Taxonomy of What?
This interesting and somewhat alternative taxonomy fell on my radar today and I couldn’t resist. Humor me. It is Friday, after all.
Read MoreStandards for All Sizes
The American National Standards Institute’s Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) has announced the launch of a new database compiling information about nanotechnology-related standards and affiliated activities. This new database is part of a larger project by the ANSI-NSP to increase the visibility of existing and in-progress documents in relation to nanotechnology.
Read MoreHometown Memories Online
I was reading my hometown paper today online. I am from a small town in Seymour, Indiana. In fact, “the small town” referred to in John Mellencamp’s so-named 80’s hit. The leading story was about digitizing records to make search work faster and with more comprehensive results. These deja vu moments almost surprise me in a very pleasing sort of way. It is like the universe is saying, “you made the right choices.”
Read MoreNew Reporting System for Law Enforcement
The Hudson Police Department’s new online reporting system, Coplogic, will be launching next week. This comes after much delay from the original planned December launch, but is welcomed with great anticipation.
Read MoreAccess Integrity Announces Debut of ICD Tagger Technology
Medical billing and coding just got a whole lot easier and more efficient with the release of ICD Tagger by Albuquerque-based Access Integrity.
Read MoreSemantics Position in the Netherlands
Ever thought about living in the Netherlands? A land first discovered by Julius Caesar, though already inhabited – as was most “land discoveries.”
Read MoreGoogle’s Biggest Challenge
Vision is key to succeeding but difficult to obtain if you have been in the lead from the beginning. There is power in seeing the backs of your competitors. It drives you to compete and win. But always seeing the finish line with a clear view can be deceptive.
Read MoreRecognition for Semantic Contribution
Concept Searching has been awarded KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2013 status for its conceptClassifier for SharePoint. More than 700 offerings from some 300 vendors were assessed by the judging panel.
Read MoreSome Thoughts on Vocabulary Control
A large part of what we work on in taxonomy development is vocabulary control. Our classification of knowledge involves designing controlled vocabularies and getting them into a form that we can use many, many times. We also have to do some linguistic analysis of the data to make sure that our terms are working correctly.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Continues to Expand
Taiwan’s first natural semantic understanding technology enabling seamless dialogue between humans and speech recognition systems was recently released by the Industrial Technology Research Institute.
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