Adopting and Adapting Existing Word Lists and Taxonomies

In traditional taxonomy construction, you approach the body of knowledge, head for your ivory tower with its closed room and decide on the general structure of the field or discipline. From that single point, or perhaps multiple points, of knowledge, you are going to design a completely new taxonomy … and every now and then that works.

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Setting Records

Sysomos is celebrating the indexing of 100,000,000,000 social posts. This milestone of collecting social media data in real time from various sources such as blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and news sources is equivalent of 14 times the population of the Earth. Now we know why they say perspective is everything.

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Making Thesaurus Terms Work for Indexing

We’ve already discussed indexing. We are going to assign those terms to the documents based on the concepts. A thesaurus is also known as an indexing language. We’re controlling the synonyms – different terms for the same concept. They are polythemes or homonyms, depending on if you are European or stateside. They are the same words with different meanings, like lead.

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Webinars To Help Prepare for Transition

The deadline for compliance with the ICD-10 coding classification may not be until October 2014, but healthcare providers are working hard on preparing for the change. Because of this, Dolbey is hosting a series of webinars focusing on computer-assisted coding (CAC).

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Indexing Giant Re-Opens Genealogy Center

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has announced the re-opening of the Family History Center located in Lawton, Oklahoma. Genealogy has always been encouraged by the Church and the Family History Library maintains the world’s largest collection of microfilmed genealogical records in the world and has made it all digital.

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Document Management Education

It continues to be a challenge, but managing enterprise content has earned itself special focus in the educational and training arena. Nokusa Engineering Informatics (NokusaEI) is introducing a new series of AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) training programs in South Africa.

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Streamlining the ICD-10 Challenge

Healthcare providers are looking for ways to streamline the coding process during the ICD-10 coding classification system. The challenge of the transition includes the number of codes in the new ICD-10 system – five times the number of codes in the prior set.

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