Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data integrity and content creation, has announced the Access Innovations Integrity Initiative (AI³), a suite of tools and services for quality assurance and validation of medical coding.
A customer asked me "how is the taxonomy connected to search?" Their search vendor says they can implement the full taxonomy. This is such a simple question - such a long winded answer below.
Why is it that people seem to feel that they need to get the platform and the technology in place and tested before they ever work on the organization of their information and cleaning up the data? They do not look at the data and what the data needs to be best used by the user community. I am repeatedly getting told that the DTD/Schema for the data and the taxonomy implementation have been pushed back because they are working on implementing the platform. What do they think the platform is for? Without well organized and well formed test data how will they even begin to know that the system will be able to work well for their information? How do they know that the user can find anything in the proposed system if they have no idea what the data is like? Where are the taxonomy terms going to go in the database or the record or the system? How are they bound to the information they reference? Building the platform first is like buying a pair of shoes without knowing either the size of the foot or the occasion for which they are to be worn. Rant! Rant
Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, Taxonomies in Search webinar will be held Wednesday, August 10th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).
ASIS&T and Access Innovations are hosting a webinar on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (EDT). The webinar is named “Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation” and the facilitators will be Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., and Joe Shepley, Vice President and Practice leader for Doculabs.
As knowledge organization systems increase in complexity, we have increasing numbers of dimensions or features or ways to define the terms. Semantic networks help with bringing all those concepts together and tagging them so that you can look at them in lots of different ways.
During her 33 years in the search industry, Margie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, has seen a lot of trends come and go. Today’s changing information environment, with its ever-growing avalanche of data and critical need for better search and more efficient organization of content, presents some unique challenges. Hlava recently shared her views with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst who has more than 30 years of experience, as part of his Search Wizards Speak series. Access Innovations, Hlava’s company, is releasing an excerpt of the interview.
Nowadays, taxonomy and thesaurus often are used interchangeably. Indeed, we can consider a hierarchical thesaurus (which most are these days) as a fancy taxonomy. In either case, we use the controlled vocabulary for the indexing and retrieval. The hierarchical array is for our convenience for either navigating the collection when we are searching or for organizing the terms.
I’ve been asked if taxonomies can be connected. The thinking was, if these taxonomies are standardized, or at least mostly standardized, it seems that there should be a way that taxonomies can be connected in various organizational systems.