By Melody Smith|November 20th, 20132013-11-19T21:09:22-05:00
Concept Searching has entered into a partnership agreement with Enterprise Knowledge bring together Concept Searching’s technology expertise in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management, and Enterprise Knowledge’s experience providing strategic taxonomy design solutions that assist both commercial and federal organizations capture, manage, and maximize the value of content assets.
By Melody Smith|November 19th, 20132013-11-19T21:14:01-05:00
A dynamic document management program can reduce costs, improve findability, and make work flow seamless. Document management systems continue to evolve, and what was once seen as a luxury is now considered a requirement.
By Melody Smith|November 18th, 20132013-11-17T19:56:02-05:00
We taxonomists love lists. For us, they are raw materials, the stuff we love to get our hands on to start organizing. I recently came across a couple of lists with crossover appeal and relevance beyond simple conceptual organization. Both address why we do this stuff and how we help turn information into actionable knowledge.
By Melody Smith|November 18th, 20132013-11-17T19:52:51-05:00
The defining characteristic of taxonomies is the key to hierarchical relationships. It is vital to be sure this step is accurate and the relationships are true. Generic relationships, as explained in ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (page 47), identifies the link between a class and its members or species. The generic relationship is generally called the Broader term/Narrower term relationship. In most cases, it’s easy in traditional biological taxonomy of organisms, because of its well-established and well-known groupings of phyla, genera, families, species, and so forth, i.e., Rodents and NT Squirrels.
By Melody Smith|November 15th, 20132013-11-14T21:43:21-05:00
There are challenges to using metadata to leverage big data. There are limitations of analytics. With these obstacles, how does your organization stay agile?
By Melody Smith|November 14th, 20132013-11-13T20:54:10-05:00
Medical coding is changing. Coders who have been in the “biz” for years have faced a decision: either retire or learn the new coding classification system. The latter is a daunting task for most. However economy, job security, etc. make for strong motivators to learn a new system. Unfortunately, physicians have no such motive – or so they
By Melody Smith|November 13th, 20132013-11-12T20:41:09-05:00
This small town police records management crashing may not seem like breaking news, but if you were dependent on the information found in the records, you might think differently. Records management is a key part of any organization's information technology strategy, or should be.
By Melody Smith|November 13th, 20132013-11-12T21:38:46-05:00
Docstoc today launched a redesign of its website. Version 2.0 now includes semantic content discovery engine, topical pages, a rebuilt search engine, new profile pages, and file management.
By Melody Smith|November 12th, 20132013-11-11T18:52:54-05:00
Social media has impacted and assisted few areas of business like it has the restaurant business. Four Square, Yelp, Facebook check-ins, and many other online review platforms have made or broken many a food provider. Now there is a new online reputation management site that specializes in the hospitality industry as a whole, now including restaurants. TrustYou's 360-degree solution, which aggregates and analyzes online reviews and social media content for the culinary world, delivers semantic analysis to help drive revenue. This interesting information was found on Fast Casual in their article, "TrustYou.com expands into restaurant space."
By Melody Smith|November 12th, 20132013-11-11T18:52:08-05:00
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will soon publish its proposed 2014 GAAP Taxonomy as a preview of what they will require in the coming year for filing financial statements in XBRL. This information was found on Compliance Week in their article, “FASB Plans 2014 Taxonomy Release, Webcast to Explain.”
