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Taxonomies are the Foundation to Findability
Let’s start with the basics. Taxonomy is the organization of content into categories or topics and audiences to define content types. Taxonomies exist in every industry from science to information management to healthcare. Taxonomies provide consistency in terms and categories to enable findability in content. Findability is the ease with which information can be found. It means that users can easily find…
Read MoreThe Power of Semantic Search
Semantic search refers to the ability of search engines to consider the intent and contextual meaning of search phrases when serving content to users on the web. At one time, search engines could only analyze the exact phrasing of a search term when matching results with a search query. Now, search algorithms are more sophisticated…
Read MoreProject ECHO Taxonomy Project Completed
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the completion of a taxonomy project with Project ECHO, a healthcare telementoring initiative based at the University of New Mexico. As the ECHO Digital platform grows to serve new geographies and new domains of knowledge, a key challenge they must overcome is…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. and Atypon: better together
In early February, Atypon team members Hong Zhou, Director of Product Management and Gerasimos Razis, Product Manager, who both specialize in Artificial Intelligence, presented to Access Innovations’ Data Harmony User Group meeting (DHUG). Access Innovations and Atypon have been collaborating to provide a complete taxonomic workflow and to optimize Literatum’s taxonomy functionality toward improved classification, search and discovery. Together,…
Read MoreOntology and Data
The idea of an ontology is that it represents complex relationships among the objects or concepts themselves. So the intent of an ontology is to provide a way to connect objects. In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming and definition of the categories, properties and relations between the concepts, data and entities that substantiate one,…
Read MoreData Governance Career Path
Done correctly, data governance can transform the way an organization manages and capitalizes on its data. However, because it spans a variety of people, processes, policies, and technologies data governance can be a daunting effort. The term data governance can have a variety of definitions. But once you start exploring, every explanation of the term…
Read MoreSave the Date for DHUG East
Access Innovations is looking forward to an “in-person” Data Harmony Users Group East (DHUGE) on October 14, 2021. Yes, you read that correctly. Face-to-face networking and learning at the ASCE Bechtel Conference Center, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Reston, VA 20191. ASCE has implemented all appropriate safety measures regarding COVID-19, and if those are still in place…
Read MoreTrust the Science
More and more over the past year we continue to hear “trust in science” when it comes to social distancing recommendations and safety protocols in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are way too many cynics when it comes to trusting the professionals, and then they pulled it into the political arena which only made…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Named a KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter Most in Knowledge Management
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce they have once again been named to KMWorld’s 100 Companies That Matter Most in Knowledge Management. This is the seventh year that the company has been included on the list. The KMWorld website says “The annual list of 100 Companies That Matter…
Read MoreUsing Semantics
Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. It is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) based on the idea that systems can learn from data, identify patterns and make decisions like humans, but with minimal human intervention. The problem with likening machine learning to human learning is that when humans learn, they…
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