Posts by Melody Smith
Disease Database Gets Stellar Reviews
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have designed a search engine that indexes specific sets of databases to help identify rare diseases. FindZebra.com allows users to query patient symptoms. The technology crawls over 31,000 medical articles focused on rare and genetic diseases to deliver medically relevant search results. This interesting news was on Search…
Read MoreColectica Chosen for Oracle Database
Digital Journal brought this news to our attention in their article, “Colectica Announces Upcoming Support for Oracle Database 11g in the Colectica Metadata Repository.” Colectica Repository’s architecture can run both distributed and memory-intensive metadata registry operations against an Oracle database.
Read MoreTheory of Knowledge: 18th Century Developments
Last time, we mentioned biological taxonomy. This leads us inevitably to Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), a Swedish zoologist and botanist. We regard him as the “father of modern taxonomy.” Contrary to popular belief, Linnaeus did not invent the binomial nomenclature system, with organism types designated by genus and species. That honor belongs to the Bauhin brothers, Gaspar (1560-1624) and Johann (1541-1613). The two Swiss brothers formalized the then-existing method of (often vague and wordy) polynomial nomenclature, introducing a stricter, more logical system with one word for the genus and one for the species.
Read MoreManaging Information and Data
Shabbir Dahod, TraceLink’s President and CEO, will be speaking at LogiPharma Europe this week in Geneva, Switzerland. LogiPharma is the world’s largest life sciences and pharmaceutical supply chain management conference with a special focus this year on supply chain performance, pharmaceutical integrity and emerging markets strategy.
Read MoreFinding Treasures
ou have no idea how excited I am to share this latest find with you. Ironically, it came on the same day that I found a vintage pocket handbook of synonyms and antonyms at a local thrift store. It was the best $1.99 I have spent in a long time. My shopping companion found it humorous that I was so excited to find something that “the Internet could provide.” Tsk, tsk, tsk, my naïve little friend. Google will never give me the pleasure of turning yellowed pages full of antiquated words like a vintage book.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Progress Recognized
An emerging technology leader in natural language processing (NLP) and semantic technologies has been recognized for their contribution and achievements.
Read MoreSetting the Foundation
Social has never been so, well, social. Social search, social media, social enterprise, and now social business. Not everyone may have been on board in the beginning, but now few are ignoring the power of social.
Read MoreNew Partnership Harnesses Semantic Technology
Concept Searching and Smartonix have entered into a partnership agreement that will bring semantic metadata generation, taxonomy management, and enterprise-class solutions together.
Read MoreData About Data
Metadata are the breadcrumbs we leave behind on photos, files, documents, etc. that tells us about the content, where it was created, and where we can find it again.
Read MoreSeeking Healthcare Integrity
With all that is going on in the world of healthcare, i.e. ICD-10 conversion, electronic medical records, and the new government healthcare program, it is hard to imagine adding to that load. However, sometimes what is an add-on can be a load reliever.
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