Posts by Melody Smith
Finding New Among the Old
Indexing is becoming one of the key information management methods. That is not new news. The fascination of categorizing and putting vast information in a findable form is what drives good taxonomy building.
Read MoreROI During Coding Migration
In the healthcare world, the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is one of the most impactful change to a healthcare provider’s business. With the dramatic increase in codes from roughly 18,000 to more than 140,000, processes for scheduling, care delivery, diagnostics, billing, and analytics will all change in one way or another.
Read MoreNew Academic Publishing Platform Being Built
Publishing Technology has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research. The new online platform for research into governance, sustainability and the environment will be built using Publishing Technology’s innovative semantic web based publishing software, pub2web.
Read MorePostgreSQL 9.1 Released
The PostgreSQL 9.1 open source database offers users new features including some that are not duplicated with any other vendor.
Read MoreTraditional Media Still Hanging On
Despite the predictions of many, the death of traditional media may not have arrived, just yet. The latest Ipsos Mendelsohn survey of affluent Americans reveals less than 20% of “rich” Americans have embraced newer technologies.
Read MoreLRMI Project Forms Working Group
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project creating a common vocabulary for describing learning resources on the Internet. They have recently announced the formation of their technical working group, which includes representatives from leading experts in the fields of education, publishing, and metadata.
Read MoreSharePoint 2010 Implementation Navigation
SharePoint 2010 deployment requires some process planning. Few would argue with that. But even with the best laid plans and intentions, there can be annoying and problematic issues.
Read MoreUS Army & AI
Ariston Consulting and ai-one has formed a strategic partnership that will provide the US Army’s Electronic Proving Grounds with machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed (C5ISR) systems.
Read MoreNew White Paper on Metadata Released
Widen Enterprises has teamed with JohnHorodyski to produce a new white paper titled, “A guide to the lifeblood of DAM: Key concepts and best practices for using metadata in digital asset management systems.”
Read MoreLarge Data Sets and Ever Changing Terminology
Indexing enables accurate, consistent retrieval to the full depth and breadth of the collection. This does not mean that the statistics-based systems the government loves so much, will go away but, they are learning to embrace the addition of taxonomy terms as indexing.
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