Posts by Melody Smith
Metadata: Friend or Foe?
Metadata has become a hosuehold word. Whatever news source you use has surely blasted you with all the conspiracy theories and paranoia driven news to make this not only a familiar word, but a terrifying one. But metadata is not new nor is it malevolent or malicious.
Read MoreThe Value of Indexing
Family-Search is a worldwide archive project provided free by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Recently they celebrated a milestone of mammoth proportions when they reached the one billion mark of historical recoards having been transferred from hand-written archives to online documents, much of this achieved by volunteers.
Read MoreLooking 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.
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