July 2012

Accessing Your Data

By |July 31st, 2012

The latest version of ColumbiaSoft’s Document Locator (DL) software includes preview and document profiling technology. Users will be able to access information and analyze it with greater speed than before.

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Sports & Taxonomies: More Related Than You May Think

By |July 30th, 2012

Earlier this year, you may recall, we demonstrated the far-reaching and all-encompassing nature of taxonomies when we highlighted the taxonomical approach sportswriters apply to making preseason baseball predictions in Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball. With the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympic Games, we could not pass up the opportunity to once again share some insights into two of our favorite things—sports and taxonomies!

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Social Metrics

By |July 30th, 2012

Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the social web for analyzing and informing scholarship. This interesting topic was inspired by the latest post on David Warlock's blog titled, "The Science of Measurement." As he pondered the importance of measuring in science and data, the topic of altmetrics naturally evolved.

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The Importance of Coding Standards

By |July 27th, 2012

There are many arm chair experts who have ideas about how to make future national standards upgrades and conversions—such as the upcoming adoption of the national plan identifier and the conversion to ICD-10—go more smoothly for healthcare organizations.

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SharePoint Support by MetaVis Announced

By |July 27th, 2012

MetaVis Technologies has announced full support for SharePoint 2013 by providing tools for SharePoint migration and administration.

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Big Data Providing Great Opportunity from Healthcare

By |July 26th, 2012

As big data continues to dominate the technology topics, healthcare is quickly becoming the arena. Leaders in healthcare organizations understand that data analysis can change how they operate. Maybe this was driven by the ICD-10 coding classification transition that has been a huge concern for the past year and will continue to be until the deadline of October 2013 arrives.

Grant Enables Ontology Based Database

By |July 26th, 2012

Miller School researchers have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a novel database to enable neuroscientists to search the voluminous number of studies related to nervous system repair, and link relevant data from those studies to other resources.

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Semantic Technology Used in Police Data Search

By |July 25th, 2012

New Zealand Police have embraced semantic search technology in their three 24x7 contact centers. The search engine technology was developed locally by Wellington-based software company Syl Semantics.

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General Approaches to Creating a Taxonomy

By |July 23rd, 2012

There are several ways to create a taxonomy. One is from the existing data, which is my preferred method. You can also do it as an intellectual outline of the discipline, thinking about what ought to be included in this discipline. That is what the monks did many years ago in their cold towers on those mountainsides. Few of us have that luxury. Most of us will be dealing with a specific corpus of information.

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