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Conference on Ethics This Month

By Melody Smith | June 4, 2012

Time is almost running out to register for the 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization. If you are interested in “a different view on taxonomies” this might be the educational event you should attend.

Maintaining a Thesaurus in an Excel Workbook, Part 2

By Melody Smith | May 14, 2012 |

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 11, 2012

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 4, 2012

SequelMed, Inc. has released an upgrade to compliance with ANSI 5010 for its EMR, EHR and Practice Management software products. This update will enable users to send HIPAA 5010 compliant claims as per the requirements set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. MarketWatch brought this news to our attention in their article,…

Data Standard Models in Competition

By Melody Smith | March 22, 2012

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 13, 2012

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 24, 2012 |

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 20, 2012

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 27, 2011

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 30, 2011

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.