Posts by Melody Smith
Movie Indexing Application Released
A new application has been released that can serve as your own personal video librarian. Move Explorer by Anlarke scans the files and adds data from both IMDb and MOVIEmeter. With titles, descriptions, artwork, and even user ratings, this makes a very manageable library for the movie buff.
Read MoreFoodie Search Engine
Vertical Search Works has launched their new VS4Food search offering for publishers. This vertical search engine resides on a publisher’s site where users can enter a query using a toolbar, and the search engine returns results from both the publisher and from other web sites relevant to the query.
Read MoreCataloging with SharePoint
Concept Searching has released conceptClassifier for SharePoint for Perkins+Will, an integrated design firm. Providing a solution for their cataloging challenge, they provided a way to organize the information stored on its intranet. They previously had multiple taxonomies. In the end, they had a logical collection of managed metadata that allowed the information to be found in a comprehensive way.
Read MoreMetadata Limitations
OpenSFS is a non-profit organization committed to maintaining the Lustre file system as a viable, open technology for the entire high performance computing (HPC) community. Three Lustre vendors were asked about the future of this open source file system.
Read MoreEverybody Procrastinates
In the spirit of all procrastinators, we can all relate to postponing undesired tasks. However, many are feeling that delaying the ICD-10 coding classification transition (which previously had an already pushed-back due date of October 2013) may be too much procrastination. With five times the number of diagnostic codes and the training involved for charting and coding, it is easy to understand why.
Read MoreStorage and SharePoint
Optimizing storage to meet the needs of scalability for productivity and cost control is important for any business, and users of Microsoft SharePoint are no exception. SharePoint automatically stores data in SQL Server content databases. As a relational database, SQL is efficient at storing structured data, but less so when dealing with larger, non-relational data streams. Unfortunately, this can often account for up to 95 percent of all data in a typical organization.
Read MoreMaintaining a Thesaurus in an Excel Workbook, Part 2
In Part 1, we looked at maintaining a taxonomy in Excel – a set of preferred terms arranged in a hierarchy. This taxonomy structure is a handy way to organize a group of terms and can be used across an industry for benchmarking or reporting requirements (see Strategies for Incorporating Data Exchange Standards in E-Business Taxonomies advocating for the construction industry and The IFRS Taxonomy, including the labels used in the International Financial Reporting Standards). Excel works quite well to create and maintain a taxonomy, but how about a thesaurus?
Read MoreIntegrating Data With Semantics
Semantic data integration and knowledge management software, Sentient Knowledge Explorer 4.0, address data for life sciences and healthcare. A simplified workflow makes it possible for users to integrate data more efficiently by making it easier to complete common integration tasks and interrogate multi-faceted data.
Read MoreMetadata Learning Opportunity
If you have ever wondered how metadata relates to your work as an LIS professional, this course will give you a sound introduction to the concepts behind metadata, demonstrate ways in which it is used in the LIS field and provide a practical opportunity to try creating and using metadata. This course is interactive and gives a good grounding for a variety of situations including: academic libraries, research institutions, digital repositories, records
centres, and public sector web sites.
Historical Indexing
The Lake County recorder’s office contains vital information, primarily about deeds and mortgages dating back to the first land deal with the Potawatomi Indians in 1836. This wealth of information is intriguing to genealogy buffs and historians, but digging through 10-pound books is quickly going away. Lake County Recorder Michelle Fajman is determined to create a digitized backup file that anyone can access without trekking down to the Lake County Government Center.
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