The Thesaurus as a Domain Model in the Modern World

By admin | July 20, 2015

Source: Dreamstime Nowadays, taxonomies and thesauri are used largely for web navigation and for information search and retrieval. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, it’s largely the digital information revolution that has made their use for information search and retrieval a vital necessity in research, business, and numerous other types of activities. Taxonomies and…

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IntegraCoder® Version 2.0, Powered by Data Harmony®, Now Available Through Major EMR companies

By Melody Smith | July 13, 2015

IntegraCoder Version 2.0, the medical coding application developed by Access Integrity, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., and coding experts Find-A-Code, is now available as a component in the offerings of some of the nation’s largest electronic medical record (EMR) companies. Medical providers will now have access to the latest version of this application based…

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Smart Thesauri: Using Taxonomies with Linked Data

By Melody Smith | July 6, 2015

Note: A full version of this article is scheduled to be published in an upcoming issue of the IKO eNewsletter. As interest in Linked Data (LD) continues to grow, many organizations—publishers, corporations, universities, libraries—are increasingly interested in strategies to jump-start LD initiatives. Any organization that has an existing taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) can expedite…

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ICD-10 and Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | June 29, 2015

In Canada, the implementation of ICD-10 caused an approximate 50% drop in productivity in rates of coding in the health profession. Reports show that a year after implementation, productivity only returned to 80% of the original ICD-9 baseline. Now, more than a decade since Canada adopted the new coding system, they still have yet to…

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TaxoDiary Blog Achieves Milestones in Sharing Information

By Melody Smith | June 22, 2015

The TaxoDiary blog, which can be read at www.taxodiary.com and adds new posts on a daily basis every Monday through Friday, recently published its 3,000th blog post. TaxoDiary was started in August 2010 and is sponsored and maintained by Access Innovations, Inc., under the leadership of Access Innovations President Marjorie Hlava and Chief Executive Officer Jay…

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Father of Library Science

By Melody Smith | June 15, 2015

Father’s Day is coming up soon, so we thought we’d pay homage to Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article about him, Ranganathan “is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the rest of the world for his fundamental…

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Next stop – Boston!

By Melody Smith | June 9, 2015

Are you headed to the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference in Boston this week? We will see you there. Margie Hlava, President of Access Innovations, Inc. and Bob Kasenchak, Head of Product Development, will be leading a workshop titled, “So You Have a Taxonomy…Now What? Advanced Taxonomy Topics.” The workshop addresses the next steps beyond just…

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Down the Rabbit Hole

By Melody Smith | June 8, 2015

As many readers know, the main U.S. standard for taxonomies, thesauri, and other controlled vocabularies is ANSI/NISO Z39.19, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. The material on vocabulary displays covers types of vocabulary displays that might be unfamiliar. I’m guessing that some of these displays emerged as the result of…

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Cloudy with a chance of crab cakes

By Melody Smith | May 25, 2015

(Note: Back in November of 2013, TaxoDiary published the post “A Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification“, about the cloud formation tentatively labeled as Asperatus undulatus and the quest to achieve an official classification for it. The article below, which first appeared in the Apalachicola Times on April 8, 2015, focuses on matters of terminology concerning…

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