Posts by Melody Smith
Stretching the Boundaries
Social media has gone to college. College libraries, that is. Reaching beyond the relationship status updates on Facebook, Harvard libraries set up Twitter feeds to broadcast the titles of books being checked out from campus libraries. Readers can return books to the “Awesome Box,” creating a data trail about what they consider great. “Awesomed” selections are then publicized via Twitter.
Read MoreMachine Assisted Indexing Can Help
Many believe that one of the biggest challenges currently facing the health IT industry is the coding classification transition to ICD-10. Training staff, integrating data, and preparing for financial impact has consumed the healthcare professionals and will continue to do so until implementation in October 2014.
Read MoreFinding the Tunes
Metadata is not limited to documents and photos, it can also be part of digital music to assist in searching and ultimately locating. So the innaugural Music Industry Metadata Summit organized by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and digitalmusic.org, is a timely event. The long-expected event is scheduled in Los Angeles on May 6-7, 2013 and is part of NARM’s Music Biz 2013 conference.
Read MoreThe Challenges of Search
A new software product by BloomReach, Dynamic Duplication Reduction (DDR), seeks to resolve a constant challenge – duplicate content issues on web sites.
Read MoreWhat Trails To Leave Behind
Debating the approach of spreading documents over varioius document libraries versus focusing on one singular library, this author lifts up a pros and cons list that could bring some insight to your work.
Read MorePreparing for the Leap
With the preparation for the transition to ICD-10, there is a new interest in population management. This most likely comes from the concerns around financial reimbursement after the implementation in October 2014. There will be five times the number of codes after the implementation of the ICD-10 coding classification. This will allow for greater specificity, but there will be a huge learning curve.
Read MoreMetadata and Open Standards
Colectica has announced that Statistics Denmark is adopting Colectica metadata software to support managing and describing their data all using open standards.
Read MoreDocument Capture Aids Findability
Labeled a trendsetting product for 2012, AnyDocCAPTUREit allows you to scan documents locally or from remote locations. Users can then securely transmit images over the Internet for centralized processing.
Read MoreIntroducing Exo Sanitations’ Really Really Advanced Search
Sometimes Advanced Search just isn’t enough. On this date last year, you may recall, Google unveiled a Really Advanced Search, with more than a dozen different option fields that included searching rhyming slang, embarrassing grammatical faux pas, font, content that is true, and “this exact word or phrase, whose sum of unicode points is a mersenne prime.”
Read MoreExo Sanitations Announces Universal Thesaurus
Exo Sanitations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is pleased to announce the release of its new Universal Thesaurus. Designed by world-class taxonomists at Exo Sanitations, the Universal Thesaurus is designed to be compact, broad, and inclusive. While the taxonomy is relatively small in size, the terms in this newly deployed controlled vocabulary are general enough to suit all types of documents, datasets, and industries.
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