Visualize Your Results
Many users of Data Harmony are intimidated by data visualization. Maybe intimidated is the wrong word, but they certainly have anxiety around seeing their analysis in images vs. lists of tens of thousands words.
Opening Ceremonies
Tuesday was the opening day for the 9th Annual Data Harmony Users Group. Unlike the Olympics, there were no industrial revolution references, Harry Potter's nemisis nor James Bond made an appearance, and Danny Boyle's nod to his childhood did not make the agenda. However, this small group of 60+ was globally represented with attendees and presenters from Holland, Bristol, Spain, India, and New Jersey.
Award Given for Contribution
Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) recently announced that Texas Instruments (TI), specifically Prashant Karandikar, is the recipient of the coveted annual Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award for 2012. Karandikar was the lead software engineer of TI and his leadership, commitment and contributions the committee.
T-Minus: One Week and Counting!
We're busy putting the final preparations on the Ninth Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting. This year's meeting is gearing up to be our biggest and best meeting yet! If we can assist you as you plan your trip to Albuquerque, please contact Heather Kotula or Susan Burritt at any time.
Access Innovations Partners with Leading Scientific Organizations for the Launch of a New Thesaurus Created for Astronomy Community
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in semantic enrichment, has teamed up with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) to create a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers.
Interesting Exercise for IT Professionals
An unusual and spirited event targeted to season developers and engineers in the practice of information architecture is scheduled for its seventh appearance at the IA Summit.
Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting on February 18-20, 2013
On Tuesday evening, join us for dinner at the Albuquerque Aquarium, part of the ABQ BioPark, along the majestic Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our dinner site is next to the 285,000-gallon shark tank, which is home to five species of sharks, several sea turtles, dozens of manta rays and even a few barracudas. (Fear not! Our dinner menu will be different from the inhabitants of the tank! We do not plan to have fish on the menu Tuesday night!)
Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting on February 18-20, 2013
Another exciting case study... MAI in Amazon Cloud using Amazon Web Services Nigel Kerr, JSTOR, and Bob Kasenchak, Access Innovations, Inc., will describe the revolutionary way MAI is being implemented by the JSTOR collection, which numbers about 8.5 million academic articles. Over the course of the JSTOR thesaurus project, we have to use the emergent thesaurus to index these articles several times for testing and implementation. One significant challenge is: how we can index and re-index this vast volume of data without slowing down the thesaurus assembly efforts? To meet this challenge we are using Amazon Web Services (aka "the Amazon cloud"), in which we can "rent" processing time and storage on-demand. This allows us use a large number of computer resources for a very short period of time to get the indexing done. Just another example of how MAI is being adapted to meet our clients needs!
Human-Semantic Web Interaction Workshop Scheduled
Semantic web technologies continue to advance and offer new challenges for user interaction. In reaction to this, a unique workshop has been scheduled to address the challenges already present and potential future developments.
Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Founder and Chair of Access Innovations Chosen as “Woman of Influence”
Marjorie M. K. Hlava, founder and chair of Access Innovations, Inc. of Albuquerque, is among 32 New Mexicans honored as 2013 “Women of Influence” by the Albuquerque Business First.