Posts Tagged ‘Best practices’

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.

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, 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.

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!)

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!

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.