Perspective is key as we hear time and time again. How one person or group of people look at a situation is likely very different from those on the other side of the coin. This is true with taxonomies as well. Who builds them and the perspective they bring to the project is key to its success or failure. The Financial Times brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Where new ideas take root.”
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.
By Melody Smith|October 20th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Collections
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|October 17th, 2014|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Data Everywhere
Data in every form, including digital and print, is growing at an exponential rate. According to the National Science Foundation, 90 percent of the data in existence today was created in the last two years. This interesting information was found on Federal News Radio in their article, “Data retention & records management.” The Presidential Directive on Managing Government Records, and initiatives such as the Open Data Policy, have begun to address this critical situation, but this is only the beginning.
By Melody Smith|October 17th, 2014|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Reviving the Past
Digitizing documents is a daunting task, especially when those documents are ancient.
By Melody Smith|October 10th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Unlocking the Classification of Plants
Linnaeus originally began designing and developing his taxonomic system by studying and classifying plants. This is the core, the foundation of the science and art of taxonomies today.
By Melody Smith|October 3rd, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Strong Data Needs Strong Management
Docassist Desktop has been released for easy transition to the cloud for mail or print documents to Docassist.
By Melody Smith|October 1st, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Ins and Outs of Researcher and Contributor Data
Making content findable to users, researchers, professionals, academics, etc., is a common goal. The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) launched its registry in October 2012 for this exact reason. Now they are on track to reach 1 million registrations at their 2-year anniversary this month. With over 150 members, almost half from academic or government research institutes, and one-quarter from the publishing sector, they are enabling research data exchange interoperability through integration of identifiers into research data systems and workflows.