What Trails To Leave Behind
Debating the approach of spreading documents over varioius document libraries versus focusing on one singular library, this author lifts up a pros and cons list that could bring some insight to your work.
April 2013
Preparing for the Leap
By Melody Smith|April 2nd, 20132013-04-01T23:33:15-04:00
With the preparation for the transition to ICD-10, there is a new interest in population management. This most likely comes from the concerns around financial reimbursement after the implementation in October 2014. There will be five times the number of codes after the implementation of the ICD-10 coding classification. This will allow for greater specificity, but there will be a huge learning curve.
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Metadata and Open Standards
By Melody Smith|April 2nd, 20132013-04-01T23:31:03-04:00
Colectica has announced that Statistics Denmark is adopting Colectica metadata software to support managing and describing their data all using open standards.
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Document Capture Aids Findability
By Melody Smith|April 2nd, 20132013-04-01T23:29:24-04:00
Labeled a trendsetting product for 2012, AnyDocCAPTUREit allows you to scan documents locally or from remote locations. Users can then securely transmit images over the Internet for centralized processing.
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Introducing Exo Sanitations’ Really Really Advanced Search
By Melody Smith|April 1st, 20132013-04-01T10:46:07-04:00
Sometimes Advanced Search just isn’t enough. On this date last year, you may recall, Google unveiled a Really Advanced Search, with more than a dozen different option fields that included searching rhyming slang, embarrassing grammatical faux pas, font, content that is true, and “this exact word or phrase, whose sum of unicode points is a mersenne prime.”
Exo Sanitations Announces Universal Thesaurus
By Melody Smith|April 1st, 20132013-04-01T10:46:42-04:00
Exo Sanitations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is pleased to announce the release of its new Universal Thesaurus. Designed by world-class taxonomists at Exo Sanitations, the Universal Thesaurus is designed to be compact, broad, and inclusive. While the taxonomy is relatively small in size, the terms in this newly deployed controlled vocabulary are general enough to suit all types of documents, datasets, and industries.
Failure Leads to Breakthrough in Knowledge Management
By Melody Smith|April 1st, 20132013-04-01T10:47:07-04:00
Things move very quickly in technology and computing these days. The overwhelming amount of information that is now available is incomprehensible, and it’s certainly a quagmire that is building faster than there are the tools to manage. At least that was the case.
March 2013
Ontologies in Italy
By Melody Smith|March 29th, 20132013-03-28T22:48:07-04:00
Need a reason to go to Italy? Okay, need a good reason? The Second International Workshop on Ontologies meet Advanced Information Systems (OAIS) will be held September 1-4, 2013 in Genoa, Italy.
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Commonality Fosters Consistency
By Melody Smith|March 29th, 20132013-03-28T22:44:32-04:00
A business glossary is a software application used to communicate and govern the organization’s business concepts and terminology, along with the associated definitions and relationships between those terms. A core objective of a business glossary is to minimize the confusion of business terminology and communications.
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What Men and Women Want Most
By Melody Smith|March 28th, 20132013-03-27T23:05:14-04:00
Siri is fun to play with - ask her what the meaning of life is sometime - but I am still not sure she offers real, usable information that a quick internet search wouldn't give me, and I wouldn't have to repeat three times. However, people like Tim Berners-Lee dream of a time when you could ask inocuious questions like where to take your spouse for dinner and receive a response based on natural language processing and what I call insight. Insight into the food preferences of both you and your spouse, restaurants nearby and their table availability. The latter two are not as difficult, but insight would be an achievement that most men would like to possess on their own.
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