Posts by Melody Smith
New Integration Increases Findability
EBSCO Publishing and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. have expanded their collaboration by enabling a more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and Innovative’s Encore discovery platform.
Read MoreApple Looking to Connect Metadata and Social Networks
Apple has recently filed a patent application that describes a method for obtaining and adding metadata to files automatically using the Internet and various social networks. This interesting approach demonstrates Apple’s interest in creating connections with social networks.
Read MoreMAVIS Breaking Walls in Technology
Real-time, speaker-independent, automatic speech recognition was a focus of Microsoft Research, and the result produced the Deep-Neural-Network Speech Recognition based MAVIS. MAVIS (Microsoft Audio Video Indexing Service) indexes audio and video content and then allows users to search for a particular word or phrase across the entire content.
Read MoreQuantum Addresses Large e-Discovery Project
Quantum Discovery recently assisted a Top 100 Law Firm on an e-discovery project and document review with a data set containing approximately 415GB of email and network data. The approximately 2 million records could easily have overwhelmed any team using the traditional search term approach, but Quantum Discovery utilized Lateral Data’s Viewpoint TAR (Technology Assisted Review).
Read MoreSemantic Networks
Semantic networks provide structure to a set of concepts, as a network or a web. They are often defined as graph representations of the relationships among a set of concepts. In a larger sense, in the world of computer science, they are a set of concepts with relationships that are defined in such a way that computers, or the World Wide Web, can work with those relationships.
Read MoreHealthcare Plate is Getting Full
Folks like the American Medical Association are constantly referring to how complicated the ICD-10 implementation will be. We all know the stakes are high if healthcare providers don’t get it right. If only that was all the healthcare community had to deal with right now.
Read MoreLDS Continually Indexing
Almost as famous as their sponsor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), FamilySearch International is a non-profit organization known for their extensive indexed geneology collections. They continually add the collections of family records from around the world. Current indexing projects can be viewed online. Each project is posted with a unique set of indexing guidelines and interesting facts.
Read MoreNew Document Management Software Seeking Efficiency
Accusoft has released the ScanFix Xpress v7 software development toolkit as a part of their document, content and imaging solutions.
Read MoreImproving the Resourcefulness of Technology
The fastest supercomputers on the planet have multi-megawatt appetites, which makes some green HPC companies, such as IBM, very happy. The IBM Blue Gene/Q machine is currently number one in energy-efficient flops, but a new FPGA-like technology brought to market by semiconductor start-up eASIC is providing an even greener computing solution. And one HPC project in Japan, known as GRAPE, is using the chips to power its newest supercomputer.
Read MoreMetadata Standards
Metadata Technology North America has announced that it is working with the Institute of Child Health (ICH) in the United Kingdom on the development of tools to prepare, publish, and maintain data management plans aligned with the DMP Online recommendations. These tools will leverage the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata specification and the ISO 27001 security standards to capture the necessary information.
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