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New Concern for Data Security
Security is always an issue and the parameters change daily. The latest concern and risk involves ransomware. Int his new and scary scenario, hackers often destroy corporate data or encryp it for ransom instead of merely stealing it. Fortune magazine brought this topic to us in their article, “A Top Cybersecurity Firm Says Ransomware Attacks Are…
Read MoreThe Value of History
In Ireland 1922, Free State forces led the occupation of the Public Records Office of the Four Courts as part of the Battle of Dublin. As a result of the battle, there were explosions in the building and historical documents were lost to the fires. Ernie O’Malley, deemed the leader of the group, was quoted as saying…
Read MoreAdvancing Technology
IEEE is the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology. So it isn’t surprising that they are working with publishing organizations to create recommendations regarding best practices to help ensure technical conference content quality. This interesting news came to us from Knowledge Speak in their article, “IEEE, Elsevier and the Institution of Engineering and Technology join together to…
Read MoreHilariously Weird ICD-10 Codes
ICD-10 codes are used for medical billing purposes all over the world. If you limp into a healthcare facility with a broken ankle, there’s a code for that. If you catch the flu, there’s a code for that, too. Most of these codes are pretty standard fare for the medical field, and cover a wide…
Read MoreProof of the Need for Standards
Manually applying metadata to SharePoint deployments can be time-consuming and can also create inefficiencies. Tech Target brought this interesting information to us in their article, “SharePoint Managed Metadata Service creates efficiencies.” The ability to search for and easily retrieve content is a primary function of SharePoint. However, poor metadata and taxonomy practices can defeat those efforts.…
Read MoreAutomated Data Extraction and Analysis Makes Finding Content Easier
RAVN Systems recently released RAVN ACE for automated data extraction for ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) Master Agreements and Credit Support Annexes (CSAs) using artificial intelligence. This interesting information came to us from PRNewswire in their article, “RAVN Systems Releases RAVN ACE for Automated Data Extraction of ISDA Documents Using Artificial Intelligence.” RAVN ACE joins…
Read MoreFree Access to European Cancer Congress Webcasts
A new online platform that is run by Elsevier and hosted by the European Journal of Cancer (EJC) is designed to provide healthcare professionals free access to a selection of lectures from the European Cancer Congress (ECC2015), held in Vienna on September 25-29, 2015. Knowledge Speak brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Elsevier’s…
Read MoreData Harmony Users Group in the Rear View Mirror
The 12th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) has come and gone. Twenty-five attendees joined the Access Innovations staff last week to hear case studies presented by users and presentations by Access Innovations and Data Harmony staff. The agenda was well planned with diverse approaches to managing data and being responsive to the unique needs…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity This Week
Mark your calendars for a unique webinar this week that introduces you to the Linked Data Fragments family of technologies, which take a much more pragmatic view on the Web of Data. The webinar title is Linked Data Fragments: Querying Multiple Linked Data Sources on the Web and is scheduled for Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 10:00…
Read MoreTurning the Bad Into Good
Cindy Acton from Cargill shared with the attendees of Data Harmony Users Group (#DHUG2016) how her organization uses Data Harmony to help their research and development team index and access technical reports. Cargill’s thesaurus contains over 9,000 terms and about 500 top level terms into a streamlined tool used by their researchers to find the…
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