Classic Posts Summer – Entertaining Video by Librarians Tells a Story

Our regular blogger is out of commission while recovering from surgery. Please enjoy this classic blog post and be sure to watch the video! Entertaining Video by Librarians Tells a Story June 9, 2010 – Timely and entertaining, this home-made video also stresses the importance of proper indexing and cataloging. Students and faculty from the…

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Access Innovations Part of Powerful Collaboration

The global working professional Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) has chosen Xpublisher as its multichannel publishing software. The association will use the cloud-based software to digitalize and optimize its publishing workflows. XPublisher shared this news in their release, “AMPP paves the way for efficiency through process automation with Xpublisher.” The collaboration of Ariza,…

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The Importance of a Taxonomy

A taxonomy is a set of concepts organized into a hierarchical structure covering a topical domain. Whatever you are searching for, it is important to have a comprehensive search feature and quality indexing against a standards-based taxonomy. This interesting information came to our attention from Open Text in their blogpost, “The wielding force of a taxonomy.” Creating information…

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Navigating the Data with Taxonomies

Most organizations today face challenges as they accumulate volumes of data on premises and in the cloud. How do they begin to locate what’s valuable, sensitive, or relevant when the time comes, and in an expedited manner? Content without access is relatively worthless. Enterprise search is how an organization helps people seek the information they…

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Classifying and Indexing

A team of scientists in Austria has created a new artificial intelligence (AI) program to speed up their research. It automatizes the analysis of huge numbers of plant images. JStor Daily brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Botanists Use Machine Learning to Accelerate Research.” The study of plants involves identifying both…

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Access Innovations at 2021 DCMI

The theme of 2021 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Virtual is Metadata Innovation. This year’s event will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes, best practice sessions, expert panel discussions, invited talks, tutorials, and student and member forums. It is scheduled from October 4-15, 2021. Access Innovatons’ president, Marjorie Hlava, will be part of panel…

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New Data, Same Challenge

Data and the need for storage is not a new challenge. Indexing it in a way findability is expedient is important and again, not new. This interesting topic came to us from ARS Technica in their article, “A DNA-based storage system with files and metadata.” One of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to…

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Managing the Data with Taxonomies

Most organizations today face challenges as they accumulate volumes of data on premises and in the cloud. How do they begin to locate what’s valuable, sensitive, or relevant when the time comes, and in an expedited manner? Technology is almost always a good investment for organizations, especially if they are looking to justify information technology…

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