By Melody Smith|September 6th, 20112011-09-05T19:49:56-04:00
Editing by committee is a prolonged, mostly painful, process that quite often sends me running away seeking refuge among my own office and my own delete key. Crowdsourcing can be very similar. One approach that can help is to have a taxonomy built with categories and terms that apply to the entire industry.
By Melody Smith|September 5th, 20112011-09-04T14:22:36-04:00
Shelf Awareness is a Web-based resource for readers and those in the book trade. It was brought my attention by Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness’s book review editor. (Full disclosure, Marilyn is my cousin.) I bring this wonderful resource to your attention for a variety of reasons not the least of which is their free email newsletter service for readers and one for professionals in the book trade. Twice a week I get an email containing reviews of a wide variety of new, recent, and sometimes classic, fiction and nonfiction works.
By Melody Smith|September 5th, 20112011-09-04T16:53:26-04:00
Many are concerned about the cost of healthcare, patients and hospitals alike. Cuts in Medicare funding, increases in insurance premiums, and new federal requirements […]
By Melody Smith|September 5th, 20112011-09-04T16:54:45-04:00
UBM TechInsights has released the next generation of PatentVista, a patent portfolio management software. PatentVista provides an intuitive interface designed to help licensing teams make better decisions. The taxonomy tool enables organizations to leverage their internal expertise to organize, rate, review and search their patents.
By Melody Smith|September 2nd, 20112011-08-31T16:11:51-04:00
IT management and healthcare professionals across the country are ramping up projects to create their ICD-10 plan as the December 13, 2013 deadline date nears. Everyone is facing common challenges of budget, bandwidth, staffing, training and of course, technical issues.
By Melody Smith|September 2nd, 20112011-08-31T18:37:25-04:00
ARINC Engineering Services, LLC sent three recognized experts in U.S. Department of Defense supply chain management to provide instruction and chair several sessions at the 2011 DMSMS & Standardization Conference this week.
By Melody Smith|September 2nd, 20112011-08-31T18:35:36-04:00
PowerSearch Software has released version 3.0 of their search technology product. New features include an increased reach by determining relevance for documents.
By Melody Smith|September 1st, 20112011-08-31T18:34:21-04:00
With the volume of data doubling every four to six months, findability within that data has never been more important. Many are looking to indexing as the solution to this problem.
By Melody Smith|September 1st, 20112011-08-31T18:32:25-04:00
XenData will soon be unveiling a new interface at IBC 2011 that integrates the range of XenData archive server solutions with Harmonics Media Application Server and ProXplore, seamlessly.
By Melody Smith|September 1st, 20112011-08-31T18:29:18-04:00
There has been lots of talk lately about big data and how we will handle it, as though it was a new problem. Given, data is being produced faster than ever before in history. However, in the retail world, transaction analysis and POS data is not new. The word we are looking for is diverse. It isn’t just numeric data anymore; it is text based and image based.
