October 2011

Alfresco Includes Social Media in Their Latest Release

By |October 14th, 2011

Alfresco has released their latest community version of their platform at JaveOne, Alfresco Community 4, with many new features. Among those features are an improved user interface and tooling to allow support of popular technology trends, such as cloud computing and social media.

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New Patent for Indexing System

By |October 13th, 2011

Decernis receives new patent for an indexing system and method to identify and validate chemicals, foods, and commodities in documents and databases. This innovation enables a user to find any reference to a food, chemical, or contaminant in any language across the Internet.

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Taxonomy Made it to the Big Time

By |October 13th, 2011

Okay, I’ll be the first to admit this particular post is not about hard core business in the world of machine assisted indexing, ontology development or taxonomies. But it is related, somewhat… I just read that a new movie is being made is titled “A Taxonomy of Barnacles.” This interesting information was found on Alt Film Guide.

New Guide Recommends Taxonomy

By |October 12th, 2011

European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has launched a guide that classifies Public and Private Partnerships (PPP) into prevention focused, response focused and umbrella PPPs. The 36 recommendations for resilient IT security outlines the need for a common understanding of what constitutes a PPP.

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EBSCO Acquires Vast Database

By |October 12th, 2011

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has acquired the database, Ergonomics Abstracts™. The database focuses on ergonomics and human factors and provides indexing for eBooks, journal articles and reference works in a variety of fields that will be of value to academic libraries and research institutes.

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Intelligence Data Equals Big Data

By |October 12th, 2011

Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS) has opened a new office in Rome, New York to better meet the growing needs of its main customer in the area, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

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The Y2K of Healthcare

By |October 11th, 2011

Many healthcare professionals are in scrambling mode to beat the October 2013 deadline to move from ICD-9 to ICD-10 medical coding system. This has an upside for the economy. Anthelio, a healthcare technology company based in Dallas, plans to hire 200 people in Michigan, mostly medical insurance billers and coders. If there is a state that needs an economical boost, Michigan would fit that bill.

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Proper Findability

By |October 11th, 2011

Copies of articles can now be accessed quickly and cheaply using the IEEE Computer Society’s Instant Conference Download (ICD) service. ICD provides contributing authors with an alternative to buying print copies of the entire proceedings, which can take up to six weeks to order and receive.

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Loosening the Social Media Reigns

By |October 11th, 2011

The digital workplace has presented some tough challenges. There isn’t a Human Resource department anywhere that hasn’t faced the IT challenge of engaging employees, maintaining productivity and still have a foot hold in the social media world – all at the same time.

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