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Remembrance Through Archiving and Cataloging
Memorial Day. It’s viewed as the unofficial start of summer. Public pools open, kids are out of school, and BBQ grills are fired up all over the nation. However, Memorial Day is also a national solemn day of remembrance for those who have served our country. The origins of Memorial Day are widely debated. Many…
Read MoreAccess Innovations to Overhaul Metropolitan Opera Archive Database
Access Innovations is pleased to announce an engagement with the Metropolitan Opera to redesign the database for the Opera’s archive. The Metropolitan Opera Archive provides public access to records of every performance by the venerable company including operas, performers, roles, and reviews; it also contains links to other media such as historic photographs and playbills.…
Read MoreOrganizing Knowledge
Humans classify and categorize everything from types of writing instruments to breeds of animals. Marjorie Hlava in her Taxobook states “you could even say that taxonomies and thesauri exist to further the objective of organizing knowledge.” It seems it is in our nature as humans to try and classify things. One example of human classification…
Read MoreGo Baby Go!
The Kentucky Derby may be the most widely anticipated and discussed two-minute sports event of the year. For folks outside the 30-mile radius of Louisville, Kentucky, it is just a horse race. For folks inside that radius, “derby” is a culture, one of big hats, bow ties, and bourbon. As an aside, let me say…
Read MoreOne More Time With Feeling
In keeping with the music theme from last week’s post about naming music groups, and in light of recent events associated with Prince’s death, as well as the American Libraries Associations Preservation Week, let’s discuss what happens when archival and general search produces bad results.
Read MoreIntegraCoder, Powered by Data Harmony, Now Fully Integrated in the athenahealth EHR
Access Innovations, under subsidiary Access Integrity, and Find-A-Code are pleased to announce that IntegraCoder, their combined medical record analysis system, is now fully integrated within athenahealth, one of the nation’s largest electronic health record (EHR) management companies. Providers using IntegraCoder in the athenahealth EHR system will now have access to the 3rd party medical coding…
Read MoreCreating an Ontology to Track Garbage in Space
Space isn’t normally the place where you think to clean up your litter. A vast, open environment, uninhabitable by man and covering an unimaginable amount of area, outer space appears to be the one place where rubbish tends to be unimportant. Recent reports have surfaced detailing the importance of tracking space debris in order to…
Read MoreAchoo!
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Sneeze_Inducement It is spring time, and if you live in Kentucky, this means more than horse races and bluegrass. It means things are blooming, your eyes are watering, and you feel like a wadded up ball of sandpaper has set up camp in your throat, permanently. I am not a native Louisvillian. I moved here…
Read MoreTaxonomies Really Are Everywhere
Taxonomy or classification exists in the fields of economics, nature, society, etc. This is not news to any of us. We may not call it taxonomy, but we see it when we walk through the grocery store in aisle signs, or when you fill out your income taxes and find yourself, much to your dismay, in…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Works with ASCE to Launch New Civil Engineering Database
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE contracted Access Innovations in 2014 to begin transforming their corpus of civil engineering records from their existing relational database into an XML database. To do this, Access Innovations ingested nearly 250,000…
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