Posts by Melody Smith
Inverted 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.
Read MoreComputers Can’t Replace Training
Computer assisted indexing can be a huge help in building a solid information architecture. We know that. We live that. However, it doesn’t solve all the problems. You still need solid medical coding training to face the challenges that will come with the ICD-10 coding classification transition.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Continues To Advance
While Watson, IBM’s semantic wonder, impressed us all last year, computers are still a long way from being the robotic brains that Hollywood likes to present. Computers can do almost anything, but they still just do what they are told. However, the Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network, or Spaun, is quickly moving into the next category of thinking for itself.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Partners with Leading Scientific Organizations for the Launch of a New Thesaurus Created for Astronomy Community
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in semantic enrichment, has teamed up with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) to create a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers.
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