Access Insights

John Kuranz Brings 30+ Years’ Expertise to Access Integrity

By |June 24th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on John Kuranz Brings 30+ Years’ Expertise to Access Integrity

Access Innovations is proud to announce John Kuranz as chief executive officer of its newest endeavor, Access Integrity — which employs Access Innovations’ award-winning Data Harmony software suite to the medical coding and billing industries.

Outlining the World (and Its Parts)

By |June 17th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Outlining the World (and Its Parts)

As we have seen, there were a lot of early philosophers who outlined the world as they saw it. While that’s an ambitious undertaking (especially for academic trailblazers), they truly built an outline; they truly built a taxonomy of the world as they saw it.

The Wonderful World of Search

By |June 10th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, search|Comments Off on The Wonderful World of Search

Search is such a wonderful and widely debated issue. To me there are three main kinds of search and each is accomplished in different ways. Assume that we have an article indexed with the terms appropriate to the content of that article. These terms are specific to the content, the terms applied are not broad categories unless the article itself is broad. we put limits in the rule base on broad terms so they do not get over productive in search results.

Access Innovations Teams with Public Library of Science (PLOS) to Enhance Depth and Breadth of Information Retrieval

By |June 5th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Access Innovations Teams with Public Library of Science (PLOS) to Enhance Depth and Breadth of Information Retrieval

Albuquerque, NM — Access Innovations, a leading firm in information retrieval, has teamed with the Public Library of Science (PLOS), a non-profit multi-disciplinary publisher […]

Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group: Call for Papers

By |May 29th, 2013|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group: Call for Papers

The Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting has been scheduled for February 10-14, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You are cordially invited to join us for this milestone meeting.

Points of Knowledge

By |May 27th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Points of Knowledge

To deal with a large body of knowledge, we need to localize and organize it somehow. Where that knowledge is located, or where and how it is organized, or the system by which it is identified and perhaps indexed, might be called the points of knowledge. And certainly, databases connected to and/or indexed with knowledge organization systems represent points of knowledge.

A Short History of Thesauri

By |May 20th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on A Short History of Thesauri

We know of one Sanskrit thesaurus, the Amarakosha (Treasury or Dictionary of Amara), written by Buddhist scholar Amara Simha around 375 or 400 AD. Interestingly, it was written in verse. (The only other terminology in verse I can think of offhand is the one-L lama one by Ogden Nash, but I don’t think that bears comparison to the Amarakosha.)

Triumph Learning Partners with Access Innovations on Common Core Standards-Integrated Taxonomy

By |May 13th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Triumph Learning Partners with Access Innovations on Common Core Standards-Integrated Taxonomy

Triumph Learning LLC, a New York-based print and digital educational content company, has partnered with Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in taxonomy development, to create a new, state-of-the-art taxonomy designed to precisely align standards-based instructional content for all grades in the K– 12 education market.

Ranganathan, Classification, and British Toys

I’ve mentioned Ranganathan briefly in some earlier posts. Let’s look at his innovations and influence from a historical perspective.

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was an Indian mathematician and […]