Smart collections

Business Intelligence: The Smart Way to Track Academic Collections

University collections are a vital source of knowledge for researchers and often a source of pride for universities. Without an effective way to manage and query them, however, collections often go underutilized. Parts of a collection can remain untapped for years, and the larger it grows, the more diffi cult management becomes. Unfortunately, improving collections management usually comes at a...

Smart Indexes for Efficient Browsing of Library Collections

To enable efficient browsing and interactive querying of very large collections, such as those found in digital libraries, it is essential to provide users with summaries of query result sets. Smart indexes can be used to generate summary statistics, aggregated classification information, and/or aggregated contentbased information for the result sets of arbitrary queries. We present the basic m...

Processing Document Collections to Automatically Extract Linked Data: Semantic Storytelling Technologies for Smart Curation Workflows

We develop a system that operates on a document collection and represents the contained information to enable the intuitive and efficient exploration of the collection. Using various NLP, IE and Semantic Web methods, we generate a semantic layer on top of the collection, from which we take the key concepts. We define templates for structured reorganisation and rearrange the information related ...

Smart Hospitals Need Smart Managers

PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE OF ABDOMINAL ABSCESSES AND FLUID COLLECTIONS

This report summarizes the results of 64 percutaneous catheter drainage of abdominal abscesses and fluid collections in 56 patients. Aspiration and drainage was guided with computed tomography in 34 patients and with ultrasound in 30 patients. Success rate was 90%. Infected collections were successfully drained in 94% and noninfected collections in 72% . Partial success was achieved in two...