Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomies’
Classifying You and I
The human sense of responsibility and role in ethics have been under scrutiny since the beginning of time. Interest in responsibility has crossed domains as diverse as moral responsibility, leadership, social behavior, and education. Science Trends brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “The Mode Of Responsibility As An Individual Characteristic: Creating A Taxonomy…
Read MoreTaxonomy and Color Charts
Classification comes in many forms and on many topics…and in many colors. This interesting topic came to us from The Washington Post in their article, “This ‘color bible’ informed Darwin (and inspired some seriously pricey paint).” During Charles Darwin’s time on the HMS Beagle’s naturalist, he collected more than 1,500 animal and plant specimens and…
Read MoreThe Father of Taxonomy
The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active biological society. Founded in 1788 by Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828), who was its first President. The Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological, and library collections have been in its keeping since 1829. These unique collections are…
Read MorePlaying in the Gene Pool
Researchers have developed a new online tool that allows users to navigate through an interactive microbial tree of life and to generate new scientific hypotheses and discoveries. This interesting news came to us from Phys.org in their article, “Powerful online tool will help researchers make new genomic discoveries.” Through AnnoTree’s Web-based interface, users may query…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Delivers Indexing System for PLI
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the release of a new document indexing and repository system for the Practising Law Institute (PLI). PLI contracted Access Innovations, Inc. to create an Indexing Platform and Taxonomy Term Management system as an integrated solution. In addition, PLI sought to enhance its…
Read MoreTaxonomy’s Role in Climate Change
The European Commission’s expert group on sustainable finance recently published its final recommendations for a taxonomy of environmentally sustainable activities, which is at the heart of the European Union executive’s plan to harness the finance sector for its fight against climate change. “For the taxonomy to work in practice, investors will need data about company…
Read MoreTaxonomy Manager Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…
Read MoreTaxonomy of Classes is Not Fixed
The core ideological features of Marxism-Leninism include the belief that a revolutionary proletarian class would not emerge automatically from capitalism. Instead, there was the need for a professional revolutionary vanguard party to lead the working class in the violent overthrow of capitalism, to be followed by a dictatorship of the proletariat as the first stage…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Completes Mapping Engagement with EDO
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the successful completion of a data taxonomy project with leading data analytics company EDO Inc., who contracted with Access Innovations to build a proprietary taxonomy to enable marketers to easily search, view, and compare TV advertisements. The project required Access Innovations, Inc.…
Read MoreTaxonomy Architect Opportunity Available
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…
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