Technology Paved the Ways to Remote Working

Remote working used to be this unicorn-type of employment that only a few were privileged to experience. If everyone was honest, when someone said they worked from home, everyone’s inner voice thought “yeah, sure”. Since March 2020, remote working is no longer a privilege but a necessity. Many staff are still working from home as…

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Indexing Electronic Medical Records Using a Taxonomy

Taxonomies provide hierarchical categorization and classification of not only content, but also products and brands represented in online directories and product catalogs. A controlled vocabulary is a way to insert an interpretive layer of semantics between the terms entered by the user and the underlying database to better represent the original intention of the user’s terms. The…

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Peer Review Taxonomy Working Group Formed

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and STM (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) have formed a new NISO Working Group to formalize the Peer Review Taxonomy as an ANSI/NISO standard. Information Today brought this news to us in their article, “NISO and STM Convene Working Group to Standardize a Peer Review Taxonomy.”…

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Supporting Your Search with Taxonomies

Enterprise search can retrieve data, both structured and unstructured, within a company. It is beneficial because it enables users to easily access organized information. An organization’s data architecture should be able to offer a method to share and reuse existing data. It should also suppress data duplication for efficient data management and high data quality. This…

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Classifying History for Findability

Taxonomy is the science of classification – a basic means of understanding the world around us. It is also key in the act of identifying and archiving. This interesting topic came to us from Reflector in their article, “Anthropology students help reclaim history of local cemeteries.” East Carolina University students in the Department of Anthropology…

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Changing the Search Experience

The challenge of finding content is not new. Digital assets continue to grow exponentially as digital content creation and sharing increases. Tech Target brought this subject to our attention in their article, “Learn the basics of digital asset management.” Digital asset management (DAM) systems are a great way to easily find your assets but they…

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Ensuring Quality of Your Data

Data quality exists only when users have a consistently high level of confidence in the accuracy, completeness and appropriateness of the data they rely on for running their business. How do we get there? Customer Think brought this topic to our attention in their article, “The Importance of Data Quality and How to Achieve It.”…

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Moving to the Cloud

Migrating to the cloud is not new and it has been proven to be effective in this digital world. Regardless of the industry or the volume of data, cloud computing is a key milestone in the digital transformation journey. This interesting news came to us from Tech Wire Asia in their article, “A quick cloud computing…

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Creating Consistency

The term knowledge graph was introduced by Google in 2012 referring to its general-purpose knowledge base, though similar approaches have been around since the beginning of modern artificial intelligence (AI). Today, knowledge graphs are used in anything from search engines and chatbots to product recommenders and autonomous systems. This topic came to us from International…

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Powerful Search

At a recent conference, the question was posed “Does the wider adoption of machine learning mean the end of search as we know it?” Northern Light CEO David Seuss believes it does and how search must leverage smart taxonomies going forward. This interesting topic was brought to our attention by Database Trends and Applications in…

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