Posts by Melody Smith
New Developer Tools Released
Couchbase has released a developer preview of the Couchbase Server 2.0 document-oriented NoSQL database. Combining the elastic data management capabilities of its own Membase Server technology with the distributed indexing and querying capabilities of Apache CouchDB, Couchbase continues to mark its territory as a database specialist. Claiming to have produced the most widely deployed open source document database, Couchbase describes its offering as “bullet-proof” NoSQL database technology.
Read MoreReading Between the Lines
Whether you are merely an individual wondering what your friends and colleagues are saying about you or a major retailer about to launch a new customer retention program, knowing what the word on the street is and more importantly, how to manipulate it is very important.
Read MoreThe Value of Data
Data is everywhere; on the Web, within an enterprise, in both closed and open academic communities, across every technological field or surface available. The Hindu brought this information to our attention in their article, “Connecting the dots, lucratively.” This frequency and availability of data provides an opportunity for analytics and analytics can provide perspective.
Read MoreThe Road to Semantic Technology
Do you long for the time when we can chat with our gadgets like the crew of the USS Enterprise did with its computer on Star Trek? I’m not sure I am ready for that level of intimacy or dependency on a computer, or like Dave Bowman and Frank Poole do in 2001 before HAL went violently bonkers?
Read MoreThe Benefit of Web-Scale Discoveries
Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of the librarian profession. The new web-scale discovery services for libraries provide quick searching seamlessly across various components of indexed content.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Creates Taxonomy For Iowa Code, Administrative Code, and Acts
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has collaborated with the Iowa Legislative Services Agency to build a customized thesaurus that allows the Iowa Legislature General Assembly to easily access its extensive legal body of existing and proposed laws, bills, acts, and regulations by using controlled, vocabulary-driven indexing in addition to published indexing codes.
Read MoreThe Grammar Slaughter
Texting may be faster, more efficient and pretty much gets the job done. But the slippery slope of bad grammar we have taken from emails to texting has taken away all quality of writing and content. Using the smallest number of letters to get your message across does not equal writing. I cringe every time I get the text that simply says “k”. Because apparently typing an “o” in front of it is just too much to ask.
Read MoreTEMIS Chosen by Gannett
TEMIS was chosen by Gannett for its semantic content enrichment solution better known as Luxid. Their semantic tagging and linking software as a tagging engine assists in the categorization of news articles and consistent indexing of content against a common taxonomy.
Read MoreNew Venture Uses Semantic Fusion
Digital Reasoning and Semantic Research have announced their integration solution with Semantic data fusion and analysis software. This solution represents the first time that unstructured text analytics at scale has been combined with visualization and analytical workflow tools. The result will deliver a unique solution for automatically understanding people, places, and hidden relationships in big data.
Read MoreElsevier Recommends Continuing the Process
Elsevier/MC Strategies has announced its continued commitment to the ICD-10 transition and the introduction of a major revision to its e-book, A Guide to Education and Training for ICD-10 Implementation. Makes one wonder if the revision is about what to do in case of a delay?
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