Open and Social

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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Indexing History

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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A Brief History of Markup Languages

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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Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013!

Here is a sneak peek at two of the in-depth case studies you will hear about during the meeting:

Developing the PLOS Thesaurus: Jonas Dupuich of PLOS will tell the story of how PLOS identified the need to improve its thesaurus, completed the task of updating the thesaurus, and implemented services to leverage the thesaurus throughout the organization in partnership with Access Innovations. Expect to hear about lessons learned, best practices, and a glance at how PLOS is moving forward from here.

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Where Are You in the Plan?

With the deadline for the ICD-10 coding classification transition getting closer and closer, only 85% of healthcare professionals are evening acknowledging the scope of the project and less than that had even started the implementation process.

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Search and Semantics

Search engine optimization is a constant challenge for marketers, and that may have gotten easier or more difficult with semantic technology. The users can go either way on that one.

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