Taxodiary – Findability

Indexing History One Record at a Time

By Melody Smith|July 14th, 2016|indexing, News, reference, search|Comments Off on Indexing History One Record at a Time

Genealogy projects have long been a great example of proper indexing against a solid database that produces great findability. One such project that was […]

The Role of Metadata in Genealogy

By admin|July 13th, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Role of Metadata in Genealogy

Metadata is data about data, regardless of what the data is about. If you think of the primary data as a library book, then […]

Search Technology Continues to Evolve

By admin|June 16th, 2016|News, search|Comments Off on Search Technology Continues to Evolve

Google’s RankBrain is a machine learning system that, along with other algorithm factors, helps to determine what the best results will be for a specific query set. […]

New Acquisition Makes Content Findable

By admin|June 9th, 2016|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Acquisition Makes Content Findable

Elsevier has acquired Hivebench, the flagship product of researcher application developer Shazino. This tool will be integrated into Elsevier’s existing Research Data Management portfolio, resulting […]

Trusting the Standards

By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 2016|News, search, Standards|Comments Off on Trusting the Standards

Trust is not likely to be a word used by many users when it comes to search results and ranking. The algorithms used in […]

Ensuring Findability With the Correct Tools

By Melody Smith|June 1st, 2016|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Ensuring Findability With the Correct Tools

The overwhelming amount of documents and data that we generate every day are not being safely stored and tracked. This is creating a problem […]

Remembrance Through Archiving and Cataloging

By admin|May 30th, 2016|Featured, reference|Comments Off on Remembrance Through Archiving and Cataloging

Memorial Day. It’s viewed as the unofficial start of summer. Public pools open, kids are out of school, and BBQ grills are fired up […]

Classifying the Classics

By Melody Smith|May 27th, 2016|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classifying the Classics

Taxonomy is about naming and classifying. That can be animals, minerals, music or even genres of literature. This interesting information came to us from The […]

Indexing for the Semantic Web

By Melody Smith|May 27th, 2016|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Indexing for the Semantic Web

Diffbot announces a new structured database that can automatically sort the web into human-like categories of knowledge. Marketing Land brought this news to our attention in their […]

My Kind of Library

By Melody Smith|May 24th, 2016|indexing, News|Comments Off on My Kind of Library

I love books, don’t get me wrong. But a library of wine? That is the newest library on the Cornell campus and it contains […]