Taxonomy – Page 60

Comprehensive Classification Builds Solid Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | July 26, 2013

Developing a classification system organized into conceptually similar categories can help users gain a better understanding of the taxonomy subject area. For instance, a recently developed taxonomy on communication interventions to improve childhood vaccination is expected to provide these outcomes: understanding the relationships between different types of communication interventions; facilitating conceptual mapping of these interventions; clarifying the key purposes and features of interventions to aid implementation and evaluation; and identifying areas where evidence is strong and where there are gaps.

Setting It Up For Success

By Melody Smith | July 24, 2013

Recently, Coveo announced that its advanced search application, Coveo for Salesforce, is now available on the Salesforce.com AppExchange. This product enables instant indexing of Salesforce Knowledge, SharePoint Online (Beta Connector) and Chatter Answers.

Creating a Beautiful Thesaurus

By Melody Smith | July 22, 2013

As a 35-year-old company, Access Innovations has produced more than 200 original thesauri, and we are currently working on more thesauri. Although there are standards for thesauri to kind of give us ground rules, we change and we do things differently depending on the needs of the client. The one rule that remains constant for us is this: A thesaurus must always reflect the collection that will be indexed with the thesaurus.

How Related Are You?

By Melody Smith | July 22, 2013

I have a confession to make. I do not like sports. I do not watch sports. I know almost next to nothing about sports.

Choose Carefully

By Melody Smith | July 16, 2013

Semantria has announced an open source plug-in for WordPress to assist bloggers, writers, and authors in streamlining their publication processes. This interesting news was found on PRWeb in their article, “Semantria Announces an Innovative Open Source Plug-in for WordPress.”

Is Taxonomy the Oldest Profession?

By Melody Smith | July 15, 2013

I recently came across a reference to taxonomy as “the oldest profession”. Could it be? Intrigued, I g**gled and discovered that Dr. Joel Walker Hedgpeth had given an entire talk on the subject in 1961, as the Eleventh Annual University of the Pacific Faculty Research Lecture.

New Partnership to Address Big Data

By Melody Smith | July 15, 2013

Smartlogic and eTouch Systems have announced a partnership to deliver enterprise content management and search solutions. The partnership grew out of a two-year project with NASA that improved the space agency’s findability of their content.

Quality Takes Experience

By Melody Smith | July 11, 2013

There is a webinar called, “Taxonomy – The User’s perspective”, being offered on Wednesday, July 24 at 11:00 a.m. CET, presented by the Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) classification expert Thom Clark.

There’s Indexing and There’s Indexing: Report from the American Society for Indexing Conference

By Melody Smith | July 8, 2013

The American Society for Indexing may be a little known group to most reading a blog dedicated to taxonomy work. Yet we share a focus on making content accessible, albeit through different strategies. The American Society of Indexers (ASI) was established in 1968 to promote the work of back-of-book indexers and facilitate their interaction. In 2008 it was renamed to the American Society for Indexing with the stated purpose “to promote excellence in indexing, and to serve indexers and others concerned with indexing.” The name change reflected a broadening of scope, including taxonomy work and coinciding with the establishment of the Taxonomy SIG (special interest group). ASI’s training course even includes a taxonomy construction module. The expansion is a response to the mushrooming of electronic content and increasing need for simplifying access to online materials. Yet, for the society focused on “indexing,” taxonomic indexing is called tagging and has seemed an afterthought at best. Indeed, few database indexers attend conferences, and there is little mention of their activity.