Posts by Melody Smith
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.
Read MoreStandardizing Data Integration
There is a lot of talk about big data, what it is, how to manage it and where to store it. At its core, big data is metadata and integrating it requires an experienced professional.
Read MoreData as Science
Scientists are more involved these days in discovering connections with the aid of data than traditional laboratory methods. However, large datasets can pose some difficulties, especially with integration. In scientific research circles, it can be a challenge to confirm the existence of data to correlate.
Read MoreMusical Access
HP recently announced that fans now have never before access to Paul McCartney’s new portal destination, www.paulmccartney.com , which hosts the musician’s vast digital library of music, lyrics, photos, collections, merchandise, blogs and more.
Read MoreOpen Source Project Looks to the Future
The Force11 project (the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship) describes itself as a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers, and research funders. Their vision could be considered ambitious in that they look to a future in which scientific information and scholarly communication more generally become part of a global, universal, and explicit network of knowledge.
Read MoreTaxonomies Simplify Data
There were many articles and posts over the past year about search, semantic technology and the clouds. 2011 was a busy year in the world of technology. One topic caught the attention of some more than others – integration and what it means to users.
Read MoreOntologies and Semantic Technology
Webnodes has released a new version of their .Net semantic content management system. This latest release features semantic e-commerce, several new mobile features, and support for ASP.Net MVC.
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Research
One recent report has identified some modern challenges facing physical science researchers. The report was commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Institute of Physics (IOP), IOP Publishing (IOPP), and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).
Read MoreRetail Social Media
Walmart has acquired a social start-up, OneRiot, for their Walmart Labs unit where they join another kindred spirit, Kosmix, Both of these acquisitions were done in an effort to analyze and understand the massive amounts of data coming in from social networks and sites.
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Only Goes So Far
The sirens call of natural language processing has been issued again. In this study, the researchers compared the use for free text searches to administrative codes to see which would give better indication of safety based on 20 indicators. The authors rightly suggest that instead of relying only on the notoriously poor check boxes used with discharge orders that the hand written notes form the discharge nurse or physician might be much more instructive.
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