Open Source Giant Celebrates Anniversary
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Apache Lucene. First developed in 1997, the Lucene information retrieval software entered the ASF as a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta project in 2001, and soon became a standalone, Top-Level Project (TLP) in 2005.
Read MoreOracle Takes To the Clouds
Oracle has announced a new public cloud service that includes business applications, database software and a Java development platform. The applications are customer relationship management (CRM) and human capital management (HCM) and are based on Oracle’s Fusion application range – and an internal social networking system.
Read MoreSemantic Search Powers Robot
The clip of the robot serving food seemed to appear on every site I visited today. I guess our fascination of life as The Jetson’s has not diminished with our youth. Robotic technology continues to advance and the PR2 robot is a good example. Not only is it smart enough to be able to fetch food from the fridge, but with the little help of a technology known as semantic search, it is even clever enough to bring you a sandwich, despite not knowing where or exactly what it is.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Used in Epidemiologic Study
The Millennium Cohort Study is a longitudinal cohort study designed in the late 1990s to evaluate how military service may affect long-term health. To perform these analyses, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was applied to a broad open-ended question asking the participant if there were any additional health concerns.
Read MoreGo With the ICD 10 Flow
During the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Salt Lake City this week, a World Health Organization (WHO) official urged health care organizations to move forward with the transition to ICD-10 code sets.
Read MoreMetalogix Meets the Need for Speed
Metalogix Software released Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 as a solution to the ever-increasing growth of SharePoint farms, a situation that has only been around since the launch of SharePoint 2010.
Read MoreAlfresco Releases New Platform
Open source content management provider Alfresco has released their platform, Alfresco Community 4, at JavaOne.
Read MoreSharePoint Architecture Webinar
Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the Why Information Architecture on SharePoint webinar will be held Wednesday, October 12th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).
Read MoreA Taxonomy of Food
Can you imagine what a flavor looks like? Can you visualize or describe what an apple tastes like? Data visualists David McCandless and Willow Tyrer have explored 1,000 recipes from BBC Food and Epicurious to visualize flavor patterns. The result is a series of visualization of complimentary flavors or infoodgraphics.
Read MoreNew Document Management Resource
Iron Mountain has opened a document scanning and indexing center to help organizations across Europe make the most of their information within stringent national and EU regulation. The center uses the latest technology to provide a suite of document management services for organizations of all sizes and from all sectors.
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