As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are always excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
Professor Deborah L. McGuinness has been selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). McGuinness is a web scientist, which is what AAAS cites as the reason for her recognition. Her contributions to the Semantic Web, knowledge representation, and reasoning environments will be part of the honor ceremony at its annual meeting in February 2014 in Chicago.
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
We want to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., so we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available.
The winners of the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC) were announced at the 12th International Semantic Web Conference held in Sydney, Australia in late October. Determined by a jury of leading experts in computer semantics from both academia and industry, Elsevier sponsored the challenge and prizes.
Albuquerque-based Access Innovations, a leader in semantic enrichment, celebrates its 35th anniversary this month. Officially incorporated on November 8, 1978, Access Innovations began like many other entrepreneurial enterprises — with a great idea, a few energetic people, and a little bit of capital. The company’s first headquarters was the kitchen of president and co-founder Marjorie M.K. Hlava’s home.
The next International Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) Seminar entitled "Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on October 24-25, 2013 in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at The Hague. This is the fourth in a series of International UDC Seminars devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment.
The SLA Taxonomy Division presents the second webinar in their Practical Classification series. Sharon Garewal, from JSTOR, and Marcie Zaharee, from MITRE, will each describe how they use tools to build thesauri and classify data. Mark your calendar now for October 3, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST. The webinars are free to division members. SLA members may attend for $15, or contact SLA to add the division for $20. Non-members may attend for $50. Register here.
Concept Searching released their webinar schedule for October 2013 and it includes a variety of topics such as SharePoint, Office 365, solving business challenges, IT trends, and as well as a ‘How To’ technology series. The webinars feature experts in their respective fields.