Posts by Melody Smith
Crowdsourcing Conference Scheduled
As the semantic web continues to develop and grow, it increases the potential to test and challenge the technical and human resources currently supporting it. So the idea of a conference focused specifically on crowdsourcing the semantic web, seems appropriate.
Read MoreMetadata Headlining at Conference
Colectica has been selected to give several presentations at the upcoming International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) conference in Cologne, Germany later this month.
Read MoreTaxonomy Adds Value to Content
If you have been a reader for anytime at all, you know by now that I find taxonomies of alternate topics very intriguing, and I wasn’t disappointed by this latest find.
Read MoreAre You Ready?
With the ICD-10 coding classification transition countdown seemingly going faster, how ready are providers for the implementation? A survey by Aloft Group, a Newburyport, Massachusetts healthcare branding and marketing firm, sheds some light on just that.
Read MoreManaging All That Data
Big data. Unstructured data. Semi-structured data. Data, data, data. It seems like everyone is talking about data and the challenges that comes with it.
Read MoreTechnology in the Sky
Algebraix Data Corporation announced its SPARQL Server RDF database successfully executed all 17 of its queries on the SP2 benchmark up to one billion triples on one computer node. This computationally complex testing exceeds all others before it.
Read MoreRanganathan, Classification, and British Toys
I’ve mentioned Ranganathan briefly in some earlier posts. Let’s look at his innovations and influence from a historical perspective. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was an Indian mathematician and librarian. His academic training was in mathematics, in which subject he earned two degrees. He taught mathematics and wrote several articles on the history of mathematics. These articles worked to…
Read MoreMetadata Providing Structure
M-Files has received a cash infusion to further their growth. The Finnish enterprise content management platform does away with traditional folder structures by relying entirely on metadata to help people find documents.
Read MoreEnsuring Compliance
The impending ICD-10 coding classification transition is a challenge for not just hospitals and physicians, but other healthcare providers are preparing for this “new world” with training.
Read MoreApplication Blocks Aid Customization
Microsoft recently released Enterprise Library (EL) 6.0 with a semantic logging application block. Enterprise Library has a long history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business (LOB) systems.
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