Everybody Procrastinates

In the spirit of all procrastinators, we can all relate to postponing undesired tasks. However, many are feeling that delaying the ICD-10 coding classification transition (which previously had an already pushed-back due date of October 2013) may be too much procrastination. With five times the number of diagnostic codes and the training involved for charting and coding, it is easy to understand why.

Health System CIO brought this topic to our attention in their post, “Looks Like ICD-10′s Coming … But Should It?” Medical coding requires specialized expertise and systems tailored to the regulatory requirements in which health care providers, hospitals, and doctors deliver their services. Training is very important, especially with the impending ICD-10 transition. That is why Access Innovations, Inc. provides training to a client’s staff and then offers quality assurance and validation services that can:

• Minimize the risk of a coding error
• Identify inappropriate or inadvertently applied tags
• Display a “map” of coding distributions to allow management to get a bird’s-eye view of the coding assignment flow.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

Storage and SharePoint

Optimizing storage to meet the needs of scalability for productivity and cost control is important for any business, and users of Microsoft SharePoint are no exception. SharePoint automatically stores data in SQL Server content databases. As a relational database, SQL is efficient at storing structured data, but less so when dealing with larger, non-relational data streams. Unfortunately, this can often account for up to 95 percent of all data in a typical organization.

SharePoint users have several options to keep the cost of storage in check. One would be to leverage aggressive content life-cycle management policies to address or delete SharePoint content that has not been accessed or modified in a specified time frame. Another would be to set strict site quotas and locks that prevent users from uploading significant amounts of data in particular lists.

This interesting information was found in Computer World UK’s blog post titled, “Save money with smart content storage in SharePoint.”

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

Integrating Data With Semantics

Semantic data integration and knowledge management software, Sentient Knowledge Explorer 4.0, address data for life sciences and healthcare. A simplified workflow makes it possible for users to integrate data more efficiently by making it easier to complete common integration tasks and interrogate multi-faceted data.

This interesting news was brought to our attention by Scientific Computing in their article, “Sentient Knowledge Explorer 4.0.” Ontology validation and dynamic cache management significantly increases import speed into semantic data stores, while enhanced memory management and configurable local persistent buffer account for dramatic reduction in query time.

Data integration can be complicated and time-consuming. Automation for data import and mapping using monitored server folders can automatically process incoming content, map it to RDF, and write directly to a semantic database of choice.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

Working Towards Standards

Metadata Technology North America has announced that  it is working with the Institute of Child Health (ICH) in the United Kingdom on the development of tools to prepare, publish, and maintain data management plans aligned with the DMP Online recommendations. These tools will leverage the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata specification and the ISO 27001 security standards to capture the necessary information.

This project is on target to be completed by the end of September 2012. This project will assess the viability of creating an extensible architecture for data management planning through the use of the DDI metadata specification and related tooling.

PRWeb brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Metadata Technology Collaborating With UK Institute for Child Health on Data Management Plan Tools and Services.”

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

Metadata Learning Opportunity

If you have ever wondered how metadata relates to your work as an LIS professional, this course will give you a sound introduction to the concepts behind metadata, demonstrate ways in which it is used in the LIS field, and provide a practical opportunity to try creating and using metadata. This course is interactive and gives a good grounding for a variety of situations, including academic libraries, research institutions, digital repositories, records centers, and public sector web sites.

This course is being led by David Haynes, an experienced library and information professional, a chartered member of CILIP, and a member of the British Computer Society. He has worked across all parts of the LIS sector, including special libraries, public library services, government and health libraries, academic libraries, and commercial information units, as well as on information management and records management assignments.

This all-day course includes a sit-down lunch where you will be able to share experiences with colleagues and the author of Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval. For information about this course and to register, visit their website.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

Historical Indexing

The Lake County recorder’s office contains vital information, primarily about deeds and mortgages dating back to the first land deal with the Potawatomi Indians in 1836. This wealth of information is intriguing to genealogy buffs and historians, but digging through 10-pound books is quickly going away. Lake County Recorder Michelle Fajman is determined to create a digitized backup file that anyone can access without trekking down to the Lake County Government Center.

The Post-Tribune brought this information to our attention in their article, “Partnership to safeguard Lake recorder’s books.” Fajman’s office has partnered with the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society to undertake the arduous job of indexing the records from 5,840 books. Machine-assisted indexing is a great feature in any document management system. It is very important to choose a product that makes content findable – easily and with thoroughness. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies and associated rule bases for machine-assisted indexing.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

Standardizing Data Integration

There is a lot of talk about big data, what it is, how to manage it, and where to store it. At its core, big data is metadata. Integrating it requires an experienced professional.

This interesting topic was inspired by IT Business Edge’s article, “Silos, Standards and the Big Secret of Big Data.” Managing the metadata becomes even more challenging when you adhere to standards. Of course, we’re all for standards, but many ignore them or lessen their value to the process. This inevitably ends up biting them in the proverbial end.

We know that it has never been more important to approach data integration based on accepted and shared standards. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies that can help you generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.

Data as Science

Scientists are more involved these days in discovering connections with the aid of data than traditional laboratory methods. However, large datasets can pose some difficulties, especially with integration. In scientific research circles, it can be a challenge to confirm the existence of data to correlate.

Government Computer News brought this to our attention in their article, “Unleash the data scientists: How government can use big data.” Unfortunately, data discovery often depends on word of mouth. It isn’t as easy as typing in a search field to find relevant data.

Maintaining access to your data is important all the time, and especially during integration. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies to make their information findable.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

Musical Access

HP recently announced that fans now have never-before access to Paul McCartney’s new portal destination, www.paulmccartney.com, which hosts the musician’s vast digital library of music, lyrics, photos, collections, merchandise, blogs and more.

MarketWatch brought this entertaining information to our attention in their article, “HP Delivers Enhanced Fan Experience by Extending Access to Paul McCartney’s Digital Library.” This came about with HP and Paul McCartney’s MPL Communications, Ltd. working to design, deploy, and maintain a private cloud-based digital library. This library catalogs and stores more than a million items from McCartney’s expansive personal collection, spanning more than five decades. Pretty exciting news for “Fab Four” fans around the world.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.

Interpreting the Clouds

Cloud software means different things to different people. One of the distinguishing characteristics of cloud software is the variety of ways it can be integrated. By its very nature, it lends itself to a service-oriented architecture. With the right tools and development focus, you can integrate cloud applications with a variety of techniques.

Network World brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Cloud App Integration: What’s the Best Path?” The author takes time to explain the challenges and opportunities of cloud-based application integration, layer by layer like an onion. Take a few minutes and read it. It shouldn’t make you cry like an onion would, and you might come away with some new insight to apply as you develop new solutions.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

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