Technology in the Education Sector
Many educational institutions are looking for technology to beef up their resume for potential students, i.e. potential tuition dollars.
Read MoreTechnology Group Wins Big with eHealth Project
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
Read MoreSOURCECORP Signs on for Document Management
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.
Read MoreProposal for an Open Data City
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.
Read MorePublishing Metadata Merges
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).
Read MoreHow Useful Are Taxonomies in Search?
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.
Read MoreThesaurus from – and for – the Farm
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.
Read MoreUsing Subject Matter Experts
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.
Read MoreAre Facebook and Pavlov In Cahoots?
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.
Read MoreUS Census Bureau Using Endeca Technology
Endeca Technologies has launched the US Census Bureau’s new American FactFinder application built on Endeca Latitude. American FactFinder makes more than 250 billion decennial census facts available and navigable to the average American, civil servants and skilled statisticians alike.
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