Taxodiary – Archiving

Digital Preservation for Scholarly Publishing

By admin|April 30th, 2018|indexing, News|Comments Off on Digital Preservation for Scholarly Publishing

Scientific print-publishing has never been a speedy process. It has long been a slow and cumbersome one. However, one associate editor at one of the very […]

Library Services Coordinator Position Available

By admin|March 2nd, 2018|indexing, News, ontology, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Library Services Coordinator Position Available

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, information sciences, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our […]

Indexing History

By admin|February 23rd, 2018|indexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Indexing History

In the information science world, “indexing” denotes various methods for organizing data so that it is easily searchable. To a student, however, the word […]

Art, Social Protest and Archives

By admin|February 20th, 2018|News, reference|Comments Off on Art, Social Protest and Archives

When you think of art and archives, protest signs don’t often come to mind. Fortunately, many of the signs from Boston’s first Women’s March […]

Preserving History From Your Barca Lounger

By admin|February 19th, 2018|indexing, metadata, News, reference, search|Comments Off on Preserving History From Your Barca Lounger

Small town history, big city archives. The love and passion for preserving historical information never fades. Home News Here out of Massachusetts brought this […]

Digging Around in the Data of the Past

By admin|January 3rd, 2018|News, reference, search, Technology|Comments Off on Digging Around in the Data of the Past

Data mining is the process of finding anomalies, patterns and correlations within large data sets to predict outcomes. Using a broad range of techniques, […]

Metadata in Search

By admin|December 22nd, 2017|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Metadata in Search

Users can now digitally access some of the most important scientific texts in history. The United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, known formally as […]

Meta What?

By admin|October 16th, 2017|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, metadata, reference, search|Comments Off on Meta What?

Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page’s content. They won’t appear on the page itself, but only in the page’s code. Think […]

Preservation is Not Just for Paper

By admin|October 4th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Preservation is Not Just for Paper

The first International Digital Preservation Day will be held on November 30, 2017. This inaugural event is designed to draw together individuals and institutions from across […]

Metadata’s Important Role in Archiving

By admin|September 8th, 2017|metadata, News, reference, search|Comments Off on Metadata’s Important Role in Archiving

Archiving historical documents, including images is an important task. The Greater North Miami Historical Society had a collection of images that needed proper archiving so […]