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Linguamatics has launched I2E Semantic Enrichment to provide increased return on investment in enterprise search systems and radically improve speed to insight.
July 2014
Buzzwords, Bling, and Being Snowed
By Melody Smith|July 28th, 20142014-07-27T21:09:03-04:00
I recently had the opportunity to see webinars featuring a couple of software systems for taxonomy construction/management and content categorization. The systems were both impressive and, if I didn't have 20 years in the business, I would have been totally awed ... and snowed. It's easy to be overwhelmed by a slick appearance and professional presentation.
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Data Storage in Today’s Environment
By Melody Smith|July 28th, 20142014-07-27T20:28:51-04:00
We have all heard the story about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official who while under investigation for allegedly mistreating Tea Party groups seeking tax exemptions, lost copies of her emails when her hard drive crashed. There are many questions about this that come to mind, but the most practical one would be - why is she backing up emails on a PC? The government has what appears to be unlimited resources when it wants it, yet they don't have such easily accessible technology as cloud storage?
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Information Architecture Position Available
By Melody Smith|July 25th, 20142014-07-24T22:22:23-04:00
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
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Digitization is Here
By Melody Smith|July 25th, 20142014-07-24T22:14:36-04:00
The Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is concerned that organizations are not properly prepared for the world of digitization that has arrived. This interesting […]
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Indexing Challenge Accepted and Bested
By Melody Smith|July 24th, 20142014-07-23T20:42:31-04:00
FamilySearch International recently announced a worldwide crowdsourcing challenge aimed at establishing a new record for the most volunteer indexing participants online in a single day.
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Managing the Chaos
By Melody Smith|July 24th, 20142014-07-23T20:38:50-04:00
The Dallas police department recently switched from its decades-old mainframe system to a new, $4 million records management system. The department also launched a new field-based report system. The roll-out wasn't considered a success.
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Reducing Redundancy
By Melody Smith|July 23rd, 20142014-07-22T22:06:40-04:00
The United States Navy plans to deploy a prototype enterprise-wide records and task management software system designed to replace redundant systems.
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Standards Level the Playing Fields
By Melody Smith|July 23rd, 20142014-07-22T22:01:07-04:00
There is constant conversation about technology, performance, and storage in the world of information services. It appears to be a never-ending cycle of regenerating work all focused on getting the optimal performance out of our technology at any one moment in time.
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A Marriage of the Past and the Future
By Melody Smith|July 22nd, 20142014-07-21T21:09:47-04:00
Katy Klettlinger became Licking County’s first records center coordinator in November 2008 to store and preserve public records. The position was one of solitude at first but now oversees three other full-time employees: one reference archivist and two imaging technicians. They preserve public records on paper, in electronic form and on microfilm.
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