Posts by Melody Smith
Crowdsourcing Needs a Solid Taxonomy
Editing by committee is a prolonged, mostly painful, process that quite often sends me running away seeking refuge among my own office and my own delete key. Crowdsourcing can be very similar. One approach that can help is to have a taxonomy built with categories and terms that apply to the entire industry.
Read MoreFont Awareness
Shelf Awareness is a Web-based resource for readers and those in the book trade. It was brought my attention by Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness’s book review editor. (Full disclosure, Marilyn is my cousin.) I bring this wonderful resource to your attention for a variety of reasons not the least of which is their free email newsletter service for readers and one for professionals in the book trade. Twice a week I get an email containing reviews of a wide variety of new, recent, and sometimes classic, fiction and nonfiction works.
Read MoreCost Reduction Options for Hospitals
Many are concerned about the cost of healthcare, patients and hospitals alike. Cuts in Medicare funding, increases in insurance premiums, and new federal requirements (such as the ICD-10 medical coding transition) are putting pressure on everyone to find ways to cut costs. We found this pertinent information on Becker’s Hospital Review in their article, “6…
Read MorePatentVista Manages Patents with Taxonomies
UBM TechInsights has released the next generation of PatentVista, a patent portfolio management software. PatentVista provides an intuitive interface designed to help licensing teams make better decisions. The taxonomy tool enables organizations to leverage their internal expertise to organize, rate, review and search their patents.
Read MoreICD-10 Projects Increasing
IT management and healthcare professionals across the country are ramping up projects to create their ICD-10 plan as the December 13, 2013 deadline date nears. Everyone is facing common challenges of budget, bandwidth, staffing, training and of course, technical issues.
Read MoreDoD Seeks Common Ontology
ARINC Engineering Services, LLC sent three recognized experts in U.S. Department of Defense supply chain management to provide instruction and chair several sessions at the 2011 DMSMS & Standardization Conference this week.
Read MorePowerSearch Releases V3.0
PowerSearch Software has released version 3.0 of their search technology product. New features include an increased reach by determining relevance for documents.
Read MoreChanging Search Into Found
With the volume of data doubling every four to six months, findability within that data has never been more important. Many are looking to indexing as the solution to this problem.
Read MoreXenData Launches New Interface
XenData will soon be unveiling a new interface at IBC 2011 that integrates the range of XenData archive server solutions with Harmonics Media Application Server and ProXplore, seamlessly.
Read MoreBig is Not So New
There has been lots of talk lately about big data and how we will handle it, as though it was a new problem. Given, data is being produced faster than ever before in history. However, in the retail world, transaction analysis and POS data is not new. The word we are looking for is diverse. It isn’t just numeric data anymore; it is text based and image based.
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