Anticipation Surrounds WordPress 3.1 Impending Release
With the impending WordPress version 3.1 release, anticipation and hype continue to grow within the community and networks. This popular brand continues to grow excitement and we wondered why.
February 2011
Technology in the Education Sector
By Melody Smith|February 3rd, 20112011-02-03T12:00:05-05:00
Many educational institutions are looking for technology to beef up their resume for potential students, i.e. potential tuition dollars.
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Technology Group Wins Big with eHealth Project
By Melody Smith|February 3rd, 20112011-02-03T11:58:18-05:00
With Singapore’s new emphasis on e-health, technology companies are reaping the rewards. Orion, Accenture and partners IBM, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard won a $146 million contract to deliver Singapore's national e-health records (NEHR) project
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SOURCECORP Signs on for Document Management
By Melody Smith|February 2nd, 20112011-02-03T11:56:00-05:00
SOURCECORP has been selected by Health Net Federal Services, LLC to deliver outsourced document management services. Health Net Federal Services is part of the Government Contracts segment of Health Net, Inc.
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Proposal for an Open Data City
By Melody Smith|February 2nd, 20112011-02-02T12:24:02-05:00
Journalism made an unusual appearance at the TEDxBrighton event recently. In an arena where technology, entertainment, and design are the focus (and part of the acronym), Greg Hadfield, former journalist, currently director of strategic projects at Cogapp proposed making Brighton and Hove into an "open-data city" to rival San Francisco, Washington or New York.
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Publishing Metadata Merges
By Melody Smith|February 2nd, 20112011-02-03T11:54:15-05:00
EBSCO Publishing and Mergent, Inc. are playing well together by allowing metadata from Mergent’s Annual reports Database to be added to the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS).
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How Useful Are Taxonomies in Search?
By Melody Smith|February 1st, 20112011-02-01T12:04:52-05:00
Recall, precision and relevance are factors that figure heavily in search, yet they are often missing from taxonomies. In the second of a four-part webinar series co-hosted by Access Innovations and the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Margie Hlava will explore how search can potentially be improved by applying subject metadata and how taxonomies can be used on the front-end or attached to records at the time they are created and loaded.
Thesaurus from – and for – the Farm
By Melody Smith|February 1st, 20112011-02-01T11:41:06-05:00
The USDA has announced release of the 2011 edition of the on-line NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (NALT). This release adds 3,441 new terms and 321 definitions to these vocabulary tools.
January 2011
Using Subject Matter Experts
By Melody Smith|January 31st, 20112011-02-01T11:57:01-05:00
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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Are Facebook and Pavlov In Cahoots?
By Melody Smith|January 31st, 20112011-01-28T11:27:30-05:00
Social networking and the infamous “like” button has trained at least one writer much like Pavlov’s dog and the bell. This conditioned reflex actually does more than give a sense of personalization. It provides data.
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