The American Historical Association (AHA) recently put together a draft revision of its taxonomy of the discipline and is inviting comment from members as it moves toward a final form of the document. The deadline for comment is September 30.
The increase in social media content offers everyone new challenges and opportunities. That is no different for taxonomists. Now they can define our own terms and hashtags as a basis for findability. This is the epitome of content tagging.
We talk a lot about taxonomy in the realm of indexing organizational information against a solid and strong taxonomy built within standards so that content is found easily. It is easy sometimes to forget that taxonomy originated with science. Classification of animals, plants, and other organisms into appropriate categories for easy reference. eBird is a traditional genus-species kind of taxonomy except for the part about being online and searchable.
Are you ready for boot camp? Have all your tools and gear packed and ready to learn? The Taxonomy Boot Camp is scheduled for November 4-5, 2014 in Washington D.C. as a precursor to the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 that we brought to you earlier this week.
Let it be said that I have no problem leaving a spider of any type un-named. I have no problem leaving them anywhere I am not going to be. But this interesting story caught my attention. The lack of taxonomists in the trade is starting to have visible effects.
I assume that the spell-checking feature in most software application is driven by some kind of dictionary or other controlled vocabulary. The user can usually add to this list or import a custom dictionary, but the stock set of “acceptable” words comes standard. Now, I understand that different organizations call for different hyphenation usage standards, so I’m not usually surprised when I’m typing and it flags an otherwise perfectly cromulent1 hyphenated word.
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently released the proposed 2015 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy for public review and comment. The deadline to submit written comments is October 31, 2014.
Whether you prefer him as Dirty Harry, Josey Wales or silent behind the camera powerfully directing Hilary Swank and Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood is a taxonomy unto himself. One can take a unique approach to categorizing things, depending on what is your purpose.