Jokes, Unstructured

By Melody Smith | January 30, 2013

Humor me while I share a funny (pun totally intended) with you. I stumbled across A Taxonomy of Cognitive Jokes and the more I read the funnier it became. Maybe I’ve been writing about taxonomies for too long, or maybe I just need more sleep (probably the latter), but this cracked me up. Cognitive jokes…

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A Spider Named After Indiana Jones

By Melody Smith | January 9, 2013

A jellyfish named Frank Zappa? An ape named John Cleese? A horsefly named Beyonce? Interestingly enough, it has become commonplace for scientists to name new species after celebrities. This practice in taxonomy is fun and surprisingly, the scientists do not need to seek permission from the namesakes.

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What To Do With All The Data?

By Melody Smith | January 4, 2013

Metadata is created every moment of every day. Every phone call, every search query, every photo we take creates metadata. It is most likely not something we think of when we create it and certainly we don’t think of how and where it is stored. Sure, we have files on thumb drives and data cards, but that is just a drop in the bucket metadata-wise.

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Plan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013

By Melody Smith | January 3, 2013

Registration is now open for the Ninth Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting. Sessions will be held February 18-20, 2013 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DHUG meeting focuses on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which supports user organization of their information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.

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Mobile Taxonomy Launched

By Melody Smith | January 3, 2013

Earley & Associates (E&A) have released Information Architecture (IA) and indexing services for mobile application providers. Their mobile content architecture services address taxonomy development, content tagging, and user interface design.

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Taxonomies and Metadata

By Melody Smith | December 17, 2012

Let’s talk about metadata a little bit. This is to give you a broad overview so that you know how to build those taxonomies. Metadata is data about data, which means it is really information about information. If you look at the metadata standards world and especially the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, it has suddenly taken flight again. It’s really interesting. Dublin Core is 10 years old or so and has suddenly become more relevant again.

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A Look at Markup Languages

By Melody Smith | December 10, 2012

The most frequently used markup languages these days are those of the SGML family: SGML, HTML, and XML. Information professionals are likely to encounter all three fairly often.

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