Posts by Melody Smith
Looking Forward with Ontologies
Detecting defects in ontologies has always been important, but with the increased use of ontologies and ontology mappings in semantically-enabled applications, the importance has increased exponentially.
Read MoreChoose the Right Tools
Version 1.0 of TokuMX, a version of MongoDB that has its storage layer replaced with Tokutek’s storage engine, has been released.
Read MoreJohn Kuranz Brings 30+ Years’ Expertise to Access Integrity
Access Innovations is proud to announce John Kuranz as chief executive officer of its newest endeavor, Access Integrity — which employs Access Innovations’ award-winning Data Harmony software suite to the medical coding and billing industries.
Read MoreEBSCO Adds Databases
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) has added content from Arabic content service provider Al Manhal. This includes ebooks, ejournals, e-reports, and e-dissertations databases.
Read MoreTaxonomy by All
Wikipedia is often disparaged as a reliable source because anyone can edit any entry at any time. So given that history, how credible would a taxonomy be that was built by crowdsourcing? Some interesting information about one such attempt was found on The Daily, a publication of the University of Washington, in their article, “Playing to the crowd.
Read MoreShopping Semantics
A new shopping search engine, TheFind, has released a new iPad app designed to give users an even more effective experience of finding what they want using the iPad.
Read MoreNew Merger Benefits All
Concept Searching has formed an alliance with Collabware that merges Concept Searching’s expertise in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management with Collabware’s experience in records management and compliance control.
Read MoreTraining is Essential
With the October 2014 date looming, many providers are fearful they will need to memorize each and every one of the 68,000 new medical codes to be in compliance.
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Trends
The latest technology terminology shows up in trends. Big data, information architecture, analytics, and of course semantic anything. How does the average person, let alone professional, stay on top of the latest vernacular?
Read MoreOutlining the World (and Its Parts)
As we have seen, there were a lot of early philosophers who outlined the world as they saw it. While that’s an ambitious undertaking (especially for academic trailblazers), they truly built an outline; they truly built a taxonomy of the world as they saw it.
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