Posts by Melody Smith
The Technology Divide
Speaking about knowledge organizations and referring to monopolies like cable companies, one writer lifts up the challenges of the Internet and the challenges some have of accessing the Internet.
Read MoreAre the Clouds Full?
We have all been there at one time or another. You are waiting for a page to load, a photo to appear or an application to respond. The little circle just keeps rotating but nothing ever appears. You jiggle the mouse – as if that ever helps – and wait some more. Is there a problem with the clouds where all your precious data is stored? Or have they become like the mall at Christmas time and are just too full and busy to be efficient?
Read MoreE-Learning Continues to Advance
LoudCloud Systems releases another innovative e-learning feature with mobile accessibility. This platform feature is designed the iPad and will significantly aid students and instructors with their online learning experience.
Read MoreThe Importance of Humans
Automation is one of the topics a Beyond Search writer has taken issue with recently. The involvement of humans with indexing and taxonomies seems to be a “for or against” issue. Few stand in the arena of neutrality.
Read MoreMore Concerns for Healthcare Providers
Many healthcare providers have added concerns to the already stressful ICD 10 transition. Last week the Department of Health and Human Services and CMS issued final regulations on the medical loss ratio, which guarantees health insurers spend at least 80 percent (for individual and small group markets) or 85 percent (for large group markets) of consumer premiums on medical care.
Read MoreTaxonomies Key to Findability
Findability is key for any document management system. Without being able to find documents quickly and easily, valuable time and money can be lost. This is achieved by creating strong taxonomies.
Read MorePaper Submission – Empowering the Authors – Part III of VI
As we continue talking about semantic integration and more specifically, use cases; here is a different kind of use case. Somebody in this case is uploading an article (and you’ll see this again in other venues) in this case a conference paper to the American Society for Information Science and Technology site. A prospective author uploads their paper, they fill in the blanks as appropriate, and up pops a list of appropriate taxonomy terms. The author, the submitting person, can then check off the list of terms they think are appropriate to their paper. Then the paper is saved, already indexed. They will have already indexed their paper, which saves people a lot of time. In any kind of venue, folks can do their own indexing.
Read MoreRelevant Search Results
Search has changed over the past few years. No longer is it just straight forward finding of your entered terms. It has changed to a relevance-powered search and retail marketing is the driving force.
Read MoreImproving Content and Classifications
Wielding SAS Text Analytics helps to reduce manual tagging, improves search results and supports ad revenue generation. This improved digital content performance is achieved by indexing, tagging and classifying data so that the ultimate in findability is achieved.
Read MoreNew App from National Library of Medicine
A new app combines semantic knowledge resources and technologies, such as a biomedical knowledge base, a semantic search engine, a distributed search engine, and a variety of smart content analysis and discovery services. The NLMplus can concurrently access 60 National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases, with a simple Google/Bing like user interface.
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