Search – Page 26 – Taxodiary

Finding the Lost

By Melody Smith | March 17, 2015

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.

Call for Speakers for Enterprise Search & Discovery 2015

By Melody Smith | March 9, 2015

Here is an opportunity to share your experiences and perspective at the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2015 in Washington, DC on November 3-5, 2015.

Taxonomy and Tagging in SharePoint Webinar

By Melody Smith | March 9, 2015

Another learning opportunity for corporate librarians or information architects or those working on creating a corporate taxonomy or a managed metadata project in SharePoint. This webinar is focused on those struggling with the challenge of tagging documents with relevant metadata in SharePoint or dealing with complaints about the difficulty in searching content and documents in SharePoint.

Google It

By Melody Smith | March 4, 2015

Google has started on an adventure that could change health care and medicine as well as add a whole new avenue of work. Google’s Head of Life Sciences, Andrew Conrad, recently announced that the company is building a nanoparticle platform that could one day be used to continuously measure a person’s health through ingestible nanoparticles.

Searching for Art

By Melody Smith | February 17, 2015

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.

New Resource Available

By Melody Smith | February 5, 2015

The term corporate librarian isn’t heard much these days. In the world of downsizing, redundancy, and streamlining, most organizational charts seem to be missing this very valuable position. There is a new resource out there addressing this very problem. “Corporate Libraries: Basic Principles in a Changing Landscape.”

Improving the Results

By Melody Smith | February 4, 2015

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.

Packrats Unite

By Melody Smith | January 13, 2015

Here we are at the beginning of a new year. Resolutions aside, it is great time to take inventory of your records and evaluate your records management plan.

Expanding the Search

By Melody Smith | January 13, 2015

Sometimes I mess around with the Siri app on my iPhone, but that is the extent of that. However I have noticed more and more of my friends actually using the talk feature on their mobile phone to search the Internet. It is their verbal Google.

Making Your Content Findable

By Melody Smith | January 8, 2015

Concept Searching is addressing the business and technology challenges of migration, security, records management, and information governance through new add-on software to its already existing Smart Content Framework. conceptTaxonomyWorkflow serves as a strategic tool, managing enterprise metadata to drive business processes at both the operational and tactical levels.