Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Are You My Mummy?
Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. The Animal Mummy Database search interface provides a good example of taxonomic facets. You can browse by Animal Type, Wrapping Type, or Museum.
Read MoreMarjorie M.K. Hlava’s Taxobook Published by Morgan Claypool
Access Innovations, Inc. is proud to announce the publication of The Taxobook, a three-volume series on taxonomies and thesauri, written by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president of Access Innovations. The three volumes are part of a larger series, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, edited by Gary Marchionini, Dean of the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Read More99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
Taxonomies and classifications are not only helpful, but critical to making your content findable. This is true regardless of the topic or data – even when it is beer.
Read MoreCommon Factors
What do legal jurisdictions and leprechauns have in common? More than one might think. In the world of classification, words like extinct and endangered could be applied to both and many more genres.
Read MoreThe Value of Taxonomies
The release of SemantiCz™ v2.0 with new features can help generate relationships with precise, subject-specific contextual accuracy. Users will be able to manage multiple versions of domain-specific ontologies and vocabularies in various languages, as well as extract relationships from content using advanced text mining algorithms.
Read MoreThe Ghosts of Concepts Future
As taxonomists, we have a responsibility to discern those future concepts, although they may still be invisible to most. We can save the various expressions of those concepts in search logs from being rejected from consideration for a vocabulary simply on account of their as yet infrequent appearance. In a taxonomy or thesaurus, we can provide labels that will consolidate the indexing for a concept for which researchers have not yet settled on a name. In some cases, especially with widely used vocabularies, we can perhaps determine the name by which a concept will be known on a standard basis.
Read MoreContent Migration Success Relies on Solid Taxonomy
Installing a new digital asset management (DAM) system can be a challenge. After a great deal of planning and coordination across multiple departments and groups, the biggest task is left – the migration of existing assets from one or more sources into the new DAM system.
Read MoreReference Works Available
Information Services & Use, a highly respected journal in the area of information science and technology, is sharing in their latest issue, a selection of papers presented at the 9th conference of Academic Publishing in Europe earlier in 2014, combined with a selection of papers of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing mid-year in Greece.
Read MoreAdditional Active Searching Techniques for Taxonomy Resources
To continue our theme from last time: “For every minute spent in organizing an hour is earned” (Unknown).
This quotation helps us remember the importance of developing online search techniques that will help you “save” time (or, at least allocate your time wisely!). Previously, we looked at keyword searching on the open web and in full-text search environments. Today, let’s consider another active search technique. This one takes advantage of online website directories.
Read MoreIdentifying New Life
After all these years, decades, and centuries of scientific investigation, new living organisms are still being discovered and identified. The hope that new life brings as other animal species are becoming extinct brings hope. At least twelve new species of butterflies/moths have been identified just this month.
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