Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomies’
Age and Security Concerns
How safe is your personal data? Do you even know all the locations that holds your data? Work, home, social media? Don’t worry, few people do. I often hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to believe is “just true.” Protecting…
Read MorePharmacognosy is Making Content Findable
The pharmaceutical industry is finding natural products a source of chemical and biological inspiration. Science Trends brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “Pharmacognosy In The Digital Era.” Pharmacognosy is defined as the study of biologically active natural products and their uses by humans for healing purposes. Though you may not have heard of…
Read MoreTaxonomy: Where to Start?
When you hear the word taxonomy, you may be thinking about grouping, defining, and naming animals and plants based on their shared characteristics. This may not be the case if you are responsible for creating or managing content on a website. You have already been faced with the challenge of choosing terms that label or describe…
Read MoreArtificial Revolution
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not new. Many applications being utilized today have incorporated AI into their technology. This will likely not be changing anytime soon. This technology has the potential to advance our world as we know it. This interesting topic came to us from Analytics India in their article, “Understanding The Artificial Intelligence Taxonomy And…
Read MoreTaxonomies of Today
As the world of technology and data management changes and machine learning advances, there is a renewed interest in the value taxonomies and ontologies can bring to the project. KM World brought this interesting information to us in their article, “The Importance of ‘Smart’ Taxonomy- and Ontology-Enabled Resources.” Recently Deborah McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair, &…
Read MoreData Harmony Users Group East Scheduled
Get out your calendar and plan to attend the Data Harmony Users Group East (DHUGE) 2019. Scheduled for November 8, 2019 in Washington D.C. Registration is open but this is the first promotion so take advantage and register today, because only 45 people can attend. Keynote speakers will be announced soon. “The DHUG East agenda…
Read MoreMaking the Relationship Work
As in dating or marriage, relationships are at the core of success. Making the same comparison in business or information technology might not be as different as you would think. The power of relationships when it comes to data and how you manage that data, is key to successfully locating and applying that data at…
Read MoreSLA Webinar on Controlled Vocabularies
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) Taxonomy Division’s Professional Development Series is offering a February webinar featuring a familiar taxonomist – their own Heather Hedden – senior vocabulary editor at Gale, a Cengage Company, presenting on Licensing Controlled Vocabularies. A custom-created controlled vocabulary/taxonomy is best, but there are situations in which licensing a controlled vocabulary published by a third…
Read MoreMachine Learning, Taxonomies and Career Placement
It is always interesting to see how technology, especially new technology, is being used by organizations. One of the more interesting ones is that LinkedIn is now using machine learning to determine skills of people. WebPro News brought this topic to us in their article, “How LinkedIn is Using Machine Learning to Determine Skills.” With…
Read MoreDigital Asset Librarian 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.…
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