Posts by Melody Smith
The Value of Technology
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.”
Read MoreAre You Ready?
One of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry in addition to the ICD-10 transition, is coordination among their many business partners. Providers, payers, and vendors all need to be on the same page at the same point, and that point is October 1, 2014.
Read MoreChoose Carefully
Semantria has announced an open source plug-in for WordPress to assist bloggers, writers, and authors in streamlining their publication processes. This interesting news was found on PRWeb in their article, “Semantria Announces an Innovative Open Source Plug-in for WordPress.”
Read MoreIs Taxonomy the Oldest Profession?
I recently came across a reference to taxonomy as “the oldest profession”. Could it be? Intrigued, I g**gled and discovered that Dr. Joel Walker Hedgpeth had given an entire talk on the subject in 1961, as the Eleventh Annual University of the Pacific Faculty Research Lecture.
Read MoreNew Partnership to Address Big Data
Smartlogic and eTouch Systems have announced a partnership to deliver enterprise content management and search solutions. The partnership grew out of a two-year project with NASA that improved the space agency’s findability of their content.
Read MoreSemantic Technology and Integration
Ontology Systems have made available their latest semantic search platform that replaces data integration. Ontology 4 incorporates unstructured and structured application data. This allows organizations to search and link applications, databases, files and more.
Read MoreFile Cabinets In the Sky?
Combining their cloud-based storage with the voice recording skills of Orange Trading Solutions, Bloomberg can now integrate voice data into the Bloomberg Vault and produce electronic records in almost real time. Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Watch Your Tone — Bloomberg Vault Now Archives Voice Too.”
Read MoreQuality Takes Experience
There is a webinar called, “Taxonomy – The User’s perspective”, being offered on Wednesday, July 24 at 11:00 a.m. CET, presented by the Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) classification expert Thom Clark.
Read MoreHow the Semantic Web Has Changed Us
The web changes daily and how we are or aren’t changing with it is the topic of an interesting discussion brought to us by Balkans Business News. The article titled, “David Amerland – Helpmyseo.com Founder, SEO / Social Media Consultant, and Author of Google Semantic Search”, used a question and answer format to discuss the semantic web and what it means for the world of technology.
Read MoreWhat is Metadata?
So much talk and news has been around metadata. It has practically become a four letter word. MIT’s Media Lab has developed a new tool – Immersion – to help individuals understand how much personal information their ‘metadata’ reveals about them.
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