Taxodiary – Indexing

Indexing Conference Offers More

By Melody Smith|April 14th, 2015|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Indexing Conference Offers More

The American Society for Indexing (ASI) is once again hosting their annual conference, this time in Seattle, Washington. This comprehensive event is scheduled for April 29-May 1, 2015 and is considered the primary source for information and education about indexing.

Thumbing Through Thesauri

By Melody Smith|April 14th, 2015|News, reference|Comments Off on Thumbing Through Thesauri

The International Labour Organization (ILO) makes available a number of excellent resources in the field of Occupational Safety and Health.

Giving Back

By Melody Smith|April 8th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Giving Back

Student and former teacher, Elizabeth Charlton, who completed her Diploma in Records and Information Management with the Open Polytechnic last year, has been awarded the Ian McLean Wards Scholarship and plans to put it to good use.

Learn More About Making Content Usable

By Melody Smith|March 19th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Learn More About Making Content Usable

The "Making Content Portable, Making It Usable" webinar is scheduled for March 27th. Early bird registration discount ends on Friday, March 20th.

Finding the Lost

By Melody Smith|March 17th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Finding the Lost

Technology continues to advance on a daily basis. What was wondrously new yesterday will seem archaic in just a few months. This “advancement” of technology has brought information to our fingertips at a faster speed than ever before and in unbelievable quantities.

Digital Commons Library – Open and Free

By Melody Smith|March 11th, 2015|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Digital Commons Library – Open and Free

The recent announcement of the Digital Commons Community Library provides a way of exploring bepress’s scholarly communication resources by subject matter -- free and open access.

Searching for Art

By Melody Smith|February 17th, 2015|News, search|Comments Off on Searching for Art

Classifying art has always been a challenge. Museum collections are mostly indexed in individual databases. This prohibits collaboration and comprehensive searching. The Smithsonian Museum of American Art (SAAM) hopes to change that. It has launched the American Art Collaborative (ACC), a consortium of 14 museums across the country that will connect these databases.

Visualizing History

By Melody Smith|February 11th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Visualizing History

In a series of papers studying the history of American innovation, Mikko Packalen at the University of Waterloo and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, indexed every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years. Why, you ask? They wanted to measure the significance of a new invention.

Solutions Abound

By Melody Smith|February 5th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Solutions Abound

Data management and archiving are key factors for businesses, as you all know. However, because terms like backup, archiving, and records management get used interchangeably so frequently, it is easy to forget that they are not the same thing.

Improving the Results

By Melody Smith|February 4th, 2015|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Improving the Results

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Innovative Interfaces (Innovative) have expanded their partnership designed to improve access to library resources. This will incorporate catalog functionality within the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) experience.