Posts by Melody Smith
Indexing Hullabaloo
If indexing is an art to you, then this event will be right up your alley. “The Art and Craft of Indexing” is the theme at the American Society for Indexing’s annual conference in San Antonio, TX on April 17-20, 2013.
Read MoreTEMIS Product Awarded
TEMIS recently announced that Luxid Content Enrichment Platform was named a winner for the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards for “Best Semantic Technology Solution”. Included in the winners are the information industry’s best products, technologies, and services.
Read MoreWhat is the Financial Burden?
Many are concerned about the financial burden that the ICD-10 implementation might create for healthcare providers. However, there are some ways the physicians can improve the clinical documentation and therefore the coding reimbursements. Being creatures of habit, they have tended to rely on memorized codes. If the reliance on memorization is minimized, reimbursements can improve. There are more anatomic specific codes in the new system, and that makes memorization even more difficult.
Read MoreInverted Files, Parsing, Discovery, and Clustering
Last time, I told you that inverted files and Boolean are basic to most or all search. So, what we have is the inverted file – that big alphabetical list of all the terms and where they came from – and a way to combine them. At the end of the day, no matter which direction you come from on the high end and even higher presentation levels, you are depending on these two to make it work. If you add that taxonomy to that, you are strengthening the use of your terms.
Read MoreT-Minus: One Week and Counting!
We’re busy putting the final preparations on the Ninth Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting. This year’s meeting is gearing up to be our biggest and best meeting yet! If we can assist you as you plan your trip to Albuquerque, please contact Heather Kotula or Susan Burritt at any time.
Read MoreSeeking Comprehensive Results
Daminion Software has released its digital asset management (DAM) system, appropriately named Daminion Server. This program is targeted to home users who want to create a centralized photo and video archive that could be accessible from all computers in a local network.
Read MoreThe Structure of It All
Along with everything else in the world, technology is changing at a rapid rate. This has affected all industries and all types of technology, but especially enterprise technology. This has resulted in a new generation of information architecture: event-driven.
Read MoreGrowing Amount of Data
The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters recently released a report affirming that global submission rates for academic journals have peaked higher than in the last six years.
Read MoreThe Need for Storage
Unstructured data is becoming more prevalent, and few organizations aren’t struggling with how to handle this growing problem. Microsoft’s SharePoint document repository was designed to provide content collaboration and version control, but unfortunately, as the number of users increases, so does the amount of data that is stored in SharePoint.
Read MoreOntology Gets New Leadership
Ontology Systems has appointed Martin James to head its worldwide sales operations. His task is to drive further growth and expansion for the company.
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