Posts Tagged ‘Indexing’
Metadata Collection Going Away
The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT) was a collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images. We just received word that the APT will no longer be available effective August 31, 2015. The APT used contemporary Australian terminology to describe objects, people, places and structures, activities and concepts depicted in an image. It ensures the common…
Read MoreNew Digital Assets Available
The British Library is the largest library collection in the world, with more than 170 million items in its catalog. Interestingly, though, only 14 million of these are books. Among the manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and video recordings, and so much more, there are prints and drawings. In an effort to make some of…
Read MoreArchiving Sound
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University is home to the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings. Recently, they uploaded and made available their whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. This very interesting information came from Chart Attack in their article, “The world’s largest natural sound archive just went up online.” In this archive, 9,000…
Read MoreThe Value Added by Folksonomies
As content is organized, the standard approaches include hierarchical or flat. One or both utilize tags to put labels on the content, which makes the information easily retrievable when the user needs access. Tags can be used as a part of filtering search queries or fixed views of a content source. Tags are created in…
Read MoreArchivists Add Value
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Word of the Week is a weekly email produced by SAA’s Dictionary Working Group that defines new archives terms as well as updates of entries from the 2005 A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. SAA is seeking feedback on these proposed definitions as well as suggestions for new terms. This…
Read MoreThe Value of a Taxonomy in Archiving
Archiving and storing historical records for the future is an admirable task. The North Vancouver Museum and Archives (NVMA) has been doing that since 1971. This interesting news came from the Eloquent blog in their post, “Online Archives promote Community Heritage. The NVMA acquires the records of organizations and individuals whose activities document the historical, social,…
Read MoreGrants for Digital Archiving
A unique opportunity comes around once a year with the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program. With funding provided by The Recording Academy (aka The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, or NARAS), the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants each year to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of…
Read MoreThe Complexity of Knowledge Organization
If you didn’t make it to the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation (IKO) conference in Singapore last month, don’t worry. The conference materials and a post-conference newsletter are available free online. Though it isn’t quite as good as being there in person, you can still read what Margie Hlava (President of Access Innovations) and Bob Kasenchak (Director of…
Read MoreLearn How to Increase Findability
Enterprise Search & Discovery is holding their annual summit in Washington D.C. on November 3-5, 2015. This year’s theme is “Delivering on the Promise of Search.” This event is a good opportunity to learn about new technologies, next generation information access, and interesting approaches to search and discovery. Who should attend the Enterprise Search &…
Read MoreIntegraCoder® Version 2.0, Powered by Data Harmony®, Now Available Through Major EMR companies
IntegraCoder Version 2.0, the medical coding application developed by Access Integrity, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., and coding experts Find-A-Code, is now available as a component in the offerings of some of the nation’s largest electronic medical record (EMR) companies. Medical providers will now have access to the latest version of this application based…
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