News

KMWorld Award Goes to Mindbreeze

By |October 23rd, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on KMWorld Award Goes to Mindbreeze

Mindbreeze has received the much sought after KMWorld Award for their semantic search product, Mindbreeze InSite, for the sixth time.

Access Integrity Announces Debut of HCPCS Tagger Technology

By |October 21st, 2013|Access Insights, Autoindexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Access Integrity Announces Debut of HCPCS Tagger Technology

The patented, rule-based application searches and analyzes the text in providers’ notes in electronic medical records to suggest highly relevant Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes for human review. Access Integrity CEO John Kuranz says the new technology will revolutionize the medical coding and billing industries.

Semantic News

By |October 18th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic News

Journalism, printing, and news have been under fire for years and the constant threat of social media and digital keeps them hopping just to keep up. So what has the effect of the semantic web had on the art of journalism?

Better Together

By |October 18th, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Better Together

FactSet Research Systems has acquired Revere Data. FactSet provides industry intelligence and analytics to help investment professionals perform. Revere provides data to enable capital market professionals to manage portfolio risk and make more informed investment decisions through unprecedented visibility into global companies. Revere has built an industry taxonomy that offers investors a way to classify companies and analyze how they fit in the global economy.

Honoring the Standards and the Standards Makers

By |October 17th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Honoring the Standards and the Standards Makers

There is a National Ice Cream Day, a National Hopscotch Day, and a World Beard Day, so why shouldn't there be a World Standards Day?

The Semantics of Search

By |October 17th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on The Semantics of Search

Search has been morphing with regard to how you approach it, use it, and refer to it for some time now. Enter search engine optimization efforts and the focus or goal of search changed. Then came semantic search, which has changed the game even more. This interesting topic came from Forbes in their article, “Search Is Dead… Long Live Search!”

The Power of Google+

By |October 16th, 2013|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on The Power of Google+

A recent study by Stone Temple Consulting on whether or not Google + shares alone can affect search engine rank. This seems a little precise for a study, but they took three websites and had two unique pages of applicable content published on each. One was a control page and one was a test page. Next , they had Google+ influencers share the page, as well as a handful of other participants who were instructed to only share the page, not visit or link to it in any other way.

Growing the Crowd

By |October 16th, 2013|indexing, News|Comments Off on Growing the Crowd

CrowdSource works with national clients such as BazaarVoice, Citysearch, Dictionary.com, and ToysRUs, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they have recently launched Transcribe.com, which adds audio and video transcription solutions to its list of managed crowdsourcing solutions. This interesting news was found on Digital Journal in their article, “CrowdSource Expands With Launch of Crowd-Powered Transcription Company.”