Healthline Networks is one of the fastest growing providers of intelligent health information services and their president and COO, Dean Stephens, will moderate an mHealth panel at the first HealthTech: Next Generation Conference on August 12. The event takes place at the Hilton San Francisco Airport Bayfront Hotel in Burlingame.
Knowledge is power, that is no secret. In the legal services world, nothing could be truer. According to Ted Tjaden, national director of knowledge management at McMillan LLP and author of “The Seven Faces of Legal Knowledge Management”, there is a method to knowing what to know and why.
ProQuest has acquired UK-based Expert Information. Together, they will expand the global reach of ProQuest’s dissertations publishing program with Expert Information’s Index to Theses and Theses.com.
Why is it that people seem to feel that they need to get the platform and the technology in place and tested before they ever work on the organization of their information and cleaning up the data? They do not look at the data and what the data needs to be best used by the user community. I am repeatedly getting told that the DTD/Schema for the data and the taxonomy implementation have been pushed back because they are working on implementing the platform. What do they think the platform is for? Without well organized and well formed test data how will they even begin to know that the system will be able to work well for their information? How do they know that the user can find anything in the proposed system if they have no idea what the data is like? Where are the taxonomy terms going to go in the database or the record or the system? How are they bound to the information they reference? Building the platform first is like buying a pair of shoes without knowing either the size of the foot or the occasion for which they are to be worn. Rant! Rant
Often once an organization gets their new document imaging software and scanning equipment up and running, they sit back on their laurels and management business as usual. But that can be costly. In order to maintain the investment, it is important to revisit it frequently.
Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, Taxonomies in Search webinar will be held Wednesday, August 10th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).