Standards
Standards for the Clouds
The UK government’s national Cloud Computing strategy is soon to be published and many wonder what the decision on industry-wide standards will be. Rumors are they will not be developing new, but adapting to current ones available.
Read MoreQuadraMed 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.
Read MoreConference Focuses on Intelligent Health Information
Healthline Networks is one of the fastest growing providers of intelligent health information services and their president and COO, Dean Stephens, will moderate an mHealth panel at the first HealthTech: Next Generation Conference on August 12. The event takes place at the Hilton San Francisco Airport Bayfront Hotel in Burlingame.
Read MoreFrom Simple to Complex
People talk about different kinds of vocabularies. The differences usually have to do with the structure, or lack thereof. Sometimes, people refer to “flat lists”. These are one-level lists with no hierarchical structure. They can be uncontrolled or controlled lists. An uncontrolled list is a simple, flat structure. The uncontrolled list is your “Saturday list”.
Read MoreDigital Libraries Present New Challenges
Bibliographic data seems like it would be a fairly simple and straightforward thing. However, it is really just the beginning of the sorts of data tracked in library catalogs. What about metadata standards and information classification systems?
Read MoreStandards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven
Manually wading through unstructured, textual data archives to find documents to answer questions can be slow and expensive. New SAS Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits recently announced by SAS, improve the time to value from the automatic classification of unstructured, textual data and from text analytics efforts as a whole.
Read MoreMTSR 2011 Offers Special Track
The 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment will be a special track of the Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR) 2011. This will bring together researchers and practitioners working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective and in an international discussion forum.
Read MoreThe Standards of Watson
By now, IBM’s Jeopardy! champion Watson is old news. But the computer technology triumph, capable of understanding human language and broad knowledge topics, may have more to teach us.
Read MoreDataFacet for SharePoint Released
WAND has announced the release of DataFacet for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. DataFacet combines an available library of hundreds of pre-built taxonomies with a software add-on that extends the managed metadata feature in SharePoint 2010 and makes it easy for a company to deploy an enterprise taxonomy and document tagging in a SharePoint 2010 environment. PRWeb brought…
Read MoreStandardization of APIs
The API has become been the primary method of integration within IT circles. When SOA was at its peak, the focus was properly on the abstraction of business functions at the API level, to provide for reuse and consistency of process across applications. However with the focus of cloud APIs and infrastructure APIS on interoperability, it is difficult to get agreement between vendors on which functions make up a common base.
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