Posts by Melody Smith
New Analytics Available
Teradata has announced that Analytic Architecture Services has been added to accelerate deployment of the Teradata Unified Data Architecture. This will enhance the capturing and analyzing of both structured and multi-structured data.
Read MoreCanadian Semantic Web Symposium Calls for Papers
The Fourth Canadian Semantic Web Symposium 2013 is scheduled for July 10, 2013. The deadline for papers in all topics related to semantic web technologies and their applications is March 1, 2013. The topics cover a variety of areas, such as foundations and technology; semantic software engineering; linked data, data analytics, and big data on the semantic web; applications to science, engineering, and health; and applications to education, government, business, and society.
Read MoreFindability Is Easier With Taxonomies
KnowledgeSpeak brought this news to our attention in their article, “ASTM International selects Scope eKnowledge Center to provide enhanced smart content and MARC cataloging services.” Scope is known for developing facets with a taxonomic structure to enable robust cross-domain search. This project will broaden these ‘smart content’ services to include a Portuguese language version of the taxonomy, facets, and keywords to enhance the discoverability of its content by its Brazilian end users.
Read MoreIntegrating the Best Part of Data
Everyone talks about data – the growth of data, the importance of data, and so on. So how does data integrate into our business and actually become products? The process is referred to as “informationalization.” The premise is simple: Make existing products and services increasingly important and valuable to customers by building in more data.
Read MoreIt Is Not All Bad
With computer-assisted coding technology increasing with technology processes, but more because of the ICD-10 transition, there is an immediate need for coding professionals to begin redefining coding roles and functions to meet emerging and future coding opportunities. Medical coding is something that requires specialized expertise and systems tailored to regulatory requirements.
Read MoreThe Quality of Your Data Matters
Data quality is a continuing conversation topic among professionals and users. What is its role? How does one use it? And always, how does one manage the ever-growing amount of data?
Read MoreTaxonomies Are Everywhere
here are taxonomies everywhere. Walk into Home Depot or your nearest grocery store and look up. The aisle markers tell you where to find what you are looking for — in broad terms and hopefully, related terms.
Read MoreBest Practices Shared at DHUG
Building a thesaurus for a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, 15,000 scholarly books and other sources, is no easy task. Currently there is no one single thesaurus that holds the terms to cover all the subjects included in these collections. Nancy Murray, Associate Director, Metadata for JSTOR is taking on that challenge with the assistance of Access Innovations and Data Harmony.
Read MoreVisualize Your Results
Many users of Data Harmony are intimidated by data visualization. Maybe intimidated is the wrong word, but they certainly have anxiety around seeing their analysis in images vs. lists of tens of thousands words.
Read MoreThe Future is Unknown
Once the world was slow moving and you could anticipate the next year to be much like the current. This world is no longer slow moving, in fact it is on warp speed as technology drives more connectivity in the moment. The Internet provides access to all. Librarians are no longer the gatekeepers of information. The entire business model of information has changed. “We are doing business at the speed of thoughts,” says Margie Hlava, President and CEO of Access Innovations. During her keynote presentation at the 9th Annual Data Harmony Users Group this week, Hlava looked back at where we’ve been while looking forward at how Access Innovations is responding to the new industries and challenges technology has brought us.
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