Taxonomy of a Turkey
You really aren't all that surprised if you have read TaxoDiary with any amount of consistency over the years. I love quirky and unusual taxonomies, so considering the season of course I found a turkey taxonomy.
When Relationships Are Broken
The defining characteristic of taxonomies is the key to hierarchical relationships. It is vital to be sure this step is accurate and the relationships are true. Generic relationships, as explained in ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (page 47), identifies the link between a class and its members or species. The generic relationship is generally called the Broader term/Narrower term relationship. In most cases, it’s easy in traditional biological taxonomy of organisms, because of its well-established and well-known groupings of phyla, genera, families, species, and so forth, i.e., Rodents and NT Squirrels.
Don’t Be Cut Off From Your Data
This small town police records management crashing may not seem like breaking news, but if you were dependent on the information found in the records, you might think differently. Records management is a key part of any organization's information technology strategy, or should be.
Taxonomies are Inclusive
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will soon publish its proposed 2014 GAAP Taxonomy as a preview of what they will require in the coming year for filing financial statements in XBRL. This information was found on Compliance Week in their article, “FASB Plans 2014 Taxonomy Release, Webcast to Explain.”
A Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification
Recently, I was watching a show on the Weather Channel about the “discovery” of a previously unrecognized type of cloud. This intrigued me, as I’ve always wondered how the “official” classifications of various kinds of things come about, and just who has the authority somehow to establish the classifications and terminology. We all know at least some of the standard cloud types – cirrus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, etc. (If you want to know all the types and subtypes, check out Wikipedia’s “List of cloud types”.) Who decided on those names and types, and why?
Access Innovations’ Taxonomy Client Public Library of Science (PLOS) Unveils PLOS ONE Platform
PLOS ONE unveiled its new e-journal platform last month, with Subject Area browsing capability made possible by the PLOS thesaurus, constructed by Access Innovations in 2012 and refined in collaboration with PLOS since then. PLOS ONE is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2006. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine.
Taxonomies As Solutions
Scope has developed a taxonomy for PracticeUpdate, an e-portal that offers an array of professional research, information and education resources. This project contracted by Elsevier Health Services with the key business objective being to support more personalization of the user experience for PracticeUpdate. The solution required the development of a taxonomy for a number of medical domains. The taxonomy is essential for optimal filtering of results for the target audience and refining search results.
Equivalence Relationships
Terms in an equivalence relationship refer to the same concept (or sometimes a roughly equivalent concept). They are usually synonyms. As has already been discussed, there should be only one “indexing term” or preferred term in your thesaurus for any given concept. You can and should include synonyms of those preferred terms in your thesaurus as synonyms. And the way to do that is with equivalence relationships. The synonyms that aren’t “preferred terms” are “non-preferred terms” in the same term record. Your taxonomy software instructions will indicate how to add non-preferred terms to term records; this action will establish an equivalence relationship between the preferred term and each non-preferred term.
Access Integrity Announces Debut of HCPCS Tagger Technology
The patented, rule-based application searches and analyzes the text in providers’ notes in electronic medical records to suggest highly relevant Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes for human review. Access Integrity CEO John Kuranz says the new technology will revolutionize the medical coding and billing industries.
Better Together
FactSet Research Systems has acquired Revere Data. FactSet provides industry intelligence and analytics to help investment professionals perform. Revere provides data to enable capital market professionals to manage portfolio risk and make more informed investment decisions through unprecedented visibility into global companies. Revere has built an industry taxonomy that offers investors a way to classify companies and analyze how they fit in the global economy.