The Allure of Semantics

June 13, 2011 / Melody Smith /

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Inc. has launched a new online presence that includes new products and several new features.

This interesting topic was found on the blog, The Scholarly Kitten, in the post titled, “Going Semantic — Diving Headfirst Into the Deep End of the Content Pool.” The blogger just happens to be part of the publishing company and is open about her admiration for HighWire. However, as a part of the redevelopment, they moved to Silverchair’s new SCM6 platform after being lured with the idea of building on a semantic platform geared specifically for medicine.

Semantic technology has been seen as the future so the allure is understandable. The preciseness it offers against the vagueness of normal search is hard to ignore.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Ben Toth on June 13, 2011 at 5:54 am

    SCM6 is interesting. But it’s not semantic – it just uses UMLS, which is a reasonably good tool for aligning concepts expressed in different ways. Sematics emerge through the network of permissible relationships between concepts, so SCM6 (and UMLS) are not really semantic in a meaningful way.