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Time for Standards

By Melody Smith | October 21, 2011

The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) has went on record saying the concept of metadata in electronic health records (EHR) is too new and unreliable to require tagging in EHRs in Stage 2.

Metadata Standards Rejected

By Melody Smith | September 27, 2011

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has rejected the idea of metadata standards. Saying they believe more work needs to be done to verify the standards before they are implemented, they practically scolded the Department of Health and Human Services over their plans to include metadata standards in Meaningful Use Stage 2.

NIST Launches Standards for the Clouds

By Melody Smith | September 21, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a cloud computing standards road map and a cloud reference architecture to help guide federal agencies to cloud computing technologies.

Standards for the Clouds

By Melody Smith | September 16, 2011

The UK government’s national Cloud Computing strategy is soon to be published and many wonder what the decision on industry-wide standards will be. Rumors are they will not be developing new, but adapting to current ones available.

QuadraMed Releases New Version of Coding Software

By Melody Smith | August 29, 2011

QuadraMed has released a new version of Quantim® Facility Coding that supports both ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets.

Archiving Digital Requires Standards

By Melody Smith | July 29, 2011

Every business is dealing with data storage issues, but in the world of media and entertainment, the demise of the videotape and the prevalence of digital creates a perfect storm of data volume. Without the tangible backup tape, archiving digital data carries more weight than ever before. The urgent need for more secure archives than a mix of external hard drives, cloud storage and proprietary data tapes is here.

From Simple to Complex

By Melody Smith | June 20, 2011

People talk about different kinds of vocabularies. The differences usually have to do with the structure, or lack thereof. Sometimes, people refer to “flat lists”. These are one-level lists with no hierarchical structure. They can be uncontrolled or controlled lists. An uncontrolled list is a simple, flat structure. The uncontrolled list is your “Saturday list”.

Digital Libraries Present New Challenges

By Melody Smith | June 10, 2011

Bibliographic data seems like it would be a fairly simple and straightforward thing. However, it is really just the beginning of the sorts of data tracked in library catalogs. What about metadata standards and information classification systems?

Standards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven

By Melody Smith | May 27, 2011

Manually wading through unstructured, textual data archives to find documents to answer questions can be slow and expensive. New SAS Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits recently announced by SAS, improve the time to value from the automatic classification of unstructured, textual data and from text analytics efforts as a whole.

MTSR 2011 Offers Special Track

By Melody Smith | May 24, 2011 |

The 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment will be a special track of the Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR) 2011. This will bring together researchers and practitioners working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective and in an international discussion forum.