Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Take Advantage of Taxonomy 101, a Full Day Workshop Taught by Experts at the SLA 2018 Annual Conference
Taxonomies organize a collection of information – structured or unstructured – and they underpin search in many applications. Taxonomy 101 provides the basics for knowledge organization, outlining “nuts and bolts” of building a taxonomy, where to start, and where to implement it to realize the most benefit to an organization. Bring your questions and join…
Read MoreTaxonomy Specialist 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 MoreWhat to Expect from SharePoint 2019
SharePoint 2019 is on the horizon and there are many expectations around Microsoft’s promises for the future. CMS Wire brought this interesting information to us in their article, “ICYMI: Sharepoint 2019 Hopes, Machine Learning Needs and More.” Microsoft has already told us that when the product is released in the last half of 2018 it will…
Read MoreCapturing Ancient Medical Knowledge with Taxonomies
A collaboration between a Chinese university and Elsevier is undertaking the momentous task of cataloguing traditional Chinese medical knowledge as global clinical practice increasingly seeks to combine conventional and Eastern techniques. Healthcare IT News brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Elsevier to collaborate in cataloguing traditional Chinese medicine as global interest…
Read MoreDrama in Taxonomy Naming Conventions
In the world of taxonomy, names are very important. This interesting and slightly humorous information came to our attention from the Ottawa Citizen in their article, “‘These British hosers’: Name ‘vandals’ accused of giving taxonomy a bad name.” Due to some vandalism, biologists are up in arms about the redundancy in species names. Considering the rate…
Read MoreAI in New Places
Artificial intelligence (AI) is very popular right now. It is showing up in many different types of business and in some interesting places in the business environment and processes. This interesting information came to us from Spend Matter sin their article, “Getting Real with Artificial Intelligence in Procurement.” It also has the potential to be the…
Read MoreThe World of Bees
I sat on the porch yesterday for the first time this spring, such as it is. It was so nice to enjoy the sun and warm breeze. What was not so nice was the array of bees who too was enjoying the warm sun and my place of peace. Besides disturbing my “porch time”, my…
Read MoreSemantic Enrichment Manager Position 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.…
Read MoreData Engineer/Taxonomist 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…
Read MoreLibrary of Congress Assigns Marc Classification Code To Access Innovations’ Geothes
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce that the Library of Congress has assigned a Classification Scheme Source Code to Access Innovations’ GEOTHES. This code assignment adds GEOTHES to the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) standard. MARC was developed in thttp://www.log.gov/he 1960s by Henriette Avram, working with the U.S. Library of…
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