Posts by Melody Smith
Making Content More Findable
Metaome Science Informatics has announced the launch of DistilBio Enterprise – a knowledge discovery and exploration platform for the life sciences.
Read MorePreventing Damage Before it Starts
Malware is the bane of any user’s existence. It harms everyone from the most naive to the competent techy guru.
Read MoreKey Components
Search engines are determined to provide users with as much information as possible. Some companies are forming strategic partnerships to create rich search results for better user experience.
Read MoreRecords Management Requires Consistency
Pittsburgh-based Business Records Management LLC (BRM) has acquired the assets of ABC Mobile Shredding Inc. This marks the fifth purchase by BRM in four years. This somewhat ironic combination of services does have commonality and merging a vendor into an organization can be smart business strategy.
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Social Networking in SharePoint
Concept Searching and Protiviti are co-sponsoring the webinar “Collaboration and Social Networking in SharePoint and Office 365” on June 24th at 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Read MoreBlind Alleys, Dead Ends, and Mazes
Taxonomies can be displayed in a variety of ways. One of the display types that we occasionally see is known as the flat format display. It’s described in the main U.S. standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, published by the National Information Standards Organization.
Read MoreMarco? Polo!
Making content findable by users has become easier and more intuitive through semantic search, a technique used to determine the actual intent and contextual meaning for the keywords that a person types into a search engine. It works on the principles of language and is based on the context, substance, and intent and concept of the search phrase. Semantic search can also incorporate location, synonyms of a term, current trends, and other natural language elements as part of the search.
Read MoreLooking at All Angles
It is important to plan your business from every perspective – employees, customers, market, etc. Information architecture is the next step to organizing information based on that analysis.
Read MoreNew Words to Spell
Merriam-Webster has come out with its new list of approved words for 2014 and I am extremely excited. Not only are they new words I can add to my vocabulary, I can also potentially use them in Words with Friends or Scrabble.
Read MoreOntology-Based Software Aiding in Treating Diabetes
Arab Open University’s (AOU) branch in Oman has developed software for detection and risk assessment of diabetes and other related diseases. This software is ontology driven known as Decision Support System. It was developed as part of the Research Council (TRC) Open Research Grant program. AOU was awarded this project in 2012.
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