Posts by Melody Smith
New Medical Coding Changes the Rules of the Playground
Few areas of healthcare are exempt from staring at a deadline that though two years away, isn’t feeling way too close for comfort. To prepare for the change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 providers aren’t the only ones impacted by the coding switch. Vendors and payers are also feeling the crunch.
Read MoreLabeling or Profiling?
Labeling people based on behaviors is not a new technology or even behavior. This has been done since the beginning of time. However, with the advancement of semantic technology and the flood of data available, it has become overwhelming to discern a simplified approach to organization.
Read MoreChocolate as a Teaching Tool
Fast Company’s Co.Design shared their Infographic of the Day, “A Visual Taxonomy Of Every Chocolate Candy, Ever”, and it made me smile. Not just for the chocolate and food aspect, though I freely admit both of those categories make me smile, but for the nostalgia it brings to mind.
Read MoreSemantic 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.
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