Melody Smith

Data Harmony Users Group Call for Papers

By Melody Smith | July 23, 2013

The Tenth Annual Data Harmony® Users Group (DHUG) meeting will be held February 10-14, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You are cordially invited to join us for this milestone meeting.

When Semantic Technology Gets Here

By Melody Smith | July 23, 2013

Semantic technology is weaving its way through every part of our lives. It assists in creating dynamic and comprehensive search results by using natural language processing to determine the meaning and context, just not the words in a search field. Now Google is taking semantic search into the social media world. The social activity adds another level of context on the premise that the most desirable product is the one that is usually talked about the most.

Creating a Beautiful Thesaurus

By Melody Smith | July 22, 2013

As a 35-year-old company, Access Innovations has produced more than 200 original thesauri, and we are currently working on more thesauri. Although there are standards for thesauri to kind of give us ground rules, we change and we do things differently depending on the needs of the client. The one rule that remains constant for us is this: A thesaurus must always reflect the collection that will be indexed with the thesaurus.

How Related Are You?

By Melody Smith | July 22, 2013

I have a confession to make. I do not like sports. I do not watch sports. I know almost next to nothing about sports.

Where Will the Semantic Web Take Us?

By Melody Smith | July 22, 2013

Knowledge graphs are quickly becoming more common as the semantic web continues to be more relevant. Actually it is more of an increase in awareness of the semantic web, as it has always been relevant.

The Value of Metadata

By Melody Smith | July 19, 2013

OCLC Research scientist, Brian Lavoie, and Richard Gartner from King’s College London, have co-authored the second edition of Preservation Metadata. This edition focuses on new developments in preservation metadata made possible by the emergence of PREMIS as a de facto international standard.

New Partnership Fulfills Long-Time Need

By Melody Smith | July 18, 2013

Access Integrity and Find-A-Code have joined force to revolutionize the medical coding industry. The application — named IntegraCoder — will combine Access Integrity’s semantic enrichment, rule-based taxonomy tool with Find-A-Code’s comprehensive medical coding datasets and search applications into a single user-friendly interface.

Protecting the Data

By Melody Smith | July 18, 2013

Backupify provides cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. They are expanding their services to support backup for Salesforce.com metadata using Backupify for Salesforce.

Standards and Collaboration

By Melody Smith | July 17, 2013

Colectica has released their latest enhancement to the data documentation software – Colectica 4.1. Their software is based on open standards metadata from the Data Documentation Initiative and builds on previous versions. This interesting news was brought to our attention on Digital Journal in their article, “Colectica Unveils New Version of Data Documentation Software Using Open Standards Metadata.”

The Value of Technology

By Melody Smith | July 17, 2013

There are discussions happening everywhere about the advance of technology, and how it is either improving our lives or dumbing us down. Just accidentally leave your smart phone at home one day and you will quickly know how dependent we have become on these mobile devices to communicate, navigate, and socialize. The Moderate Voice was where we found an interesting piece on this topic titled, “The Ontology of Technology.”