March 2011

Using Semantic Technology in Healthcare Portals

By |March 17th, 2011

We all know the ultimate goal in any document management system is to for our data to be findable. Without that, the rest is a waste of time. If there is any field or genre that this has never been more important, it is healthcare.

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Equal Opportunity for All Users

By |March 17th, 2011

Enterprise content management (ECM) has progressed from simple, stand-alone file management and imaging systems, to today's complex, multi-technology ECM platforms. But along the way, have they made a division between small to medium businesses and large enterprises in the features that are available and applicable?

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The Future Is Upon Us

By |March 16th, 2011

Remember The Jetson’s on Saturday morning? It was cool to watch Jane order dinner from the push-button space age conveniences and see their leisurely daily life assisted by numerous labor-saving devices. Has semantic technology brought us to the point that our smallest desires can be anticipated by inanimate objects?

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Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval

By |March 16th, 2011

The Third International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval will take place September 12-14, 2011 in Bertinoro, Italy.

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Media World Embraces Semantics

By |March 15th, 2011

Semantics is playing an increasingly important role in the development of knowledge management tools across a variety of industries, but some of the most interesting developments are coming from the media world.

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It’s Good to Have Friends

By |March 15th, 2011

The Taxonomy Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) wants you to recruit your friends for membership. This is one of those times that you benefit from having so many friends because the division member with the most recruits wins prizes!

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Taxonomies in Book Store Organizations

By |March 14th, 2011

There are many approaches to the building of a thesaurus and taxonomy. No absolutely right or absolutely wrong methods exist but there are some that are not as efficient as others. Some which lead to bias in the resulting work. Some which will not work with the data the client actually wants to surface on a website or data mine or tag. There are some very expensive approaches and some very practical approaches to doing the work.

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