Publishing Metadata Becomes More Valuable
Bowker has been selected by book retailer Books-A-Million to supply metadata related to the print, e- and audio books. Bowker metadata will be used to feed both internal and external systems supporting the firm’s purchasing needs and providing bibliographic and identifier information in stores and on the website.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3
This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started talking about search software and today we will continue with that topic. I believe in the data first as you know. Staring in the diagram with your Source Data you can see how the data flows. You need to clean the source data to a uniform format. This is often called the conversion process or the ETL – Extract Transform and Load.
Read MoreUnderstanding Linked Data
Sometimes when you work in an industry or are affiliated with it, you start throwing around terminology and acronyms that not everyone may completely understand. I hope we don’t practice this behavior here at TaxoDiary on a regular basis, but I fear it may have happened on occasion.
Read MoreIndustry Meeting on Search in Nice
There is a meeting coming up soon in Nice that might be worth your consideration. Granted, any meeting in Nice would be worth my consideration, but this one offers more than a great location. This is an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus of this meeting is on tools for intelligence and the meeting examines the requirements of specialists in scientific and technical information
Read MoreMaking the Step to Auto-Classification
Many turn to auto-classification systems to find some level of consistency and scalability, especially when (and this is very common) there are more than one indexer tagging content. There seems to be a feeling that moving to auto-classification systems requires a sacrifice of rich and quality indexing.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Enhancing Discovery Process
A new version of eView has been released by Integreon that features adaptive coding technology to automate categorization, prioritization, and batch coding during the e-discovery review process. KM World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Integreon presents eView 4.0.” Their approach involves machine learning techniques and analysis consultation, providing a cost-effective solution for…
Read MoreTechnology vs. Humans
Many articles have been written about the progress or avalanche (depending on your perspective) of technology and the resulting amount of data that has occurred from that growth. With the move into the clouds, the borders or walls have been removed on the boundaries of data created and accessed. From social media to medical applications, metadata is growing by astronomical numbers. So what new markets or new products are to come to handle this data volume?
Read MoreAMA Seeking to Stop ICD-10 Transition
The American Medical Association is appealing to Speaker of the House John Boehner to halt the ICD-10 coding classification transition. Many are questioning whether this is a political decision and should be drug into the boxing ring of the government. With a compliance deadline of October 2013, it seems a little late to stop that particular train.
Read MoreSiri Has Competition
The recently made popular personal assistant from iPhone, Siri, is quickly gaining competition in the mobile phone market. Meet Evi. Created by True Knowledge, Evi can also answer questions based on voice and in a conversational manner. However, one of the differences between Evi and Siri, is Evi is an application available on phones and Android software.
Read MoreICD-10 Transition Raises Concern
MedAptus’s Professional Intelligent Charge Capture solution was named the Mobile Data Systems Category Leader by KLAS. This twice awarded honor was based on positive customer feedback in areas such as product quality, implementation and support.
Read More