By Melody Smith|November 1st, 20132013-10-31T17:36:40-04:00
With Apple’s Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to dispute that the semantic web is no longer a pipe dream. Yet, there are those who are doing just that. This topic was inspired by an article on Wamda titled, “Links Are Not Answers: Cairo’s Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search.”
By Melody Smith|November 1st, 20132013-10-30T22:00:57-04:00
I have a confession to make. Your content writer is a spelling bee geek. When I was a child, my father would hold spelling bees with my sister and I, and well, I always won. Not to brag, but really to show the benefits of phonetics. My older sister did not go to kindergarten (I have no memory of why), but kindergarten is where phonetics were taught in the 60's. I was taught to sound the words out and that there, my friends, was my secret weapon.
By Melody Smith|November 1st, 20132013-10-30T21:59:14-04:00
Big data has been made a complex issue by attaching scientific and mathematical hassles to it, according to Tyler Bryson, General Manager – Marketing and Operations, Microsoft SMSG India. Organizations already have a lot of data that needs to be put in the right place to be analyzed in the right manner. Microsoft believes in using simple tools to make data useful and available to all.
By Melody Smith|October 31st, 20132013-10-29T21:12:16-04:00
User profiles play an important role in information retrieval systems. This "revelation" came from a software engineer study, but really, is it a big surprise?
By Melody Smith|October 31st, 20132013-10-29T21:10:58-04:00
Scope has developed a taxonomy for PracticeUpdate, an e-portal that offers an array of professional research, information and education resources. This project contracted by Elsevier Health Services with the key business objective being to support more personalization of the user experience for PracticeUpdate. The solution required the development of a taxonomy for a number of medical domains. The taxonomy is essential for optimal filtering of results for the target audience and refining search results.
By Melody Smith|October 31st, 20132013-10-30T21:58:22-04:00
ITAZ Technologies has partnered with Records and Archive Management Systems, to resell its product Globodox in Kenya. Globodox is an enterprise document management software application that simplifies the process of managing large volumes of data, and makes the process more efficient. Digital Journal brought this news to our attention in their article, “ITAZ Partners with Records and Archive Management Systems (RAMS) to Launch Document Management Software in Kenya.”
By Melody Smith|October 30th, 20132013-10-29T11:41:38-04:00
Infolinx System Solutions was chosen by the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) - Division of Child Support Enforcement (DCSE) for their Infolinx WEB Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) enterprise physical records management software. This office had been tracking their records via the use of a spreadsheet.
By Melody Smith|October 30th, 20132013-10-29T11:40:07-04:00
Employers are always searching for a network of talent to match to open positions. TalentCircles offers semantic technology that can identify and sort matching members with a percentage match for any job opening.
By Melody Smith|October 29th, 20132013-10-28T21:42:55-04:00
Metadata continues to get a bad rap for its participation in the NSA situation and other covert operations. We continue to try and lift up the benefits of metadata here, specifically how it acts as breadcrumbs to find your data fast and completely, when indexed against a strong, standards-based taxonomy. And we will continue to do so.
By Melody Smith|October 28th, 20132013-10-27T17:32:44-04:00
Terms in an equivalence relationship refer to the same concept (or sometimes a roughly equivalent concept). They are usually synonyms. As has already been discussed, there should be only one “indexing term” or preferred term in your thesaurus for any given concept. You can and should include synonyms of those preferred terms in your thesaurus as synonyms. And the way to do that is with equivalence relationships. The synonyms that aren’t “preferred terms” are “non-preferred terms” in the same term record. Your taxonomy software instructions will indicate how to add non-preferred terms to term records; this action will establish an equivalence relationship between the preferred term and each non-preferred term.
