February 2013

Facets and Search

By |February 18th, 2013

Most of you who have studied library science or information science are familiar with faceted classification as developed by Indian mathematician and librarian S. R. Ranganathan (1892-1972). His main contribution was the colon classification system the first faceted classification. It allowed multiple multiple classifications to be assigned to an object, rather than a single pre-coordinated taxonomic designation. Dr. Ranganathan is still pretty popular in the search world, especially in e-commerce. The Endeca faceted search module is popular with online marketers, because they are looking at lots of different kinds of ways to filter data.

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Help is Available

By |February 18th, 2013

Most healthcare organizations were pleased with the year delay for the ICD-10 implementation, but October 2014 is still coming fast. The transition efforts should not be relaxed.

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New Semantic Social Application

By |February 18th, 2013

Gravity has built a semantic analysis engine intended to gauge a site visitor's interest by looking beyond just the articles they read, and into their behavior. This technology has attracted various funders, so apparently someone thinks there is a future for Gravity.

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Internal Search Should Not Be Overlooked

By |February 15th, 2013

Search and search strategy are common topics across the world of technology, retail, and the Internet. But what about on your own intranet? Much is said and written about search optimization for the external sites, but ensuring that your own staff can find information to serve your customers is just as important.

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Don’t Lower Your Standards

By |February 14th, 2013

Pingar recently introduced its beta Taxonomy Generator Service, which will enable enterprises to generate instant taxonomies from an analysis of the content on large internal document sets.

The Taxonomy of Love

By |February 14th, 2013

Because it is the famously sweet Hallmark holiday and I am feeling a bit silly, I went on search for a Taxonomy of Love. What better day than Valentine's Day than to dissect and tear apart what others see as mystical and ethereal?

Making a Path in the Data

By |February 14th, 2013

Enterprise metadata can be messy, and many organizations choose to ignore it - sort of a Scarlett O'Hara mentality of “I'll deal with it tomorrow.” The real angst stems from having no metaprocess information or higher level process descriptions.

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Standards are Needed

By |February 13th, 2013

MedTouch has launched two strategic websites: washington.providence.org and montana.providence.org. Both websites are powered by the MedTouch Healthcare Accelerator Package for Sitecore.

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Indexing Hullabaloo

By |February 13th, 2013

If indexing is an art to you, then this event will be right up your alley. "The Art and Craft of Indexing" is the theme at the American Society for Indexing's annual conference in San Antonio, TX on April 17-20, 2013.