Posts by Melody Smith
Social, Search, and Semantics
Jetlore is launching a platform designed to power the development of a social application. This sets a new path from the past when developers would have to basically reinvent the wheel over and over again.
Read MoreA Different Approach to Data Storage
Most universities face a growing population of networked devices and in turn, a growing problem with data security. Many have taken on the challenge without investing in a system that is large and oversized (both in physical and technological space). UT Austin and UConn turned to Splunk.
Read MoreBeefing Up the Search
Search Technologies recently announced they offer two new services for Google Search Appliance users. The Entity Recognition Assessment and Sensitive Data Assessment Services beef up their line of technology dedicated to enterprise search implementation.
Read MoreData, Data, Data
Conversations continue to revolve around the rapid growth of data creation and storage. Organizations are looking for ways to process and access data at a faster pace, all the while improving customer service. Part of the challenge includes maneuvering through unstructured data, massive amounts of unstructured data.
Read MoreThe Importance of Taxonomies
The demand for knowledge management has broadened the use of taxonomies, as well as the opportunities for taxonomists to apply their skills.
Read MoreFinancial Side of ICD-10
We have talked about the various concerns of the impending ICD-10 conversion for quite some time now. Implementing the new coding classification system will have impact on many areas of healthcare, but let us not forget the financial markets and how this could change investors’ views of healthcare organizations.
Read MoreDon’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting – February 18-20, 2013
The Data Harmony Users Group meeting is almost a month away. Here is some logistical information for attendees, as well as another sneak peek at content to tempt those who haven’t registered yet.
Read MoreThe Countdown Continues
It is now 2013 and that means healthcare providers will be ramping up their efforts to prepare for the ICD-10 coding classification transition scheduled for October 1, 2014. Providers are scrambling to be prepared in all ways.
Read MoreWorking Well Together
The semantic web is being used for many types of organizations and for many applications. In the retail world, it is being developed to optimize the process. By creating ontologies that serve as a reference for the data found on the internet, semantic technology can create comprehensive evaluations for customers and business owners.
Read MoreSearch Engines and Related Tools
A search engine is different from search software. The terms are used interchangeably by people, but they are not the same. Search software is an application – a bunch of codes – and a search engine is a collection of servers with a lot of data on it that is indexing the Internet and delivering it by HTML pages to customers. It is doing that by spidering around to get the information, usually from those metaname headers, and now increasingly from full text and putting that information up and comparing it, searching it. You all have some idea of how Google, Lycos, Bing, and all those other ones work, so you know what happens here. Again, a search engine is different from search software.
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