Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Bob Kasenchak to present as Part of FEDLINK’s Building Web Taxonomies Program
Bob Kasenchak, Director of Business Development for Access Innovations, Inc., will be presenting at the Building Web Taxonomies program, sponsored by the Federal Library & Information Network (FEDLINK). Bob will discuss smart thesauri, how to build and implement them into an existing workflow, and what they can do for analytics and linked data. FEDLINK conducts…
Read MoreManaging Massive Content
JSTOR Labs projects have begun utilizing more article-specific terms, or keywords. For example, in both Understanding Shakespeare and Classroom Readings, you’ll find keywords underneath article titles, separated by vertical pipes. This interesting topic came from the JSTOR blog post, “Labs’ No-Longer-Secret Ingredient: the JSTOR Thesaurus.” JSTOR has content across virtually all of the academic disciplines from hundreds…
Read MoreChoosing Non-Preferred (and Preferred) Terms for a Thesaurus
© Kellyplz | Dreamstime.com – Squirrels Making Wishes. Photo Synonyms and other non-preferred terms are largely what make a taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) a thesaurus. They can enrich a vocabulary in a variety of ways. Searches on a vocabulary can take advantage of non-preferred synonyms to direct the search from those words or phrases…
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Expert System has confirmed its commitment to the oil and gas industry by announcing an enriched offer dedicated to the sector and the expansion of its sales team to better serve customers in the Houston area. Digital Journal brought this news to us in their article, “Expert System Enhances Its Commitments in the Oil & Gas Industry.”…
Read MoreChoosing Broader and Narrower Terms
Photo by Fanghong, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian-Matroshka.jpg / CC BY-SA 3.0 As most readers of this blog know, taxonomies are controlled vocabularies in which the terms are arranged hierarchically. Terms representing the broadest concepts are at the top level, and terms representing more specific concepts within those concepts are placed at a deeper level. The result is a…
Read MoreOntologist Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, 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 MoreOrganized Information
While not a true taxonomy, a recent look at the history of educational development elsewhere in the world classifies a diverse range of educational ideas and practices that have arisen with the development of mass education. This interesting information came from The News on Sunday in their article, “History of educational development.” Gathering this depth of…
Read MoreCategorizing the Films
It is always interesting to me when I find taxonomies of interesting and unusual topics. Even if they aren’t true taxonomies, they are typically classifications of some form or another, and they provide information, which is after all, the goal. The latest find: Data Lab’s recently published “The Four Types Of Tom Cruise Movies.” This…
Read MoreArchiving Sound
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University is home to the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings. Recently, they uploaded and made available their whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. This very interesting information came from Chart Attack in their article, “The world’s largest natural sound archive just went up online.” In this archive, 9,000…
Read MoreThe Value Added by Folksonomies
As content is organized, the standard approaches include hierarchical or flat. One or both utilize tags to put labels on the content, which makes the information easily retrievable when the user needs access. Tags can be used as a part of filtering search queries or fixed views of a content source. Tags are created in…
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