Taxodiary – Access Insights

The Use of Data in Election Cycles

By Melody Smith|November 10th, 2014|Access Insights, Business strategy, Featured, metadata|Comments Off on The Use of Data in Election Cycles

Election Day has once again come and gone. Incumbents are ousted, bills are passed, and the political ads have finally stopped, so now the fallout begins. But regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, there’s one thing you can be sure of: lobbying groups and political campaigns have utilized Big Data to try to secure your vote and will place an increasing amount of importance on it. On a smaller level, data analysis been happening in this realm for years, but really, it became huge during President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

Semantics, Linked Data, and the Future of Academic Publishing

By Melody Smith|November 3rd, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, semantic|Comments Off on Semantics, Linked Data, and the Future of Academic Publishing

The rules for academic publishing really haven’t changed in centuries. Once, there was a large percentage of the populace who were skeptical of academic research when Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society started began its publication life in 1665. To make the system work against that pushback, the method had to be codified. As a result, access to research material was difficult to attain, to the extent that scientists as late as the 19th Century actively condoned criminal behavior just to have access to corpses for study and presentation.

Registration Now Open for the 11th Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

By Melody Smith|October 27th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Registration Now Open for the 11th Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

Registration is now open for the 11th Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled for February 16-20, 2015 at the Access Innovations, Inc. offices at 4725 Indian School Road Northeast, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Active Searching for Taxonomy Resources

By Melody Smith|October 20th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, search|Comments Off on Active Searching for Taxonomy Resources

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.” So muses American businessman Harvey MacKay. We have no choice in the matter. Time cannot be “saved” …only spent. Our responsibility is to determine how we wish to best allocate it. Otherwise, time will not only be spent but also wasted. How valuable, then, are those skills and tools that help us distribute our time in ways that we consider most useful and productive!

Covered In Metadata: Semantic Fingerprinting

By Melody Smith|October 13th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, semantic|Comments Off on Covered In Metadata: Semantic Fingerprinting

Once upon a time, there was a real art to finding something in a library, and the card catalog, in a way, was the medium. Those giant wooden cabinets were filled with mysteries to be uncovered, but the first mystery was how to navigate it. There were always the artists—the librarians—who could help you through it, but that is really only viable for a limited amount of content; librarians have other duties, after all.

Bob Kasenchak to Facilitate Taxonomy Boot Camp Workshop

By Melody Smith|October 7th, 2014|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Bob Kasenchak to Facilitate Taxonomy Boot Camp Workshop

As we announced yesterday, our own Margie Hlava was named winner of the 2014 ASIS&T Award of Merit. Because she will be in Seattle on November 4th to receive this award, Bob Kladkfa;ceck will be leading the workshop "So You Have a Taxonomy - Now What?" in her place.

Marjorie M.K. Hlava Named Winner of the 2014 ASIS&T Award of Merit

By Melody Smith|October 6th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Marjorie M.K. Hlava Named Winner of the 2014 ASIS&T Award of Merit

ASIS&T, the American Society for Information Science and Technology, has announced that it has selected Marjorie Hlava, President of Access Innovations, Inc., as the 2014 Award of Merit winner.

Fingers in Every Pot — Metadata Through the Publishing Pipeline

By Melody Smith|September 29th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Fingers in Every Pot — Metadata Through the Publishing Pipeline

Nobody is going to deny that publishing is and always has been a sometimes messy process, but sophisticated uses of metadata and taxonomies can help clean it up. It fascinates me how intimately it can work in every step of the process to make it easier on everybody, from the author writing the piece to the institution that publishes it, all the way to its marketing and use.

Pack ’em Up

By Melody Smith|September 26th, 2014|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Pack ’em Up

Are you ready for boot camp? Have all your tools and gear packed and ready to learn? The Taxonomy Boot Camp is scheduled for November 4-5, 2014 in Washington D.C. as a precursor to the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 that we brought to you earlier this week.

Inline Tagging Facilitating Linked Data

By Melody Smith|September 22nd, 2014|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Inline Tagging Facilitating Linked Data

Access Innovations recently debuted Data Harmony Version 3.9 and, within its new features and fixes, is a sneakily clever module called Inline Tagging. On the surface, it does exactly what the name says; it allows the user to see in a piece of content, quickly and clearly, what concepts in the text got triggered and tagged by the software. It seems simple enough, a handy tool, but upon closer inspection, it really opens doors for the user.