Taxodiary – Digital

Publishers Face Another Hurdle in the Digital World

By Melody Smith|March 1st, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Publishers Face Another Hurdle in the Digital World

The publishing industry is undergoing many changes as they enter the world of digital media. eBooks, online material and the paperless world has made a huge dent in their process and pocket books. With these changes, it has never been more important for good public relations and easily accessed reviews of their products, i.e. books, to be part of that digital media. So the move by Goodreads to no longer use Amazon’s book information for their readers, could have some massive impact on Amazon’s retail business.

Great Britain Education System Looks to Beef Up Computer Science Curriculum

By Melody Smith|February 9th, 2012|News, Technology|Comments Off on Great Britain Education System Looks to Beef Up Computer Science Curriculum

Computer science curriculum is making its way into the education system in Great Britain. The Royal Society labeled current offerings as “highly unsatisfactory.” According to these professionals, the education system is suffering from a shortage of teachers able to teach beyond basic digital literacy. They also pointed fingers at the lack of demand from high level educational institutions.

Document Management Services Extended to the Everyday Consumer

By Melody Smith|January 13th, 2012|News, storage|Comments Off on Document Management Services Extended to the Everyday Consumer

PaperErasers, Inc. is known for their online document management and scanning services. They are now offering a new service of advance paper management solutions to their customers, new and old.

The Digital Divide

By Melody Smith|December 30th, 2011|News, Technology|Comments Off on The Digital Divide

Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, so fast that it makes one wonder if users can keep up with the new terminology, skills and knowledge needed to navigate their way through new digital divides.

Fashion Indexed

By Melody Smith|December 26th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on Fashion Indexed

Vogue magazine has now opened up its digital archives to researchers. The 120 years of fashion history has been scanned from paper and turned into a digital data mine, completely indexed.

Gift Giving Idea

By Melody Smith|December 15th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on Gift Giving Idea

Still looking for that perfect gift for the historian or librarian in your life? How about a mobile scanner? This fun and useful product from Flip runs on four AA batteries and has a 2 GB SD memory card installed. The appearance is deceptive with only a 6.5x10 flatbed scanner, but it runs well and the quality of the images stood up to various forms of testing, according to one writer.

Improving Content and Classifications

By Melody Smith|December 9th, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News, ontology|Comments Off on Improving Content and Classifications

Wielding SAS Text Analytics helps to reduce manual tagging, improves search results and supports ad revenue generation. This improved digital content performance is achieved by indexing, tagging and classifying data so that the ultimate in findability is achieved.

Long Established Ancestry Site Opens Doors to Non-Members

By Melody Smith|October 27th, 2011|indexing, News|1 Comment

The Church of the Latter-day Saints have long been the front runners in ancestry and family history. They were knee-deep in files before the […]

Smart Software Identifying Images

By Melody Smith|September 30th, 2011|News, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on Smart Software Identifying Images

Wouldn’t it be nice if software could identify the contents of a digital image or video? The potential uses are endless -- security, photo library searches, and publishing; just to name a few.

Digital Book Library Might Be In Our Future

By Melody Smith|September 20th, 2011|News|1 Comment

Amazon is apparently in talks to launch a digital-books library run on the same premise as Netflix. For an annual fee, readers can read themselves silly on e-books of their choosing. There are no details available as to how advanced this process has moved, but it does make us wonder about the impact on brick and mortar libraries.