April 3, 2013
Do you know someone who would benefit from our webinars, mentoring, networking, or conference programs as a member of the SLA Taxonomy Division? The Taxonomy Division board has decided to add a membership recruitment drive, coordinated with the overall SLA membership recruitment drive, SLA’s Get on the Beach Campaign. If you recruit new members for SLA and [...]
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February 26, 2013
The San Francisco Bay Region Chapter is hosting a webinar on taxonomies, presented by Margie Hlava, and has offered free admission to Taxonomy Division members. The deadline for this special offer is March 1, 2013. When: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 5:30 – 6:30pm (Pacific) See the San Francisco Bay Chapter website for complete details and [...]
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February 26, 2013
If you’re in the Minneapolis area, the Taxonomy Division Networking Committee would like to invite you to a local no-host dinner. No-hosts provide a great opportunity to network, socialize and talk shop. Whether you’re a veteran taxonomist or someone hoping to learn a little more about the field, we encourage you to join us. When: [...]
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February 11, 2013
Amy Sweigert’s slides from her February 7th webinar are now available to members on the wiki. UPDATE: The session recording is available for download from the link above. If you are a current division member and do not have access to the wiki, please email your wiki user name to: membership@taxonomy.sla.org. Tweet
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February 7, 2013
Our Chair Janice Keeler and Chair-Elect Kathleen McElhinney are in Dallas this week for the 2013 SLA Leadership Conference. Follow us @SLATaxo for live dispatches from Janice and Kathleen as the conference progresses and check out #SLAleads for all the conference updates. Tweet
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February 6, 2013
UPDATE: Registration closes today at 5:00pm ET! Amy Sweigert’s presentation on AP’s metadata strategy is only one day away. Register today! Through the AP Metadata Services offering, the Associated Press is providing publishers with a standardized AP News Taxonomy, which in combination with the AP Tagging Service enables the automated creation of rich, semantic metadata. [...]
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January 31, 2013
Letter from the Chair – Janice Keeler A recent Tweet on our Division website said, “Thank you @SLATaxo for existing. Your website is very helpful!” We hope to continue providing useful services and resources during 2013. We have a good mix of new and continuing leaders in our elected and advisory boards and a lot [...]
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January 11, 2013
Through the AP Metadata Services offering, the Associated Press is providing publishers with a standardized AP News Taxonomy, which in combination with the AP Tagging Service enables the automated creation of rich, semantic metadata. This metadata enables publishers to improve their connection with readers by increasing content relevance and generating new, targeted products and services, [...]
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