By Melody Smith|November 20th, 2014|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Making Digital Content Findable
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) program is planned to consolidate a massive amount of scattered biomedical research data. It was recently announced that the program will include the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, which received a $9.2 million grant.
By Melody Smith|November 19th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Learn More About SharePoint
Do you struggle with finding items that have been stored in Sharepoint? If you are looking for assistance and how to improve access to your internal documents, this webinar might be just what you are looking for.
By Melody Smith|November 19th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Following the Lead
We have talked a lot lately about digital projects. In today’s increasingly digital world, it is important that the American public has access to all appropriate federal government communications to improve transparency and increase trust.
By Melody Smith|November 18th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Call for Papers for IASSIST
There is a call for papers for the next International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) conference in June of 2015. IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences.
By Melody Smith|November 18th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Enhanced Ways to Find Enhanced Data
Researchers at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world’s most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens.
By Melody Smith|November 4th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Good Housekeeping Enhances Findability
Many industries, including law firms, still struggle to incorporate the basics of records management systems. Though some look on such systems as an archaic form of organization, digitization and technology have made it today’s answer to findability. Of course this only applies when it is done properly.
By Melody Smith|October 27th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on But No Rudolph
An interesting find in the world of taxonomies today, Platter-saurus - a thesaurus of 20th century musical styles, artists, and titles. This website is also available in a printed book format (limited quantities available) and CD-ROM. The advantage of the book and CD-ROM is that you can explore Musical Categories and find artists and song titles you may not have heard of before or perhaps have forgotten.
By Melody Smith|October 23rd, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Power of Metadata
The publishing industry has long been reliant on digital information to sell books in all formats. More and more, publishers are considering the tools they use to manage the publishing process. Their challenges include inefficient tools, often requiring replication of work to process what is essentially the same data for different uses.
I am still surprised at the variety of taxonomies I found and I typically find them in the oddest places. This one came from ECNS in their article, "Male outcast taxonomy." Though not a true taxonomy, its classification efforts are as unique as the topic.
By Melody Smith|October 22nd, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Adding to the Data
The European Training Thesaurus (ETT) is Cedefop’s controlled vocabulary used to index the VET-Bib (the Reference Library of Vocational Education and Training in Europe) bibliographic database.