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Rule Base Solutions
People often ask us how much time it will take to manage a rule base with Data Harmony software. We reply with specific customer experience numbers and tell them a few hours per month of editorial time to maintain both the thesaurus and the rule base. One customer of ours, the American Institute of Physics, found that maintaining their thesaurus and rule base takes less than 15 hours per month for 2000 articles per week throughput. Another customer, The Weather Channel, manages breaking news all day long with four hours per month of maintenance.
Read MoreData Harmony Version 3.9 Includes MAI Batch GUI – A New Interface For M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer) and MAIstro™ Modules
Access Innovations, Inc. announces the inclusion of the MAI Batch Graphical User Interface (GUI) as part of the recent Data Harmony Version 3.9 software update release. MAI Batch GUI is a new interface for running a full directory of files through the M.A.I. Concept Extractor. This tool enables processing of large amounts of text through the Data Harmony MAI Concept Extractor with a single command.
Read MoreBlind Alleys, Dead Ends, and Mazes
Taxonomies can be displayed in a variety of ways. One of the display types that we occasionally see is known as the flat format display. It’s described in the main U.S. standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, published by the National Information Standards Organization.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Semantic Fingerprinting Web Service Extension for Data Harmony Version 3.9
Access Innovations, Inc. announces the Semantic Fingerprinting Web service extension as part of their Data Harmony Version 3.9 release. Semantic Fingerprinting is a managed Web service offered to scholarly publishers to disambiguate author names and affiliations by leveraging semantic metadata within an existing publishing pipeline.
Read MoreNIOSH’s Office of Mine Safety and Health Research Implements Taxonomy-based Navigation
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Office of Mine Safety and Health Research (OMSHR) has implemented a taxonomy-based navigation tool on their website — called “Site Browser” — that allows researchers and other users to browse content tagged with subject terms from their taxonomy.
Read MorePutting Human Intelligence To Work To Enhance the Value of Information Assets
Semantic enhancement extends beyond journal article indexing, though the ability of users to easily find all the relevant articles (your assets) when searching still remains the central purpose. Now, in addition to articles, semantic “fingerprinting” is used for identifying and clustering ancillary published resources, media, events, authors, members or subscribers, and industry experts. The system…
Read MoreThe Size of Your Thesaurus
During the initial stages of discussing a new taxonomy project, I am frequently asked questions like: How granular does my taxonomy need to be? How many levels deep should the vocabulary go? And especially: How many terms should my thesaurus have? The answer is—of course—it depends.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Smart Submit Extension Module to Data Harmony Version 3.9
Access Innovations, Inc. announces the Author Submit extension module as part of their Data Harmony Version 3.9 release. Author Submit is a Data Harmony application for integration of author-selected subject metadata information into a publishing workflow during the paper submissions or upload process. Author Submit facilitates the addition of taxonomy terms by the author. With Author Submit, each author provides subject metadata from the publisher taxonomy to accompany the item they are submitting. During the submission process, Data Harmony’s M.A.I. core application suggests subject terms based on a controlled vocabulary, and the author chooses appropriate terms to describe the content of their document, thus enabling early categorization and selection of peer reviewers and support for trend analysis.
Read MoreIdentifying the Contributors
Collaboration is a key component of research. Original research papers with a single author are — particularly in the life sciences — a vanishing breed. This makes it difficult to identify author contributions and acknowledgements, as well as to mine any data from the unstructured information.
Read MoreHold the Mayo! A study in ambiguity
When we (at least those of us in Greater Mexico) hear of or read about Cinco de Mayo there is no question in our minds that “Mayo” refers to the month of May. The preceding “Cinco de” (Spanish for “Fifth of”) pretty much clinches it. Of course, if the overall content is in Spanish, there might still might be some ambiguity about whether it is the holiday that is being referred to, or simply a date that happens to be the one after the fourth of May. (As in “Hey, what day do we get off work?” “The fourth of July, I think.”)
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