Posts by Melody Smith
New Databases Added
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has added three anthropology databases to the EBSCOhost® platform. The three databases are Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature, and Anthropology Plus, that obviously cover the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research.
Read MoreSocial Connections
With the increase in social media applications and the use of those applications, there are always new and varied ways to monitor customer sentiment. The basic technology employed for sentiment analysis includes natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics. Identifying and extracting subjective information from a variety of sources (such as web pages, online news, internet discussion groups, and social media) can produce interesting and useful data.
Read MoreCoding Requires Training
The impending ICD-10 coding classification transition is affecting all healthcare providers, but physicians are experiencing concerns that are more personal. Even though the delay was postponed until October 2014, physicians are concerned about the financial impact this new billing code system will have on their cash flow and reimbursements.
Read MoreA Look at Markup Languages
The most frequently used markup languages these days are those of the SGML family: SGML, HTML, and XML. Information professionals are likely to encounter all three fairly often.
Read MoreSharePoint and Search
Concept Searching recently announced that its core products – conceptSearch and conceptClassifier – are prepared for SharePoint 2013.
Read MoreOpen and Social
LinkedIn has open sourced all the software that it had acquired in the acquisition of the search engine software maker IndexTank. Now LinkedIn has joined the elite few of social media platforms that have already made their internal codes available to the open source developer community.
Read More‘Twas the night before Boot Camp
‘Twas the night before Boot Camp
And I thought I should know
Pecha Kucha – what is it?
Which way to go?
Indexing History
One county historical society is indexing images of civil and criminal offenses of the late 1800s to make the archives available to the public. All indexing has been done by hand and by volunteers. To date, nearly 1000 court cases from that era have been scanned and indexed.
Read MoreAccess Innovations named to EContent magazine’s annual 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is proud to announce its inclusion on EContent magazine’s annual list of the top 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Read MoreSeeking Security
Nextier Networks announced that Powerbloc Generation Sdn Bhd has been appointed as the authorized distributor of their data leak prevention (DLP) solution for Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
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