- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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whoa, cool! Visuwords: online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
i put in the word “organize” into the search box at visuwords, and the results were a visual mess. go ahead, give it a try and see what i mean. the results produce a fantastic thesaurus, so it’s worth a … Continue reading →
card sorting: a data collection method
Two very recent articles* mention card sorting as a technique for getting library web site users to determine categories of information. The process typically uses index cards that already have some information provided, and the user puts the cards into … Continue reading →
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new article published!
my new article has been released! find it at the journal of digital information, entitled, “nine questions to guide you in choosing a metadata schema.” abstract: This article is a guide for collection developers at the point of considering a … Continue reading →
gopubmed
playing around with gopubmed for the first time (i know, i know!) today. i put in my favorite search term, “gastroesophageal reflux,” and waited to see what happened. a lot of resulting information was displayed, looking not like any search … Continue reading →
to read: Text mining and ontologies in biomedicine: making sense of raw text
http://kathrin.dagstuhl.de/files/Materials/08/08131/08131.SpasicIrena.Other.pdf Abstract: The volume of biomedical literature is increasing at such a rate that it is becoming difficult to locate, retrieve and manage the reported information without text mining, which aims to automatically distill information, extract facts, discover implicit links … Continue reading →