Posts Tagged ‘Standards’
DocuWare Maintains Quality Management System
DocuWare recently announced that they have applied for and received ISO 9001 recertification in 2010. The main requirement for certification is inplace methods and processes to prevent errors and maintaining a seamless Quality Management System.
Read MoreMaster Data Management is Coming to Healthcare
Healthcare is changing, both in patient treatment and the government’s role in regulation and reimbursement. This makes the use of data, business intelligence and analytics tools ever more important.
Read MoreIntegration Allows New Speech Analytics
Nexidia has integrated Nexidia Capture and Nexidia Scan into Cisco’s new media capture platform. Cisco’s media capture platform is an open-standards, network-based solution that provides recording, playback, live streaming, and storage of media, including audio and video, with rich metadata to facilitate easy use. This integration allows Cisco customers the ability to create real-time speech alerting applications and the power to perform speech analytics with archived audio.
Read MoreOpen Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region
Recently, several very well known organizations announced that they had formed Asia Cloud Computing Association (Asia Cloud), an open collaboration forum based in the Asia Pacific region.
Read MoreBook Publishing – What About the Standards?
The world of books is getting bigger and more complicated. The promise of digital is ultimate flexibility and portability, but unlike magazine or newspaper publishers, book publishers do not own their content outright. So where does that leave the pursuit of standards?
Read MoreCelebrating 15 Years of Dublin Core
In Pittsburgh, in conjunction with ASIS&T’s recent annual meeting, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Dublin Core metadata standards. DCMI describes itself as “an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI’s activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.”
Read MoreRepositioning Information Science
One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.
Read MoreStandards in Biomedical Research
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is working with the US National Cancer Institute’s Enterprise Vocabulary Services (NCI-EVS) on a new electronic library designed to help define and standardize data elements for use in biomedical research and healthcare.
Read MoreStandards Are Top of the List
Lack of standards, applications built without considering data sharing, and a lack of a metadata warehouse all make data integration difficult. What can make it easy, or, at the very least, easier?
Read MoreThe Path to Transparency Conference
The XBRL US National Conference will be held November 9-10, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA and will feature educational sessions and practical training that can be applied immediately by public company financial executives, investors and securities processing professionals.
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