Melody Smith

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.”

Are You Ready?

By Melody Smith | July 16, 2013

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.

Choose Carefully

By Melody Smith | July 16, 2013

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.”