Taxodiary – reference

The Shift in Reading Behavior

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 2012|News, Technology|1 Comment

National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) members may be interested in a report stemming from a survey of 19,000 individuals conducted by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger. The report came from a 6-month research project and has the backing of leading publishers within International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), Humanities and Social Science. It compares the changing reader behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and as a result looks at the impact on publisher and library web site design and function.

Additional Data Added to Databases

By Melody Smith|November 5th, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Additional Data Added to Databases

The Library & Information Science Source is now available from EBSCO Publishing and that should make some librarians and researchers very happy.

Challenges of the Dictionary

By Melody Smith|October 18th, 2012|News, reference|Comments Off on Challenges of the Dictionary

American Heritage Dictionary recently published their fifth edition of what is known as the conservative dictionary. What is considered a conservative dictionary, you ask? It isn't because of its politics, it is due to the conservative usages it includes.

Research Advances in Digital World

By Melody Smith|July 4th, 2012|News, reference|Comments Off on Research Advances in Digital World

Emory sociologist Roberto Franzosi has collected more than 1,200 newspaper clips about lynchings in Georgia from 1875 to 1930. He is applying a research methodology and software program he developed to catalog and analyze the narrative data. Franzosi’s Georgia Lynching Project is one of the first four projects of the new Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC), which helps faculty and graduate students harness digital tools and resources.

Historical Information

By Melody Smith|May 23rd, 2012|News, reference, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Historical Information

Sometimes we stumble across a website that intrigues us and that we want to share with you. This is one of those times. Jeremy Norman’s From Cave Paintings to the Internet – Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media is full of interesting data presented in a way that is close to our hearts. You can search by timeline, by topic, and even by category. The website is arranged so that you can approach the history of information from many different viewpoints.

Crowdsourcing Research

By Melody Smith|May 8th, 2012|News, reference|Comments Off on Crowdsourcing Research

One recent report has identified some modern challenges facing physical science researchers. The report was commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Institute of Physics (IOP), IOP Publishing (IOPP), and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

New Book Addresses Ontologies

By Melody Smith|March 29th, 2012|Folksonomy, News, ontology, reference, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century" traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.

EBSCO Launches eBook Subscription

By Melody Smith|March 29th, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on EBSCO Launches eBook Subscription

EBSCO Publishing has released their first subscription eBook collection - eBook Academic Subscription Collection™. The full-text eBooks cover a broad spectrum of academic subjects with the nearly 70,000 titles.

Digital Asset Conference This Month

By Melody Smith|February 6th, 2012|News, reference|Comments Off on Digital Asset Conference This Month

The digital asset management community will be gathering in Beverly Hills in a couple weeks at Createasphere's Digital Asset Management (DAM) Conference. The event will encompass a variety of topics including the escalating challenges of production workflow, content protection, transmedia, disaster recovery, semantics, metadata, taxonomy, and more. Their services and this event are targeted towards an equal variety of fields including advertising, broadcasting, entertainment, new media, publishing, and non-profits.

Taxonomy Meetings 2011 – A Year of Change or Realization?

By Melody Smith|January 9th, 2012|Access Insights, Business strategy, Featured, reference, Taxonomy|1 Comment

What are the meetings that cater to people who use controlled vocabularies, like taxonomies? Where should a taxonomist go, click, or attend to learn about the latest implementations and uses of controlled vocabulary strategies? Every company thinks long and hard both about what they do and where to find customers for their products and services. The Information Industry is no different. In the Age of the Internet when everyone’s “knows” about searching and information; it seems like the “information Industry” should be booming, its conferences should be huge, and the attendance incredible, but that is not the case. Why? If the information industry and our little taxonomy segment of the business has gone mainstream, then where are all the people you would expect at the long established industry meetings?