Posts by Melody Smith
Working Together
MetaVis Technologies has recently announced that Information Manager Enterprise User Edition now supports SharePoint 2013. This new development allows users to manage data directly from the SharePoint user interface. This interesting information was found on GeeksWorld.com in their article, “MetaVis Makes It Easier to Organize Content in SharePoint 2013.”
Read MoreFacing the Challenge of Big Data
Big data has become those scary words few organizations want to hear, let alone discuss. However, many information professionals would like the opportunity to take on this challenge. The negotiation between the top and middle management seems to hold much progress at a standstill. Most CIOs have trouble working with big data themselves and they have little, or nothing, to offer to business users. CMSWire brought this situation to our attention in their article, “Cloudera Unveils Big Data Search, No Special Training Required.”
Read MoreUsing Metadata in a New Role
Dataset creation and transformation is an important step in reporting clinical trial data. Unfortunately, it can also be a challenging process. The goal is to always look for ways to do the job more efficiently, to lower costs, and to increase productivity among our staff. Digital Journal brought this news our direction in their article, “Using…
Read MoreKeeping The Access
Concept Searching has entered into a partnership agreement with Enterprise Knowledge bring together Concept Searching’s technology expertise in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management, and Enterprise Knowledge’s experience providing strategic taxonomy design solutions that assist both commercial and federal organizations capture, manage, and maximize the value of content assets.
Read MoreRemembering the Value of Space
A dynamic document management program can reduce costs, improve findability, and make work flow seamless. Document management systems continue to evolve, and what was once seen as a luxury is now considered a requirement.
Read MoreLists Large and Small: Let Me Count the Ways
We taxonomists love lists. For us, they are raw materials, the stuff we love to get our hands on to start organizing. I recently came across a couple of lists with crossover appeal and relevance beyond simple conceptual organization. Both address why we do this stuff and how we help turn information into actionable knowledge.
Read MoreWhen Relationships Are Broken
The defining characteristic of taxonomies is the key to hierarchical relationships. It is vital to be sure this step is accurate and the relationships are true. Generic relationships, as explained in ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (page 47), identifies the link between a class and its members or species. The generic relationship is generally called the Broader term/Narrower term relationship. In most cases, it’s easy in traditional biological taxonomy of organisms, because of its well-established and well-known groupings of phyla, genera, families, species, and so forth, i.e., Rodents and NT Squirrels.
Read MoreAddressing the Data
There are challenges to using metadata to leverage big data. There are limitations of analytics. With these obstacles, how does your organization stay agile?
Read MoreMachine Assisted Indexing Changes Landscape
Medical coding is changing. Coders who have been in the “biz” for years have faced a decision: either retire or learn the new coding classification system. The latter is a daunting task for most. However economy, job security, etc. make for strong motivators to learn a new system. Unfortunately, physicians have no such motive – or so they
Read MoreDon’t Be Cut Off From Your Data
This small town police records management crashing may not seem like breaking news, but if you were dependent on the information found in the records, you might think differently. Records management is a key part of any organization’s information technology strategy, or should be.
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