Taxodiary – tagging

The Ins and Outs of Researcher and Contributor Data

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.

Lists Large and Small: Let Me Count the Ways

By Melody Smith|November 18th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy, Term lists|1 Comment

We taxonomists love lists. For us, they are raw materials, the stuff we love to get our hands on to start organizing. I recently came across a couple of lists with crossover appeal and relevance beyond simple conceptual organization. Both address why we do this stuff and how we help turn information into actionable knowledge.

Smart Search Equals Smart Content

By Melody Smith|March 8th, 2012|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smart Search Equals Smart Content

Medical search engine and database tools aren’t all equal. Depending on your needs, a clinician could gain access to dynamic data to diagnose and treat patients must faster than ever before. One of these options is ClinicalKey, which is now in beta testing.

Improving Content and Classifications

By Melody Smith|December 9th, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News, ontology|Comments Off on Improving Content and Classifications

Wielding SAS Text Analytics helps to reduce manual tagging, improves search results and supports ad revenue generation. This improved digital content performance is achieved by indexing, tagging and classifying data so that the ultimate in findability is achieved.

Time for Standards

By Melody Smith|October 21st, 2011|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Time for Standards

The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) has went on record saying the concept of metadata in electronic health records (EHR) is too new and unreliable to require tagging in EHRs in Stage 2.

Labeling or Profiling?

By Melody Smith|October 17th, 2011|News, semantic, Term lists|Comments Off on Labeling or Profiling?

Labeling people based on behaviors is not a new technology or even behavior. This has been done since the beginning of time. However, with the advancement of semantic technology and the flood of data available, it has become overwhelming to discern a simplified approach to organization.

Semantic Enrichment Solutions

By Melody Smith|October 14th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Enrichment Solutions

TEMIS has launched the next generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment solution, Luxid(R). This semantic tagging platform automatically extracts relevant information and identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents.

Flickr as a Folksonomy

By Melody Smith|May 17th, 2011|Folksonomy, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Flickr as a Folksonomy

Remember when you took film to be developed and then shared your packets of memories with friends? It seems so nostalgic, but this routine was occurring only a few years ago. Then came the age of digital photos which led to online photo sites, of which Flickr was born.

How Secure is Your Geodata?

By Melody Smith|March 7th, 2011|Featured, metadata|1 Comment

There has been lots of talk lately about stalkers locating you based on the photos you post online using your smart phone or GPS enabled mobile phone. I have received numerous emails from concerned friends and family warning me of the dire straits and danger lurking around the next photo I post of my dogs at the park. Truthfully, I deleted them all. “It’s just another urban myth,” I thought to myself.

Automatic Tagging – How Intuitive Is It?

By Melody Smith|August 24th, 2010|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Automatic Tagging – How Intuitive Is It?

Open Text Content Analytics engine that intelligently extracts meaning, sentiment and context from content.