Posts Tagged ‘Access Insights’
Choosing Broader and Narrower Terms
Photo by Fanghong, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian-Matroshka.jpg / CC BY-SA 3.0 As most readers of this blog know, taxonomies are controlled vocabularies in which the terms are arranged hierarchically. Terms representing the broadest concepts are at the top level, and terms representing more specific concepts within those concepts are placed at a deeper level. The result is a…
Read MoreData Harmony® v.3.10 Named 2015 Trend Setting Product by KMWorld
Access Innovations, Inc., the industry leader in data organization and innovators of the Data Harmony® software suite, is pleased to announce that KMWorld has named Data Harmony Version 3.10 on their list of Trend Setting Products for 2015. “It is vital to stay at the forefront of knowledge management and, with Data Harmony v.3.10, we…
Read MoreChoosing Related Terms
Source: Dreamstime Which quiche? You’ll have to read to the end to find out. As many of our readers are aware, hierarchical thesauri are distinguished from other taxonomies by (among other things) the inclusion of non-hierarchical relationships among terms. One main type of non-hierarchical relationship is the equivalence relationship, which is usually expressed as a…
Read MoreLet’s Talk Semantics
The rapid growth of digital information has been discussed here many times. It has spawned many interesting and creative approaches to information analyzing, indexing, retrieval, and findability. Access Innovations has been acutely aware of the needs for quite some time and works to provide comprehensive solutions for its clients. This interesting topic came from Research Information in their…
Read MoreClassifying Exoplanets: Where does Earth 2.0 fall?
On the 9th of January, 1992, astronomers around the world rejoiced. For the first time ever, they had definitive proof of a planet orbiting another star. These early observations were extremely limited, mainly focused on noticing the wobble of the parent star, but they opened the proverbial floodgate for exoplanet discovery. A little over two…
Read MoreRegistration Now Open for the 12th Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting
Registration is now open for the twelfth annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled for February 9-10, 2016 at the Access Innovations, Inc. offices located at 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Access Innovations, the company behind the Data Harmony product line, hosts the annual meeting. Case studies presented by Data…
Read MoreEverything Goes Every Place It Fits
The traditional taxonomy is monohierarchical – there is one and only one place for every term. This is only sensible for many purposes; no one wants to look up a book in a library catalog only to find out that it is either in Section A or Section F, and no biologist would ever identify…
Read MoreThe Thesaurus as a Domain Model in the Modern World
Source: Dreamstime Nowadays, taxonomies and thesauri are used largely for web navigation and for information search and retrieval. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, it’s largely the digital information revolution that has made their use for information search and retrieval a vital necessity in research, business, and numerous other types of activities. Taxonomies and…
Read MoreIntegraCoder® Version 2.0, Powered by Data Harmony®, Now Available Through Major EMR companies
IntegraCoder Version 2.0, the medical coding application developed by Access Integrity, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., and coding experts Find-A-Code, is now available as a component in the offerings of some of the nation’s largest electronic medical record (EMR) companies. Medical providers will now have access to the latest version of this application based…
Read MoreSmart Thesauri: Using Taxonomies with Linked Data
Note: A full version of this article is scheduled to be published in an upcoming issue of the IKO eNewsletter. As interest in Linked Data (LD) continues to grow, many organizations—publishers, corporations, universities, libraries—are increasingly interested in strategies to jump-start LD initiatives. Any organization that has an existing taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) can expedite…
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