Posts by Melody Smith
Semantic Enrichment Solutions
TEMIS has launched the next generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment solution, Luxid(R). This semantic tagging platform automatically extracts relevant information and identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents.
Read MoreAlfresco Includes Social Media in Their Latest Release
Alfresco has released their latest community version of their platform at JaveOne, Alfresco Community 4, with many new features. Among those features are an improved user interface and tooling to allow support of popular technology trends, such as cloud computing and social media.
Read MoreNew Patent for Indexing System
Decernis receives new patent for an indexing system and method to identify and validate chemicals, foods, and commodities in documents and databases. This innovation enables a user to find any reference to a food, chemical, or contaminant in any language across the Internet.
Read MoreMetadata Makes Information More Useful
Storage technologies for the semantic web is a challenging but popular area in technology. Internet and cloud computing users are seeking data management in a time when data is big. In tests designed to find the best storage technologies for Web 3.0, Apache’s Hadoop database, HBase, out-performed MySQL Cluster.
Read MoreTaxonomy Made it to the Big Time
Okay, I’ll be the first to admit this particular post is not about hard core business in the world of machine assisted indexing, ontology development or taxonomies. But it is related, somewhat… I just read that a new movie is being made is titled “A Taxonomy of Barnacles.” This interesting information was found on Alt Film Guide.
Read MoreNew Guide Recommends Taxonomy
European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has launched a guide that classifies Public and Private Partnerships (PPP) into prevention focused, response focused and umbrella PPPs. The 36 recommendations for resilient IT security outlines the need for a common understanding of what constitutes a PPP.
Read MoreEBSCO Acquires Vast Database
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has acquired the database, Ergonomics Abstracts™. The database focuses on ergonomics and human factors and provides indexing for eBooks, journal articles and reference works in a variety of fields that will be of value to academic libraries and research institutes.
Read MoreIntelligence Data Equals Big Data
Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS) has opened a new office in Rome, New York to better meet the growing needs of its main customer in the area, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Read MoreThe Y2K of Healthcare
Many healthcare professionals are in scrambling mode to beat the October 2013 deadline to move from ICD-9 to ICD-10
medical coding system. This has an upside for the economy. Anthelio, a healthcare technology company based in Dallas, plans to hire 200 people in Michigan, mostly medical insurance billers and coders. If there is a state that needs an economical boost, Michigan would fit that bill.
Proper Findability
Copies of articles can now be accessed quickly and cheaply using the IEEE Computer Society’s Instant Conference Download (ICD) service. ICD provides contributing authors with an alternative to buying print copies of the entire proceedings, which can take up to six weeks to order and receive.
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