Taxodiary

April 2013

New Aggregate Digital Public Library

By Melody Smith|April 24th, 20132013-04-23T23:07:54-04:00

The Digital Public Library of America launched a new website last week and become an independent nonprofit with the goal of pulling together vast resources for the public. A new platform will aggregate digital resources from libraries and museums across the United States. This library platform will not host any resources, but will provide open access to metadata about them. This information was found on Government Technology in their article, "Digital Public Library of America Opens Access to Resources."

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Disease Database Gets Stellar Reviews

By Melody Smith|April 23rd, 20132013-04-22T23:08:11-04:00

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have designed a search engine that indexes specific sets of databases to help identify rare diseases. FindZebra.com […]

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Colectica Chosen for Oracle Database

By Melody Smith|April 23rd, 20132013-04-22T23:07:01-04:00

Digital Journal brought this news to our attention in their article, “Colectica Announces Upcoming Support for Oracle Database 11g in the Colectica Metadata Repository.” Colectica Repository’s architecture can run both distributed and memory-intensive metadata registry operations against an Oracle database.

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Theory of Knowledge: 18th Century Developments

By Melody Smith|April 22nd, 20132013-04-21T22:18:25-04:00

Last time, we mentioned biological taxonomy. This leads us inevitably to Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), a Swedish zoologist and botanist. We regard him as the “father of modern taxonomy." Contrary to popular belief, Linnaeus did not invent the binomial nomenclature system, with organism types designated by genus and species. That honor belongs to the Bauhin brothers, Gaspar (1560-1624) and Johann (1541-1613). The two Swiss brothers formalized the then-existing method of (often vague and wordy) polynomial nomenclature, introducing a stricter, more logical system with one word for the genus and one for the species.

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Managing Information and Data

By Melody Smith|April 22nd, 20132013-04-21T22:16:31-04:00

Shabbir Dahod, TraceLink’s President and CEO, will be speaking at LogiPharma Europe this week in Geneva, Switzerland. LogiPharma is the world’s largest life sciences and pharmaceutical supply chain management conference with a special focus this year on supply chain performance, pharmaceutical integrity and emerging markets strategy.

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Finding Treasures

By Melody Smith|April 19th, 20132013-04-18T23:03:17-04:00

ou have no idea how excited I am to share this latest find with you. Ironically, it came on the same day that I found a vintage pocket handbook of synonyms and antonyms at a local thrift store. It was the best $1.99 I have spent in a long time. My shopping companion found it humorous that I was so excited to find something that "the Internet could provide." Tsk, tsk, tsk, my naïve little friend. Google will never give me the pleasure of turning yellowed pages full of antiquated words like a vintage book.

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Semantic Technology Progress Recognized

By Melody Smith|April 19th, 20132013-04-18T23:00:40-04:00

An emerging technology leader in natural language processing (NLP) and semantic technologies has been recognized for their contribution and achievements.

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New Partnership Harnesses Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith|April 18th, 20132013-04-18T10:30:33-04:00

Concept Searching and Smartonix have entered into a partnership agreement that will bring semantic metadata generation, taxonomy management, and enterprise-class solutions together.

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Data About Data

By Melody Smith|April 18th, 20132013-04-18T10:29:32-04:00

Metadata are the breadcrumbs we leave behind on photos, files, documents, etc. that tells us about the content, where it was created, and where we can find it again.

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April 2013

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