Posts by Melody Smith
Using Data to the Maximum
A new partnership of the French IT services group Bull and search and analytics company Sinequa is positioned to provide an appliance based on Bull’s Bullion X86 server and Sinequa’s real-time Big Data search and analysis software platform.
Read MoreData Harmony® v.3.9 Named 2014 Trend-Setting Product by KMWorld
Access Innovations, Inc., the industry leader in data organization and innovator of the Data Harmony® software suite, is pleased to announce that KMWorld has selected Data Harmony 3.9 for their Trend-Setting Products list for 2014. “We enhance and enlarge the Data Harmony offerings every year. This year the suite has increased to 14 modules. It is…
Read MoreDigging a Little Deeper
Semantic search combines natural language processing and computer technology to help people learn and share information quickly. How it is used and the different types of applications seems endless. After a car accident and subsequent coma ended up leaving one woman having to relearn how to do everything, she saw a need and built a semantic search company to discover the not-so-obvious information.
Read MoreWhat Else Can You Do With a Thesaurus?
Have an old dictionary lying around? If you follow in this girl’s footsteps you just might have a new wardrobe.
Read MoreEmbracing Semantic Technology
Cipher Systems has announced a new partnership with Semantic Research Inc. Together they will work together to integrate elements of SRI’s Semantica® software package and Cipher’s Knowledge.Works™ and Knowledge.Hub™ competitive intelligence software solutions.
Read MoreA Taxonomy for Contributor Role Metadata
We’ve written before about how taxonomies can provide the material for metadata (especially subject matter terms) describing information resources. One taxonomy currently under development has the potential to standardize how authors and other contributors are described in a resource’s metadata. The development group is led by Amy Brand (VP Academic & Research Relations and VP North America for Digital Science) and Liz Allen (Head of Evaluation for the Wellcome Trust).
Read MoreNew Possibilities for New Fun
Scrabble fans rejoice. Five thousand words have been added to “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,” released on August 11 from Merriam-Webster.
Read MoreOpen Access Journals Become Available
The publisher Brill has announced a new suite of open access journals covering four major disciplines – Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Biology. These journals will offer a pure open access environment. Each journal will be divided in sections that align with the major subject areas in the discipline.
Read MoreThe Power of Data
Former head of the National Security Agency (NSA) General Michael Hayden shared that information collected by the NSA about phone calls and other communications that does not include content can still tell the government all they need to know for strategic decisions.
Read MoreThe Strategy Behind Records Management
If experience teaches us anything, then Jill Singer’s recommended recipe for a successful federal records management process is worth the read. Her 27 years of federal service should make her recommendations worthwhile for any records management process, not just federal service project records management.
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