Taxodiary – linked data

Linked Data is a Hot Topic

By Melody Smith|January 14th, 2016|Access Insights, metadata, News|Comments Off on Linked Data is a Hot Topic

Everyone can use a little help now and again. Bob Kasenchak from Access Innovations will be facilitating a free webinar on January 22, 2016 at […]

Choosing Related Terms

By admin|August 17th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Term lists|Comments Off on Choosing Related Terms

Source: Dreamstime

Which quiche? You’ll have to read to the end to find out.

As many of our readers are aware, hierarchical thesauri are distinguished from […]

The Complexity of Knowledge Organization

By admin|July 30th, 2015|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The 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 […]

Smart Thesauri: Using Taxonomies with Linked Data

By Melody Smith|July 6th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smart Thesauri: Using Taxonomies with Linked Data

Note: A full version of this article is scheduled to be published in an upcoming issue of the IKO eNewsletter.

As interest in Linked Data […]

Inline Tagging Facilitating Linked Data

By Melody Smith|September 22nd, 2014|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Inline Tagging Facilitating Linked Data

Access Innovations recently debuted Data Harmony Version 3.9 and, within its new features and fixes, is a sneakily clever module called Inline Tagging. On the surface, it does exactly what the name says; it allows the user to see in a piece of content, quickly and clearly, what concepts in the text got triggered and tagged by the software. It seems simple enough, a handy tool, but upon closer inspection, it really opens doors for the user.

Linked Open Data Brings Data Together

By Melody Smith|September 9th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Linked Open Data Brings Data Together

The Getty Research Institute has released the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) as Linked Open Data.

Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus Available as Linked Open Data

By Melody Smith|March 6th, 2014|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus Available as Linked Open Data

The venerable Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) has just been released in a Linked Open Data format. The Getty AAT was developed starting in the late 1970s for the art library and art journal indexing community. Since then it has undergone periodic revisions, and is well regarded in the controlled vocabulary community.

Mending the Relationships

By Melody Smith|February 17th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Mending the Relationships

LinkTek Corporation has released their LinkFixer Advanced software to help information management professionals avoid data loss during data migration.

Time to Play

By Melody Smith|September 27th, 2013|News|1 Comment

We learned in kindergarten that you can learn and play at the same time. So it shouldn't be a surprise that someone has introduced an application to visualize thesaurus, taxonomies or controlled vocabularies in an entertaining manner.

New Partnership in Data Management

By Melody Smith|May 29th, 2013|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on New Partnership in Data Management

Semantic Web Company (SWC) and OpenLink Integration Business Partner Program have joined together, making Virtuoso an important part of SWC's products and services.