Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Taxonomy Specialist Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, 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 MoreTaxonomies – What Are They Good For?
To make the search and browse capabilities of content, document or records management systems truly functional, we need to develop taxonomies. Whether it is a taxonomy designed for storage and management or one that supports better search, without them all types of management systems are virtually useless, regardless of the platform. Because many organizations are not…
Read MoreSenior Taxonomist Consultant Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, metadata, 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. Stefanini…
Read MoreTaxonomies and Content Management
The content management and storage side of the media business is not without its challenges, and one of the greatest is to prove their need to exist. This interesting information came from an unlikely source in Sports Video and their article, “SCMS Forum: Metadata, Taxonomy Strategies Critical to Proving Value of Content Management.” One way…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Develops Taxonomies for Leading Oncology Association; Automated Curation Saves Society’s Annual Meeting Attendees’ Time
Access Innovations, Inc. recently worked with the American Society for Clinical Oncology, Inc. (ASCO®) to help the Society enhance its search for more than 250,000 pieces of content stored across 20 different content management systems (CMS) platforms. To produce more targeted and accurate results for internal and external users and ultimately allow personalization and automated…
Read MoreClassifying Taxonomies
“Classification” and “taxonomy” are two closely related words that some people find confusing. Both terms reflect the fact that we encounter large amounts of information in everyday life and our brains need some way to synthesize and contextualize that information. Concepts like classification and taxonomy help us make sense of the world by improving our…
Read MoreTrue Taxonomists
Within the world of taxonomy — the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms — there are prolific people, and Raymond Hoser, an Australian researcher, is one of those. This interesting information came to us from the Smithsonian magazine in their article, “A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy.” By volume, Hoser is…
Read MoreThe Importance of Taxonomy To Master Data Management
More and more attention is being given to master data managment (MDM). This is the set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities of an organization. The benefits of the MDM paradigm increase as the number and diversity of organizational departments, worker roles and computing applications expand. For this reason,…
Read MoreTaxonomy Boot Camp
Taxonomy Boot Camp in London is quickly approaching. This information packed event is scheduled for October 17-18, 2017. The keynote speaker is Madi Weland Solomon, Independent Consultant and Owner/Managing Director of Dots Music Shop in the United Kingdom. The title of her segment is Kick the beehive: new approaches to building taxonomies for the real…
Read MoreThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Improves Semantic Enrichment of Digital Assets
In light of the new functionality that has been added to Access Innovations’ Machine Aided Indexer (M.A.I.®) software, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) took the opportunity to work with Access Innovations to update and refresh the machine aided indexing rule base for their taxonomy that was originally implemented 10 years ago. In…
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