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Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014

By Melody Smith | March 17, 2014

Data Harmony, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., has announced that version 3.9 of its suite of software tools will be released on March 31, 2014. Current customers will be the first to receive the new version.

“Our recent enhancements provide greater search efficiency while browsing your thesaurus through callouts and hyperlinks to related and narrower terms,” said Allex Lyons, one of the Data Harmony programming team. “Dropdown menus in the search window display subject terms with a type head (autocomplete) function that assists users of any skill or experience level.”

Capturing the Past

By Melody Smith | March 7, 2014

Infolinx System Solutions is implementing Infolinx WEB for a state library and archives managing physical records from cradle to grave.

The Devil is in the Details

By Melody Smith | March 6, 2014

Implementing a digital asset management (DAM) system can be challenging. Many factors pose hurdles of varying degrees: asset ingestion, building the database, relevant and descriptive metadata, to name a few. It is key to make the assets descriptive enough to make them worth the time to search and find them.

Measures to Findability

By Melody Smith | March 5, 2014

Digital asset management (DAM) is one of those things that confuses people, which discourages them from addressing it. Kind of like those tasks we all put off until we can no longer justify ignoring them. DAM brings with it extra policy, added expenses, and more required training for an already overloaded staff. So why do we do it?

Webinar Address Authority Files

By Melody Smith | March 4, 2014

The American Society for Indexing is hosting a webinar titled – Creating Name Authority Files for Large Indexing Projects. Leading the event is Linda Dunn from Dunn Information Organization. Linda has been a periodical indexer for over thirty years and has been interested in authority files since she began indexing. Through her work with multiple databases she has become familiar with many types of authority files both proprietary and open source.

Digitizing Government Records

By Melody Smith | February 26, 2014

The first modern Land Record Management and Information System (LRMIS) center is working in Taxila tehsil. All land records of the entire tehsil will be digitized, which will create conveniences in transfer of properties and getting revenue documents.

Achieving Findability

By Melody Smith | February 25, 2014

Xerox was chosen by the Department of Homeland Security to convert the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ records to digital form.

Taxonomic Technology in a New Market

By Melody Smith | February 17, 2014

This past week, Access Innovations has been hosting the annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, which has included a variety of presentations. We presented a case study titled “Proven Technology in a New Market: the Data Harmony Suite of Products — A Game Changer in the Medical Claims Compliance Space.”

A Plan is in Order

By Melody Smith | February 13, 2014

Varonis Systems has launched the Varonis Data Governance Suite 5.9, which incorporates a variety of new features to better enable organizations to manage, protect, and safely collaborate with unstructured data.

Capturing the History

By Melody Smith | February 3, 2014

ISKO (the International Society for Knowledge Organization) has made its free online bibliographic service, Knowledge Organization Literature, even more comprehensive. This recent enhancement will cover nine more years back in bibliographical references. Covering the years from 1988 to the present, the Knowledge Organization Literature database continues to be updated with recent literature.