxonomy development is vocabulary control. Our classification of knowledge involves designing controlled vocabularies and getting them into a form that we can use many, many times. We also have to do some linguistic analysis of the data to make sure that our terms are working correctly.

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