Taxodiary – Access Insights

Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting on February 18-20, 2013

By Melody Smith|January 21st, 2013|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting on February 18-20, 2013

Another exciting case study... MAI in Amazon Cloud using Amazon Web Services Nigel Kerr, JSTOR, and Bob Kasenchak, Access Innovations, Inc., will describe the revolutionary way MAI is being implemented by the JSTOR collection, which numbers about 8.5 million academic articles. Over the course of the JSTOR thesaurus project, we have to use the emergent thesaurus to index these articles several times for testing and implementation. One significant challenge is: how we can index and re-index this vast volume of data without slowing down the thesaurus assembly efforts? To meet this challenge we are using Amazon Web Services (aka "the Amazon cloud"), in which we can "rent" processing time and storage on-demand. This allows us use a large number of computer resources for a very short period of time to get the indexing done. Just another example of how MAI is being adapted to meet our clients needs!

The Importance of Taxonomies

By Melody Smith|January 16th, 2013|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Importance of Taxonomies

The demand for knowledge management has broadened the use of taxonomies, as well as the opportunities for taxonomists to apply their skills.

Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting – February 18-20, 2013

By Melody Smith|January 15th, 2013|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting – February 18-20, 2013

The Data Harmony Users Group meeting is almost a month away. Here is some logistical information for attendees, as well as another sneak peek at content to tempt those who haven't registered yet.

Search Engines and Related Tools

By Melody Smith|January 14th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, search|1 Comment

A search engine is different from search software. The terms are used interchangeably by people, but they are not the same. Search software is an application – a bunch of codes – and a search engine is a collection of servers with a lot of data on it that is indexing the Internet and delivering it by HTML pages to customers. It is doing that by spidering around to get the information, usually from those metaname headers, and now increasingly from full text and putting that information up and comparing it, searching it. You all have some idea of how Google, Lycos, Bing, and all those other ones work, so you know what happens here. Again, a search engine is different from search software.

Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Founder and Chair of Access Innovations Chosen as “Woman of Influence”

By Melody Smith|January 8th, 2013|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Founder and Chair of Access Innovations Chosen as “Woman of Influence”

Marjorie M. K. Hlava, founder and chair of Access Innovations, Inc. of Albuquerque, is among 32 New Mexicans honored as 2013 “Women of Influence” by the Albuquerque Business First.

Why is a consultant not a “vendor?”

By Melody Smith|January 7th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Why is a consultant not a “vendor?”

It’s time to consider “services” to be “products,” at least where meetings and conferences are concerned. Wikipedia says "IBM treats its business as a service business. Although it still manufactures computers, it sees the physical goods as a small part of the "business solutions" industry. They have found that the price of demand for "business solutions" is much lower than for hardware. There has been a corresponding shift to a subscription pricing model. Rather than receiving a single payment for a piece of manufactured equipment, many manufacturers are now receiving a steady stream of revenue for ongoing contracts." The change is significant.

Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting Feb. 18 – 20, 2013

By Melody Smith|January 7th, 2013|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting Feb. 18 – 20, 2013

Here are two more of the exciting, in-depth case studies we have planned for you at this year's meeting. Semantic Enrichment and Disambiguation for AIP's Scitation Platform: Evan Owens, CIO, Publishing, American Institute of Physics In Spring 2013, AIP Publishing will be launching the next generation of its Scitation e-journal hosting platform on Publishing Technology's pub2web software. All content will be semantically enriched using the new AIP Thesaurus, the development of which was described at the 2012 Data Harmony User Group meeting. The enriched content will be used to create subject pages and enhanced search capabilities. This replaces the PACS classification scheme currently used by AIP publications.

Plan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013

By Melody Smith|January 3rd, 2013|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Plan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013

Registration is now open for the Ninth Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting. Sessions will be held February 18-20, 2013 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DHUG meeting focuses on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which supports user organization of their information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.

RDF: A Wrapper for Metadata

By Melody Smith|December 31st, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata|Comments Off on RDF: A Wrapper for Metadata

In information management, a wrapper is a program that translates tagged data into relational form, so that databases can deal with it. We’re interested in this because some of that tagged data includes subject terms, keywords, or whatever you want to call taxonomy terms that have been used to describe documents.

Dublin Core: Sort of a Metadata Standard

By Melody Smith|December 24th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata|Comments Off on Dublin Core: Sort of a Metadata Standard

The Dublin Core metadata guidelines started in 1995 in Dublin, Ohio which is why they are called the Dublin Core. The beginning was actually in the basement of the OCLC building, in March of 1995. In April of 1996, the Dublin Core advocates went to Warwick, England, where they had another conference. So there are Warwick Conventions for the Dublin Core. So there’s no mystery about the names; these things are just named after the places where they started.