Access Innovations to Overhaul Metropolitan Opera Archive Database

Access Innovations is pleased to announce an engagement with the Metropolitan Opera to redesign the database for the Opera’s archive. The Metropolitan Opera Archive provides public access to records of every performance by the venerable company including operas, performers, roles, and reviews; it also contains links to other media such as historic photographs and playbills.…

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Book Signing at SLA 2016

There are many activities taking place at this year’s Special Libraries Association (SLA) annual conference that is being held June 12-14, 2016 in Philadelphia. Besides keynote speakers, workshops and networking opportunities, there will also be book signings. Featured this year is our own Marjorie (Margie) M.K. Hlava and her book, The Taxobook: History, Theories, and Concepts…

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Organizing Knowledge

Humans classify and categorize everything from types of writing instruments to breeds of animals. Marjorie Hlava in her Taxobook states “you could even say that taxonomies and thesauri exist to further the objective of organizing knowledge.” It seems it is in our nature as humans to try and classify things. One example of human classification…

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The Taxonomy Cafe

In order to continue preparing Special Libraries Association (SLA) taxonomists for more advanced implementations, we have asked a number of people to share their real-life experiences with us in an interactive presentation and discussion format. In the first section of this course, each presenter will give a 30-minute case study of a taxonomy implementation. They…

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Go Baby Go!

The Kentucky Derby may be the most widely anticipated and discussed two-minute sports event of the year. For folks outside the 30-mile radius of Louisville, Kentucky, it is just a horse race. For folks inside that radius, “derby” is a culture, one of big hats, bow ties, and bourbon. As an aside, let me say…

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Speed Dating – Taxonomy Style

So, you’re shopping for a taxonomy management system? You want to get some feedback from real customers. You want to know what systems they have implemented, what kind of features and options they needed, and what kind of customer experience they had. This is exactly what the morning panel of the Taxonomy Café CE course…

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IntegraCoder, Powered by Data Harmony, Now Fully Integrated in the athenahealth EHR

Access Innovations, under subsidiary Access Integrity, and Find-A-Code are pleased to announce that IntegraCoder, their combined medical record analysis system, is now fully integrated within athenahealth, one of the nation’s largest electronic health record (EHR) management companies. Providers using IntegraCoder in the athenahealth EHR system will now have access to the 3rd party medical coding…

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Creating an Ontology to Track Garbage in Space

Space isn’t normally the place where you think to clean up your litter. A vast, open environment, uninhabitable by man and covering an unimaginable amount of area, outer space appears to be the one place where rubbish tends to be unimportant. Recent reports have surfaced detailing the importance of tracking space debris in order to…

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