Posts by Melody Smith
Semantic Chat
Military intelligence is teaming up with the science and experts of ontology to understand the challenges and solutions for storing big data. An April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo (UB) will explore this big data conundrum, as well as related topics.
Read MorePredictability is Not a Bad Thing
We know that building a taxonomy is not easy. It requires research, building of terms, identifying criteria, and the list goes on and on. And we all know that it doesn’t always go smoothly and in predictable order.
Read MoreComprehensive Findability
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has chosen TEMIS’s Luxid Platform to enhance its scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly (STMS) content. The result will be search and discovery tools providing professional and academic researchers faster and better findability.
Read MoreNew Partnership in Data Management
Semantic Web Company (SWC) and OpenLink Integration Business Partner Program have joined together, making Virtuoso an important part of SWC’s products and services.
Read MoreThe Power of Semantics
It is no secret that Yahoo has purchased the microblogging site, Tumblr. However, it seems confusing to some as to why a small player in the world of search (and getting smaller), invested over a billion dollars in something that has no solid business model. The answer is semantics.
Read MoreTenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group: Call for Papers
The Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting has been scheduled for February 10-14, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You are cordially invited to join us for this milestone meeting.
Read MoreInternet of Things Forum Continues Planning
Three more impressive names have been added to the roster for the BLN Internet of Things Forum 2013 (BLN IoT13) scheduled for June 27, 2013. Dr. John Davies, Head of Semantic Technology at BT, Stan Boland, CEO of Neul, and lastly Cees Link, CEO of GreenPeak Technologies.
Read MoreLegislation Could Impact ICD-10
After years of planning and complaining, healthcare organizations are beyond knee-deep in preparing for the ICD-10 coding classification transition due by October 1, 2014. Ironically, there is now legislation introduced in the U.S. House would prohibit the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) from mandating that physicians use ICD-10 diagnosis codes.
Read MorePoints of Knowledge
To deal with a large body of knowledge, we need to localize and organize it somehow. Where that knowledge is located, or where and how it is organized, or the system by which it is identified and perhaps indexed, might be called the points of knowledge. And certainly, databases connected to and/or indexed with knowledge organization systems represent points of knowledge.
Read MoreMaking Data Accessible
EBSCO and Data-Planet have reached an agreement that will put statistical DataSheetsthat within a discovery service. This growing collection of more than 5,000 summary-level data records from Data-Planet will be available within EBSCO Discovery Service allowing mutual customers to link directly to Data-Planet DataSheets.
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