Upcoming Events

Access Innovations frequently speaks, moderates, sponsors, and exhibits at industry events throughout the year. Below is a list of Access Innovations upcoming events where you can find our team. Please stop by and say hello! To see other previous presentations, visit our Presentations page.

Taxonomy Boot Camp

November 18-19 at the JW Marriott, Washington, D.C.
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Marjorie Hlava will be speaking with Joann Fogleson and Michele Lamorte during the “Extensible Taxonomies for Sustainability” Conference Session

November 18, 2024, 11:15 – 12:00

Sustainability is on the minds of many organizations. The United Nations created a broad outline on sustainability, but providing actionable data is an important additional step. For publishers, creating collections on the topic from their existing materials to aid researchers to quickly find the connections is paramount. The general challenge for organizations with a well-organized collection and existing thesaurus/taxonomy is how to pull out the material on sustainability and still coordinate with the “master” taxonomy, which is true for all collections requiring marketing and showcasing content for specific audiences and needs. Learn how three organizations have approached the topic of sustainability and presentation of materials best suited to answer the questions from both readers and researchers on the topic

Marjorie Hlava will be speaking with Joseph Busch during the “Updating ISO 25964, the Standard for Thesauri and Operability (with Q&A)” Conference Session

November 18, 2024, 16:15 – 17:00

There are more than 800 ISO standards related to terminology. ISO 25964 Part 1, which focuses on thesauri for information retrieval, is being reviewed and revised by a working group. Since the last update of the standard in 2011 the scope has expanded to include terminology management and use, the semantic web, linked data, and AI (meaning NLP, machine learning, LLM, etc.) and interoperability between thesaurus management systems and consuming applications. Busch and Hlava explain the key areas of change that have been included in the draft revision including: alignment with SKOS and other related standards, alternatives to preferred term, representative visual resources, persistent identifiers, “multilinguality,” granularity, and others. An interactive Q&A session will follow to answer any questions on the standard draft and its potential impact on taxonomy practitioners.

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Enterprise Search & Discovery 2024

November 19-21 at the JW Marriott, Washington, D.C.
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Marjorie Hlava will be presenting with Michele Ann Jenkins during “The Role Taxonomies Can Play in Enterprise Search” Conference Session

November 21, 2024, 13:00 – 13:45

Large organizations often turn to enterprise search to solve the challenges of siloed content management systems and fragmented search experiences, but the outcome depends on the quality and consistency of the associated metadata and taxonomy. Believing that a rising tide lifts all repositories, Dovecot’s Jenkins discusses how to align and enhance metadata and taxonomy ahead of enterprise search. Developing a semantic layer, including GenAI, auto-classification, mapping, and other business logic, can support a processing layer to harmonize and enhance metadata beyond the capabilities of the individual source repositories. Access Innovation’s Hlava provides a case study on search recommendations using taxonomy tags. The McGraw-Hill Access Engineering implementation of search depends on, instead of relevance and co-occurrence, the weighted taxonomy tags applied to the individual pieces of content, the information objects. She outlines the process of taxonomy tagging and the search parameters to achieve amazingly high accuracy and consistency.

Data Harmony Users Group 2025

February 3-5 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, Albuquerque, NM
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Join us for our DHUG 2025.

NISO Plus 2025

February 10-12 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD
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The Information Architecture Conference

This year’s theme is Information Architecture – The Bridge Between Humans and Technology
April 29-May 3, 2025, Philadelphia, PA
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https://www.theiaconference.com/

Society for Scholarly Publishing – 47th Annual Meeting

May 28-30, 2025 at the Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
For more information, Click HERE for Information about SSP 47th Annual Meeting