Posts by Melody Smith
Typography as a Science
Like many people, I have varied interests in my life, both professionally and personally. Graphics, design and typography crosses the lines into both of those worlds. So when I found this interesting diagram on Flickr, it piqued my interest and I thought I would share it with you.
Read MoreSolutions for Big Data
Human beings supposedly produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, according to IBM. Adding to that bit of trivia, 90 percent of the data in the world today was created in the past two years. The result is why we have the challenge of “big data” today. Enormous data sets that most relational database management systems (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) find difficult to process. “Ontologies for Information Integration” (OI2), an April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo, will address this challenge and offer some non-traditional solutions.
Read MoreSemantic Solutions
Ontology Systems has recently launched two semantic search solutions targeted for the financial services industry. In addition, they have announced the appointment of Andrea Harding to lead adoption of the solutions by financial services providers.
Read MoreTheory of Knowledge: Philosophic Beginnings
At their core, taxonomies and other classification systems are ways of organizing and managing knowledge. To understand the history of classification systems, it behooves us to explore the history of thinking about knowledge. So what is knowledge? The Greek philosopher Plato defined it as “justified true belief”. However, the twentieth-century writer Bertrand Russell commented that “at first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The trouble is that no one knows what a belief is, no one knows what a fact is, and no one knows what sort of agreement between them would make a belief true.”
Read MoreIntegration with SharePoint
Concept Searching will hold a webinar this week on How to Integrate Taxonomy and Term Store Management. Scheduled on Wednesday April 10th, at 11:30-11:45 AM EDT, this free webinar is part of the Concept Searching 2013 How To Webinar Series.
Read MoreStretching 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.
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