Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
EBSCO Chosen by US Government Printing Office
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is making its metadata searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). This leap into the metatagging realm will enable EDS subscribers to search for federal records from the GPO’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. This includes the Congressional Serial Set Catalog, GPO Access Publications, and Internet Publications.
Read MoreWhat Can You Do with XML Today?
by Jay Ven Eman Interest in Extensible Markup Language (XML) rivals the press coverage the World Wide Web received at the turn of the Millennium. Is it justified? Rather than answer directly, let us take a brief survey of what XML is and why it was developed, and then we can highlight some current XML…
Read MoreAutomatic Indexing: A Matter of Degree
by Marjorie M.K. Hlava October 2002 First published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 29 No. 1, October/November 2002. Table of Contents Definitions What Systems Are There? How Should They Be Applied? What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses? How Do We Know If They Really Work? How Expensive…
Read MoreThe Notation Module in Thesaurus Design: An innovative view of Thesaurus Hierarchies
by Scott Denning Traditional thesaurus design has necessarily been a matter of alphabetization of the terms. While different views – permuted, hierarchical, rotated – offer different insights into the relationships of the terms in the thesaurus, the structure within these views is still ultimately alphabetical. Though alphabetization is at the core of organization in language,…
Read MoreFacets Help Move from Search to Found
by Alice Redmond-Neal, Chief Taxonomist, Access Innovations, Inc. In the “everything old is new again” department, facets are all the rage in the taxonomy world! What are facets, where did they come from, and how do they relate to familiar taxonomies and other search support strategies? What are facets? Facets are terms that describe some…
Read MoreClassified Homeland Security: Transforming Data into Information
by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO, Access Innovations, Inc. Originally published in Intelligence & Warning America Table of Contents Velocity, Volume, and Variety Taxonomic Control BUYIN – GET IT Taxonomic Strategy Taxonomy – Build It Taxonomy – Deploy It Maintenance and Training – Keep It Up Search and Find You’ve just read the title and…
Read MoreBridging the Great Indexing Divide
by Alice Redmond-Neal Reprinted from Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society for Indexing I’ve been indexing for over a decade, but when I attended the ASI Annual Meeting 2008 in Denver, I was a stranger in a strange land. Being surrounded by indexers was intriguing yet confounding. You see, I come from the…
Read MoreWhite House Sets High Goals for Digital Rules
The White House is releasing guidance that will promote electronic dockets for rulemaking. The result will be a living document open to public comment during an event hosted by the Brooking Institution in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreBP Searching for Consistency
BP seeks to provide consistency in their knowledge-sharing processes across the many merged corporations they have acquired in past decades by creating a central department, Engineering Technical Practices (ETP), to create and maintain BP engineering practices for both the exploration and production segments of the corporation.
Read MoreGood Taxonomy is Key to Effective Search
Speakers at the Enterprise Search Summit, held November 16-18 in Washington, D.C., united in expressing the opinion that effective search is not a challenge that can be met by technology alone.
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