Digitizing Project Creating a Buzz
The Florida International University library has acquired the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza collection and is in the process of digitizing the collection to be made available through the library’s website.
Read MoreThoughts on ORCID
A new and powerful tool is headed our way. I believe it has the potential to change the way we interact with researchers, contributors and authors in general.
I have already reported on the Contributor ID meeting in Boston mid-May. One of the main reasons for the timing of that meeting was the ORCID Outreach meeting to be held at the Microsoft office next to MIT in Cambridge. The aim of ORCID is to “solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents.”
Read MoreKnowledge Management In Education
The Department for Education began a process towards knowledge management several years ago. An information audit led to a revamp of systems and approaches towards information. It responded with a knowledge management strategy including the Information Workplace Platform (IWP), which provides integrated information, collaboration and business services to thousands of employees. This interesting news was…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence Not Quite There Yet
Technology continues to amaze us. Remember when a fax machine impressed us? Now they are teaching computers to analyze and understand the real world, or at least they are trying.
Read MoreThe Implementation Costs Continue
The Center for Health and Human Services recently announced the new deadline for the ICD-10 coding classification transition was being postponed to October 1, 2014. Healthcare providers are struggling to meet the requirements without breaking the bank. It is easy to see the dollars and more dollars and more dollars being spent (sorry I derailed), but the return on investment is much more ambiguous.
Read MoreCompatibility Can Assist in Finding Your Data
Drupal combines their business workflow tools seamlessly with a suite of core modules like of, such as taxonomy and roles. Their tutorial helps users learn how to create a corporate collaborative authoring system without having to resort to writing PHP code.
Read MoreHas Semantic Search Changed the Price of Search?
History has tried to tell us that paying for search rankings is a very bad thing. However, it is interesting that Google has begun to accept payments for inclusion in some of its newest search products. This was evident recently with its Google Hotel Finder and Google Flight Search, where Google looks to be taking some kind of payment in order to be included in the results. This is also evident with Google Advisor, which offers links to financial services and products.
Read MoreICD Who?
So what is this thing called ICD-10 and why is it impacting so many people? ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014. At least that is the current deadline. There have many been key players in this arena speak out against a different, usually farther out, deadline. The current and soon-to-be outdated ICD-9 disease coding system is made up of only 1/5 the number of disease codes the new ICD-10 contains. This huge change will impact many avenues of the healthcare system.
Read MoreRiak Handbook Available, Again
Basho Technologies has made available the second edition of Riak Handbook. This version includes more than 43 pages of new content covering many of the latest feature enhancements to the open-source database, Riak.
Read MoreDoes the Semantic Web Exist?
With Apple’s Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to argue that the semantic web is any longer a pipe dream. Yet, there are those that are doing just that.
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