Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Adopting and Adapting Existing Word Lists and Taxonomies
In traditional taxonomy construction, you approach the body of knowledge, head for your ivory tower with its closed room and decide on the general structure of the field or discipline. From that single point, or perhaps multiple points, of knowledge, you are going to design a completely new taxonomy … and every now and then that works.
Read MoreMarjorie Hlava Presents Keynote Speech at 23rd Annual SIG/CR Workshop
On October 26, 2012, Access Innovations, Inc. president Marjorie M.K. Hlava presented an afternoon keynote speech at the 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, part of the American Society for Information Science and Technology’s 75th annual meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Read MoreFinancial Taxonomy Consistency
The European accounting body plans to increase efforts to improve electronic scanning of company reports. This comes after criticism from the United States. We found this interesting news on London South East in their article, “Accounting body to improve machine reading of filings.”
Read MoreMethodologies for Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation
When you are building a thesaurus, you can build it from the original text or from a new intellectual area. You can build from an existing vocabulary or from an existing topic. You can do a combination of the two. What often happens is that you take your text and apply it to a taxonomy you think might be fairly parallel, and then you customize it to meet your own needs. That is very common practice and it gets you there faster.
Read MoreProper Information Architecture
There is a lot of discussion about proper information architecture going on out there. Experts believe an effective information architecture best reflects the most common vernacular of the organization — the most used or common words for describing things. This is key to a successful site as it provides a blueprint or map for navigating.
Read MoreSharePoint Can Make A Difference
Many users complain that SharePoint, even with its great features, has just become another file share option. However, the primary difference is its potential. SharePoint adds many benefits that file shares just can’t provide, including retention policies, taxonomy and metadata, and much more.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Partners with SPIE on New Taxonomy
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has partnered with Access Innovations, a leading firm in semantic enrichment, on a new, cutting edge taxonomy in optics and photonics. Currently in use on SPIE’s websites, SPIE.org and the SPIE Digital Library, the taxonomy provides the basis for topically focused searching and browsing the most relevant SPIE content from the society’s journals, proceedings papers, and eBooks.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Announces Two Free Webinars This Month
Access Innovations, Inc. invites you to two free hour-long webinars this month as a continuation of the successful Discovery Tour Series. Join us on Monday, October 22, at 3 p.m. EDT and Tuesday, October 30, at 3 p.m. EDT to discover for yourself the software suite that is revolutionizing thesaurus building and content management as you know it.
Read MorePingar Postures for More Expansion
Pingar announced two appointments designed to continue an accelerated North American growth strategy. Chris Riley has been appointed to the new role of vice president product marketing and Curtis Gion has been appointed to the new role of vice president business solutions.
Read MorePhoto Storage and Indexing Need Taxonomy
A new cloud-based photo sharing service has been launched by Canon. Project 1709 enables users to store and access images regardless of where they have been saved. This works due to a special tagging and indexing function.
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