Taxodiary – standards

Maintaining a Thesaurus in an Excel Workbook, Part 2

By Melody Smith|May 14th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, Standards, Taxonomy|1 Comment

In Part 1, we looked at maintaining a taxonomy in Excel – a set of preferred terms arranged in a hierarchy. This taxonomy structure is a handy way to organize a group of terms and can be used across an industry for benchmarking or reporting requirements (see Strategies for Incorporating Data Exchange Standards in E-Business Taxonomies advocating for the construction industry and The IFRS Taxonomy, including the labels used in the International Financial Reporting Standards). Excel works quite well to create and maintain a taxonomy, but how about a thesaurus?

Standardizing Data Integration

By Melody Smith|May 11th, 2012|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Standardizing Data Integration

There is a lot of talk about big data, what it is, how to manage it and where to store it. At its core, big data is metadata and integrating it requires an experienced professional.

New Upgrade to be Standards Compliant

By Melody Smith|May 4th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News, Standards|Comments Off on New Upgrade to be Standards Compliant

SequelMed, Inc. has released an upgrade to compliance with ANSI 5010 for its EMR, EHR and Practice Management software products. This update will enable […]

Data Standard Models in Competition

By Melody Smith|March 22nd, 2012|News, ontology, semantic, Standards|Comments Off on Data Standard Models in Competition

Open Data Model is a fairly new organization, at least compared to EDM Council. But these competing models have been busy lately. EDM set out classifications based on asset class distinctions as the basis for its model. Open Data's model is based on the ISO 10962 standard and the same organizing principles as Wikipedia.

Founder/President of Access Innovations Receives Prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award From NFAIS

By Melody Smith|March 13th, 2012|Access Insights, News, Standards|Comments Off on Founder/President of Access Innovations Receives Prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award From NFAIS

Marjorie M.K. Hlava, founder and CEO of Access Innovations, recently received the prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award for outstanding service from NFAIS (the National Federation of Advanced information Services.)

Standards Can Help Manage Big Data

By Melody Smith|February 24th, 2012|metadata, News, Standards, storage|1 Comment

Between buzzwords like “cloud” and “big data”, it is hard to see through the mirage of mobile devices and social networks let alone analyze or store the data it produces.

Standard for Thesauri and Interoperability Published

By Melody Smith|January 20th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Standard for Thesauri and Interoperability Published

Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) recently reported that ISO 25964-1, the new international standard for thesauri and interoperability, has recently been published and supersedes the well-worn ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. We learned of this in the press release titled, “New international thesaurus standard published.” found on the NKOS site.

Knowledge Organization Requires Standards

By Melody Smith|December 27th, 2011|News, ontology, Standards|Comments Off on Knowledge Organization Requires Standards

There is much automation in the medical world, both in treatment and billing. One of those that were hardest for physicians to accept was clinical pathways. A clinical pathway is a common medical treatment for a disease and care developed by one of the most appropriate care plans. These are used as management models in an effort to improve health care quality and to control medical costs. Standardized electronic clinical pathways use ontologies as shared conceptual models or knowledge organization.

DOD Takes On Huge Project Using the Semantic Web

By Melody Smith|November 30th, 2011|News, semantic, Standards|Comments Off on DOD Takes On Huge Project Using the Semantic Web

The Department of Defense (DOD) is streamlining its millions of personnel and IT systems by standardizing data sharing through the use of the semantic Web. Welcome to the new decade.

Standards for Dummies

By Melody Smith|November 23rd, 2011|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards for Dummies

Metadata is the data that describes data and this metadata map is called Seeing Standards: A Visualisation of the Metadata Universe. It demonstrates the large variety of standards, the communities they serve, their purpose, function and domain.