Taxodiary – Taxonomy

Data Harmony Version 3.9 Shines a Spotlight On Inline Tagging Web-based Service Extension

By Melody Smith|August 4th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Harmony Version 3.9 Shines a Spotlight On Inline Tagging Web-based Service Extension

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Data Harmony software line now includes inline tagging capability, beginning with Version 3.9, released earlier this year. Inline Tagging Feature In Data Harmony 3.9 Installations Employing inline tags, the TestMAI screen in the MAIstro™ module now displays matching content in a highlighted font when a Data Harmony user runs M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer), putting the focus on indexing concepts as they appear in the input text. XML elements are applied in the text at the exact location where a word or phrase triggered a term suggestion from the controlled vocabulary (taxonomy or thesaurus).

Buzzwords, Bling, and Being Snowed

By Melody Smith|July 28th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Buzzwords, Bling, and Being Snowed

I recently had the opportunity to see webinars featuring a couple of software systems for taxonomy construction/management and content categorization. The systems were both impressive and, if I didn't have 20 years in the business, I would have been totally awed ... and snowed. It's easy to be overwhelmed by a slick appearance and professional presentation.

Digitization is Here

By Melody Smith|July 25th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Digitization is Here

The Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is concerned that organizations are not properly prepared for the world of digitization that has arrived. This interesting […]

Trees, Fractals, and Taxonomies

By Melody Smith|July 21st, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Trees, Fractals, and Taxonomies

If you look at a branch of a typical deciduous tree, you can see that it looks like a smaller tree. Likewise, that branch branches off into smaller branches that look like even smaller trees. This characteristic of trees is an example of what mathematicians, biologists, and systems scientists call self-similarity. Self-similar systems repeat their basic geometry at smaller and smaller scales, creating multiple miniatures of themselves at different scales. In general, natural and mathematical systems in which self-similarity results in complex and detailed patterns are referred to as fractal systems.

Standards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven

By Melody Smith|July 17th, 2014|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Standards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven

A recent study revealed an open standard for fixed-income reference data would better coordinate taxonomies, even with the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council's Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO).

Thesaurus evolution – a case study in “Synthetic biology”

By Melody Smith|July 14th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Thesaurus evolution – a case study in “Synthetic biology”

The following post, by Rachel Drysdale, originally appeared in PLOS BLOGS on April 8, 2014.
Science does not stand still and neither does the PLOS […]

Access Innovations, Inc. Now Accepting Presentation Abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

By Melody Smith|July 7th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. Now Accepting Presentation Abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the Call for Presentations for the 2015 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, held every February at Access Innovations company headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. DHUG 2015 is the eleventh annual meeting and will focus on leveraging of taxonomies and tagged data, techniques for integrating tagged data flows into production cycles, and inventive ways to improve the user experience.

Abundant Data

By Melody Smith|July 4th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Abundant Data

Abundance - the word of the year, maybe the decade. That is no different in the world of data. We have computers capable of processing the vast and complex data, and thanks to the clouds, our storage capabilities appear to be endless. But is this a false sense of security?

Smoothing the Way

By Melody Smith|July 1st, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smoothing the Way

Cambridge Semantics has released Anzo Smart Data Integration (ASDI) software to help enterprises rapidly understand and integrate information assets. This new software is designed to reduce integration timeframes and costs by a factor of 10.

Inline Tagging – What’s to Know?

By Melody Smith|June 30th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Inline Tagging – What’s to Know?

Data Harmony released their Inline Tagging Web service extension recently – let’s talk about inline tagging software and information environments well-suited to benefit.