Opportunities in the Field

In an effort to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are excited to share some career opportunities that we found 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.

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Professor Recognized for Semantic Contribution

Professor Ronen Feldman, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of text mining as well as co-founder and chief scientist at Digital Trowel, has been selected as one of five finalists to compete for the prestigious 2013 AQR Insight Award.

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In Memory of Dr. Peter Noerr

Dr. Peter Noerr was a towering intellectual force in the backrooms of the information industry. Quiet, infinitely curious, he created two systems and helped with many more. In his early days in South Africa he automated mining operations. Later he moved to Sweden and then to the UK. He created the TinLib system for IME. After selling that company he became MuseGlobal’s founder a federated search and retrieval system which operates as middle ware in many of the systems we use today.

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Access Innovations named to KMWorld’s annual 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, announces its inclusion on KMWorld’s annual list of the Top 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. Access Innovations is featured for its second year, after debuting on the list in 2005. Other notable companies given a spot on the 2013 top 100 list include Adobe, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.

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Best Practices Shared at DHUG

Building a thesaurus for a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, 15,000 scholarly books and other sources, is no easy task. Currently there is no one single thesaurus that holds the terms to cover all the subjects included in these collections. Nancy Murray, Associate Director, Metadata for JSTOR is taking on that challenge with the assistance of Access Innovations and Data Harmony.

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