By Melody Smith|May 20th, 20132013-05-19T22:38:45-04:00
Andrew Lacy, one of the co-founders of the mobile game Tapulous, has moved into a new market with ZapTravel, a semantic travel search engine. The premise is to take away the data entry approach and use a more texting approach, i.e., “I want to go to Paris.”
By Melody Smith|May 16th, 20132013-05-15T23:26:03-04:00
With the preparations amplifying for the ICD-10 coding classification transition, the demand for trained medical coders is expected to increase. It is reported that many current medical coders are planning on retirement before the switch, leaving an even lesser amount to be trained.
By Melody Smith|May 15th, 20132013-05-14T23:26:02-04:00
Once again my search for the odd and illusive taxonomies have resulted in a treasure. "Taxonomy of trash" was brought to us by Philly.com and it didn't fail to entertain and intrigue me.
By Melody Smith|May 15th, 20132013-05-27T13:28:53-04:00
Ontology Systems is a finalist in the Big Data and Analytics category for the Pipeline COMENT Innovation Awards 2013.
By Melody Smith|May 15th, 20132013-05-14T23:23:27-04:00
The Disaster 2.0 team recently hosted the second Masterclass at the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium to discuss the role of social media and web technologies in providing information during disasters. Disaster 2.0 is a two-year project exploring how EU governments currently and can potentially use web 2.0 applications and semantic technologies in disaster response.
By Melody Smith|May 14th, 20132013-05-13T21:43:38-04:00
Trying to improve public access to government documents, the Justice Department is now using metadata in its effort to adhere to the Freedom of Information Act. Citizens will now be able to find information with a simple search on sites like www.foia.gov.
By Melody Smith|May 13th, 20132013-05-12T17:35:02-04:00
Triumph Learning LLC, a New York-based print and digital educational content company, has partnered with Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in taxonomy development, to create a new, state-of-the-art taxonomy designed to precisely align standards-based instructional content for all grades in the K– 12 education market.
By Melody Smith|May 9th, 20132013-05-08T23:42:22-04:00
Organizations are facing the constant challenge of handling big data by looking beyond storage. They are seeking to understand how to analyze large data sets to consider the tags or labels that give the data context over time.
By Melody Smith|May 9th, 20132013-05-08T22:04:27-04:00
As the semantic web continues to develop and grow, it increases the potential to test and challenge the technical and human resources currently supporting it. So the idea of a conference focused specifically on crowdsourcing the semantic web, seems appropriate.
By Melody Smith|May 8th, 20132013-05-07T23:12:29-04:00
Colectica has been selected to give several presentations at the upcoming International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) conference in Cologne, Germany later this month.
