Access Innovations publicly releases catalogue of 53 Knowledge Domains as free standing products for thesauri and taxonomy use
Access Innovations, Inc, the provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is making its catalogue of more than 50 Knowledge Domains available as stand-alone products for use in thesauri or taxonomies.
A Knowledge Domain is an outline of expertise for a specific topical or content area formatted as a taxonomy (hierarchy) or thesaurus (with full records for every term), according to the company.
Knowledge Domains were created by Access Innovations to share decades of hands-on, client-based knowledge management valuable for organizations in various industries.
Knowledge Domains enhance knowledge management systems by enabling tagging, improving search accuracy, supporting web navigation, facilitating semantic fingerprinting, and more, the company said.
Applying Access Innovations’ tools to an already well-formed Knowledge Domain can be a useful benchmark for a custom taxonomy due to the company’s history of comprehensive testing and updates.
Out of the box, Knowledge Domains are designed to immediately improve the workflow efficiency of existing knowledge management systems by reducing search times and yielding more relevant search results.
For new systems, Knowledge Domains can provide the fastest plug-and-play solution or be an ideal starting point from which to create a narrower, custom taxonomy.
Access Innovations’ experience at constructing and applying taxonomies in close coordination and cooperation with a large and diverse client base means each Knowledge Domain thoroughly covers and maintains its subject matter in professional environments. Many of the Knowledge Domains also have an accompanying rule base already built and tested.
“We have constructed these Knowledge Domains over more than 40 years, and they contain a total of just over three-quarters of a million records. The full-term records comply with industry NISO Z39.19 and ISO 25964 standards and include hierarchical, equivalence, and associative relationships. They can be exported in Excel, CSV, SKOS-2, and other formats,” explained Marjorie M.K. Hlava, founder, chair and chief scientist at Access Innovations.
The catalogue ranges from the smallest domain of 51 terms for a language arts thesaurus to the largest domain containing 135,000 terms for the National Agricultural Library, which is based on work from the U.S. National Agricultural Library.
Other domains include a Medicinal Plant Names Service (MPNS) domain developed in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew that has an average of 16.6 synonyms per plant name and a NASA database that contains the authorized subject terms by which the documents in the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database are indexed and retrieved.
Medical domains include current diagnostic codes from the American Medical Association for medical coding and payment, the International Classification of Diseases maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, and others.
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