standards

Standards Come with Experience

By |January 22nd, 2014|News, semantic, Standards|Comments Off on Standards Come with Experience

Foxtel has selected Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery to provide metadata management to support its pay TV services on both broadcast and IPTV platforms.

Taxonomies to the Rescue

By |December 31st, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomies to the Rescue

MEDLINE citations are manually indexed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), using as reference the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) controlled vocabulary. In the past, human indexers read the full text of the article to properly index. However, due to growth, the NLM is exploring automatic indexing options. 7th Space Interactive brought this topic to our attention in their article, “MeSH indexing based on automatically generated summaries.”

New ANSI Portal

By |November 4th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on New ANSI Portal

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has officially launched the ANSI IBR Portal, an online tool for free, read-only access to voluntary consensus standards that have been incorporated by reference (IBR) into federal laws and regulations.

Lost Without Standards

By |November 1st, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Lost Without Standards

With Apple’s Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to dispute that the semantic web is no longer a pipe dream. Yet, there are those who are doing just that. This topic was inspired by an article on Wamda titled, “Links Are Not Answers: Cairo’s Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search.”

Honoring the Standards and the Standards Makers

By |October 17th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Honoring the Standards and the Standards Makers

There is a National Ice Cream Day, a National Hopscotch Day, and a World Beard Day, so why shouldn't there be a World Standards Day?

Standards for All Sizes

By |September 6th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards for All Sizes

The American National Standards Institute's Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) has announced the launch of a new database compiling information about nanotechnology-related standards and affiliated activities. This new database is part of a larger project by the ANSI-NSP to increase the visibility of existing and in-progress documents in relation to nanotechnology.

Dedication to Standards Recognized

By |August 15th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Dedication to Standards Recognized

The American National Standards Instittude (ANSI) recently named John Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, is pleased to announce that John Siemon, CTO and vice president of global operations at Siemon, a recipient of the 2013 Leadership and Service Award.

Seeking Consistency and Standards

By |August 8th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Seeking Consistency and Standards

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members recently approved a new project to develop recommended practices for Packaging and Exchanging Serial Content. Many different organizations, including libraries, archives, indexing services, etc., work better and more efficiently when they exchange and work with digital files that make up serial content. However, these files are in some type of package that isn’t always the same or compatible.