Looking at All Angles
It is important to plan your business from every perspective – employees, customers, market, etc. Information architecture is the next step to organizing information based on that analysis.
June 2014
New Words to Spell
By Melody Smith|June 5th, 20142014-06-04T22:50:00-04:00
Merriam-Webster has come out with its new list of approved words for 2014 and I am extremely excited. Not only are they new words I can add to my vocabulary, I can also potentially use them in Words with Friends or Scrabble.
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Ontology-Based Software Aiding in Treating Diabetes
By Melody Smith|June 5th, 20142014-06-04T22:47:39-04:00
Arab Open University's (AOU) branch in Oman has developed software for detection and risk assessment of diabetes and other related diseases. This software is ontology driven known as Decision Support System. It was developed as part of the Research Council (TRC) Open Research Grant program. AOU was awarded this project in 2012.
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Indexing History, Capturing Time
By Melody Smith|June 4th, 20142014-06-03T22:03:49-04:00
Historic audio and video footage is undergoing cataloguing and indexing as it gets closer to being fully integrated into the Visual History Archive. J. Michael Hagopian’s collection of 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses was handed over to the USC Shoah Foundation from the Armenian Film Foundation in an effort to preserve and integrate the collection.
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Data Everywhere
By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 20142014-06-02T22:33:51-04:00
We talk a lot about big data. It is important, but what about smart data? Adding more data isn’t the solution to all problems. Getting value from data comes down to how easily you can do something with it.
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Access Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Semantic Fingerprinting Web Service Extension for Data Harmony Version 3.9
By Melody Smith|June 2nd, 20142014-06-01T17:49:07-04:00
Access Innovations, Inc. announces the Semantic Fingerprinting Web service extension as part of their Data Harmony Version 3.9 release. Semantic Fingerprinting is a managed Web service offered to scholarly publishers to disambiguate author names and affiliations by leveraging semantic metadata within an existing publishing pipeline.
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NIOSH’s Office of Mine Safety and Health Research Implements Taxonomy-based Navigation
By Melody Smith|June 2nd, 20142014-06-01T17:44:20-04:00
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Office of Mine Safety and Health Research (OMSHR) has implemented a taxonomy-based navigation tool on their website -- called “Site Browser” -- that allows researchers and other users to browse content tagged with subject terms from their taxonomy.
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Information Architect Position Available
By Melody Smith|June 2nd, 20142014-06-01T17:41:01-04:00
We are always excited to share with our readers career opportunities in the world of taxonomy, metadata, and semantic technology. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are changing.
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May 2014
New Release Using Semantic Technology
By Melody Smith|May 30th, 20142014-05-29T22:36:08-04:00
Ontology Systems has announced the launch of Intelligent 360 for Network Operators (i360-NetOps). This new product helps organizations to carry out network troubleshooting, handle their change management and other service enhancing processes.
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Patent Addressing Metadata and Intelligence
By Melody Smith|May 29th, 20142014-05-29T00:26:39-04:00
NetScout Systems has been awarded a patent on its Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI) technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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