Taxodiary – Access Insights

The Information Age-less

By Melody Smith|August 29th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Information Age-less

In a blog post last week, I discussed Robert Darnton’s recently published article in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “The Chronicle Review”, where Mr. Darnton identified and debunked, “5 Myths About the Information Age.” The first myth he debunked was the notion that the book is dead. Not only is the book not dead, it is thriving. I commented on the relationship between the printed page and how it can be supported by digital content and vice versa. One can drive greater usage of the other, if the digital content is effectively designed.

QuadraMed Releases New Version of Coding Software

By Melody Smith|August 29th, 2011|Access Insights, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on QuadraMed Releases New Version of Coding Software

QuadraMed has released a new version of Quantim® Facility Coding that supports both ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets.

From Paper To Digital

By Melody Smith|August 22nd, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, semantic|1 Comment

Reading anything on digital devices has many physical, behavioral, and psychological limitations as well as advantages. At the very least, eye fatigue sets in even before the battery warning light starts scolding you. A digital summer read at the beach becomes fraught with hazards as sand starts creeping into your iPad and the glare has given you a crushing headache. Will your pursuit of a great vacation read drive you indoors? Under the porch? Into the deep woods? Will you become a pasty white, reclusive figure forever lurking in the darker recesses of society in search of shadowy environs so you can catch, glare free, that illusive, perfectly crafted phrase? Digital readers are getting better at handling varied lighting conditions, but there are still challenges.

Access Innovations, Inc. Announces the Access Innovations Health Integrity Initiative (AI³)

By Melody Smith|August 17th, 2011|Access Insights, News, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. Announces the Access Innovations Health Integrity Initiative (AI³)

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data integrity and content creation, has announced the Access Innovations Integrity Initiative (AI³), a suite of tools and services for quality assurance and validation of medical coding.

Connecting the Taxonomy with Search

By Melody Smith|August 15th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|1 Comment

A customer asked me "how is the taxonomy connected to search?" Their search vendor says they can implement the full taxonomy. This is such a simple question - such a long winded answer below.

Coordinating Platform and Taxonomy Implementations Intelligently

By Melody Smith|August 8th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Why is it that people seem to feel that they need to get the platform and the technology in place and tested before they ever work on the organization of their information and cleaning up the data? They do not look at the data and what the data needs to be best used by the user community. I am repeatedly getting told that the DTD/Schema for the data and the taxonomy implementation have been pushed back because they are working on implementing the platform. What do they think the platform is for? Without well organized and well formed test data how will they even begin to know that the system will be able to work well for their information? How do they know that the user can find anything in the proposed system if they have no idea what the data is like? Where are the taxonomy terms going to go in the database or the record or the system? How are they bound to the information they reference? Building the platform first is like buying a pair of shoes without knowing either the size of the foot or the occasion for which they are to be worn. Rant! Rant

“Taxonomies in Search” Webinar

By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2011|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, Taxonomies in Search webinar will be held Wednesday, August 10th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

ASIS&T and Access Innovations Host Webinar

By Melody Smith|August 4th, 2011|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on ASIS&T and Access Innovations Host Webinar

ASIS&T and Access Innovations are hosting a webinar on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (EDT). The webinar is named “Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation” and the facilitators will be Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., and Joe Shepley, Vice President and Practice leader for Doculabs.

Time for the Music Ontology

By Melody Smith|August 1st, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, ontology|1 Comment

At this time in history, there’s so much music to describe. There have been so many compositions, so many recordings, and so many performances. How can we sort through it all? There are music databases that the public can contribute to, but how can we make the data consistent enough to be searchable?

Ontologies and Semantic Networks

By Melody Smith|July 25th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Ontologies and Semantic Networks

As knowledge organization systems increase in complexity, we have increasing numbers of dimensions or features or ways to define the terms. Semantic networks help with bringing all those concepts together and tagging them so that you can look at them in lots of different ways.