Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Defining Analytics
Qlik has introduced a new analytics platform to support the development of custom analytics applications, including web mash-ups. Business Wire brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Qlik Introduces Developer Platform for Data Visualization and Analysis.” The Qlik® Analytics Platform is designed specifically for developers to build data-driven apps to power and differentiate…
Read MoreCool Taxonomies
In a discussion about larger cities, their actual residents and their desired residents, one writer asked some interesting questions about hipsters. This interesting topic was found on Forbes in their article, “Childless Cities? Bring In The Hipsters.” You already know my fascination with interesting taxonomies on interesting and unusual subjects. This article caught my eye…
Read MoreNext stop – Boston!
Are you headed to the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference in Boston this week? We will see you there. Margie Hlava, President of Access Innovations, Inc. and Bob Kasenchak, Head of Product Development, will be leading a workshop titled, “So You Have a Taxonomy…Now What? Advanced Taxonomy Topics.” The workshop addresses the next steps beyond just…
Read MoreDown the Rabbit Hole
As many readers know, the main U.S. standard for taxonomies, thesauri, and other controlled vocabularies is ANSI/NISO Z39.19, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. The material on vocabulary displays covers types of vocabulary displays that might be unfamiliar. I’m guessing that some of these displays emerged as the result of…
Read MoreTrue Taxonomies
Because there is no reliable way to choose strategies that are appropriate for implementing guidelines facing different barriers, a scoping systematic review was performed on MEDLINE and EMBASE covering the years from 2004 to 2013. From studies that evaluated the implementation of guidelines on arthritis, diabetes, colorectal cancer, and heart failure, the data was extracted and summarized. Interventions were…
Read MoreThose Voices in Your Head
This interesting taxonomy caught my eye partly because it was different and partly because I was relieved other people had voices in their head too. The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest brought some interesting information to us in their article, “A preliminary taxonomy of the voices inside your head.” I joke, of course. Well, mostly.…
Read MoreBringing the Past to the Future
Going digital has many meanings, depending on the genre of data and on the type of business involved. For the Library of Congress, this is a pretty big deal. NPR brought this very interesting news to us in their article, “A Long Way From Wax Cylinders, Library Of Congress Slowly Joins The Digital Age.” The Library…
Read MoreCloudy with a chance of crab cakes
(Note: Back in November of 2013, TaxoDiary published the post “A Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification“, about the cloud formation tentatively labeled as Asperatus undulatus and the quest to achieve an official classification for it. The article below, which first appeared in the Apalachicola Times on April 8, 2015, focuses on matters of terminology concerning…
Read MoreForward Thinking Technology
Tom Simonite recently shared this in the MIT Technology Review: “Many of the devices around us may soon acquire powerful new abilities to understand images and video, thanks to hardware designed for the machine-learning technique called deep learning. Companies like Google have made breakthroughs in image and face recognition through deep learning, using giant data…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Releases Data Harmony® Version 3.10
The Data Harmony Suite provides content management solutions to improve information organization by systematically applying a taxonomy or thesaurus in total integration, with patented content extraction methods. MAIstro™, the award-winning flagship software module of the Data Harmony product line, combines Thesaurus Master® (for taxonomy creation and maintenance) with M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer) for interactive text analysis and better subject tagging. XIS® (XML Intranet System) offers powerful content management and metadata creation tools and completes the Data Harmony Suite.
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