December 2012

Social Connections

By |December 11th, 2012

With the increase in social media applications and the use of those applications, there are always new and varied ways to monitor customer sentiment. The basic technology employed for sentiment analysis includes natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics. Identifying and extracting subjective information from a variety of sources (such as web pages, online news, internet discussion groups, and social media) can produce interesting and useful data.

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Coding Requires Training

By |December 11th, 2012

The impending ICD-10 coding classification transition is affecting all healthcare providers, but physicians are experiencing concerns that are more personal. Even though the delay was postponed until October 2014, physicians are concerned about the financial impact this new billing code system will have on their cash flow and reimbursements.

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A Look at Markup Languages

By |December 10th, 2012

The most frequently used markup languages these days are those of the SGML family: SGML, HTML, and XML. Information professionals are likely to encounter all three fairly often.

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SharePoint and Search

By |December 10th, 2012

Concept Searching recently announced that its core products – conceptSearch and conceptClassifier – are prepared for SharePoint 2013.

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Open and Social

By |December 7th, 2012

LinkedIn has open sourced all the software that it had acquired in the acquisition of the search engine software maker IndexTank. Now LinkedIn has joined the elite few of social media platforms that have already made their internal codes available to the open source developer community.

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‘Twas the night before Boot Camp

By |December 6th, 2012

‘Twas the night before Boot Camp And I thought I should know Pecha Kucha – what is it? Which way to go?

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Indexing History

By |December 6th, 2012

One county historical society is indexing images of civil and criminal offenses of the late 1800s to make the archives available to the public. All indexing has been done by hand and by volunteers. To date, nearly 1000 court cases from that era have been scanned and indexed.

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Access Innovations named to EContent magazine’s annual 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry

By |December 4th, 2012

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is proud to announce its inclusion on EContent magazine’s annual list of the top 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.

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Seeking Security

By |December 4th, 2012

Nextier Networks announced that Powerbloc Generation Sdn Bhd has been appointed as the authorized distributor of their data leak prevention (DLP) solution for Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

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A Brief History of Markup Languages

By |December 3rd, 2012

Let’s look at the history of the MLs a little bit. Those are the markup languages for computer text processing. Markup languages started appearing in the 1960s. At that time, if you were a publisher, you would have your pages typeset by a professional typesetter or a typesetting company. The typesetters used to encode your data so that you couldn’t see the results until they generated the pages. The problem was that once a publisher had a large corpus of their publications set with a typesetter, they were handcuffed. They couldn’t leave very easily. Their data was so tied up with some particular typesetting system, the Penta system or whatever they were involved with. They couldn’t migrate. They couldn’t move. So, they were kind of imprisoned. The price kept going up every year because, well, “Where are you going to go? Hah!” It was very frustrating.

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