Conference Early Bird Discount Ends Friday

The Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego, CA on April 17-22, 2016 is just around the corner, and if you haven’t made the decision to attend yet, maybe the list of speakers and topics will help you make up your mind. The speakers can change the way you make decisions in our data-driven world and…

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Looking Forward To DHUG: Part 2

Wednesday, February 10 is the second official day of DHUG, and it kicks off with a bang. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Moriba Jah, who hates being called “the garbage man of space,” opens the session. Dr. Jah is an astrodynamicist and one of the world’s premiere authorities on space debris, which consists of anything from…

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Looking Forward To DHUG: Part 1

It’s that special time of year again, the snowcapped mountains and chilly air a reminder that spring is still a few weeks away.  It’s also a reminder that something else is just around the corner, as well: the 2016 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting. It’s the most exciting time of the year here at…

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Register Today for the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

It is not too late to register for the twelfth annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled for February 9-10, 2016 at the Access Innovations, Inc. offices located at 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Access Innovations, the company behind the Data Harmony product line, hosts the annual meeting. Case studies…

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Our Top Information Industry Trends of 2015

The Demise of the “Physical Book” has been exaggerated The Information Industry has no single central meeting Taxonomies are used in websites but not in search Analytics are booming. Changing information landscape Google Scholar Semantics, Linked Data, and the cloud Boomers are not retiring The weather in Albuquerque is cold and overcast with a chance…

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The Ghosts of Concepts Future

The bell struck twelve. The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. … It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from…

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Using Taxonomies to Organize Associations

as·so·ci·a·tion  (ə-sō′sē-ā′shən) We use taxonomies and ontologies to organize document collections. But controlled vocabularies (of a sort) are also used to organize the aisles in a grocery or hardware store, clothes in the closet, and your kitchen. In the last two cases, the subject matter expert (SME) is definitely you! If you are more comfortable…

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Talk About the Weather

The weather professionals have been puffed up and posturing with graphs, maps and all their Doppler mechanisms for several weeks now trying to predict what the winter of 2015-16 will be like. Will there be blizzards like we’ve never seen? Will there be ice storms that shut down cities, airports and interstates? Or will it…

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