PRESENTATIONS

Our Access Innovations, Inc. experts have been giving presentations at events for years. Here is a collection of some of our favorite presentations with topics ranging from our Data Harmony software to data organization to searching the internet. Feel free to peruse our fantastic presentations. Many of these presentations have links to download the pdf/powerpoint and some even have a video of the presentation posted.

“Understanding How Search Works”

With the launches of various LLMs and GPTs over the past two years, we have learned that the size of the collection matters and things we only dreamed of, have become a reality. In the meantime, we have leapfrogged over some of the WHAT about search and the basics that underlie HOW search works haven’t changed since the early 1970s! Understanding How Search Works enables you to make better use what you have in place now and how to implement those much-hyped Gen AI platforms. Join Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Founder and Chief Science Officer at Access Innovations, Inc. for an insightful webinar that will open your eyes and help you make informed decisions about which steps to take next – without a Computer Science degree!
November 7, 2024
Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc., Webinar

Understanding How Search Works Webinar

Understanding How Search Works - Slides

“Making AI Behave: Using Knowledge Domains to Produce Useful, Trustworthy Results”

March 26, 2024

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc., Webinar

“Super Charge Your AI”

May 29, 2024

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc., SSP Conference, Industry Breakout Session

“Making AI Behave: Using Knowledge Domains to Produce Useful, Trustworthy Results”

March 26, 2024

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc., Webinar

“How Controlled Vocabularies Facilitate AI, LLM, and Search”

March 20, 2024

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. to MITRE Data Management Community of Practice, Webinar

“Status and ISO 25964-1 Report ISO/TC 46/SC 9/WG 8”

March 20-21, 2024

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at NKOS Workshop in conjunction with the 18th International Society for Knowledge Organization, Recorded and Remotely Presented, for slides ISO25964 update – ISKO 2024

“NISO Plus 2024 – Generative AI and Intellectual Property: Issues and Options (some questions)”

February 14, 2024

Panel Discussion with Robert Wheeler, ASME, Roy Kaufman, CCC, Jeffrey Beck, NLM & Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at NISO Plus Annual Meeting

“ChatGPT, Taxonimst: Opportunities & Challenges in AI-Assisted Taxonomy Development”

November 7, 2023

As ChatGPT has stormed into nearly every intelligent space with almighty power, we should expect a revolution to take place in taxonomy development and use. What risks and rewards might that revolution bring? Hear about opportunities and challenges posed by ChatGPT, how it can be used in taxonomy creation, and its potential for taxonomy management. Hear lessons learned on interacting with ChatGPT and how best to write ChatGPT prompts for taxonomy creation and management. Hear about two cases of taxonomy creation using ChatGPT and how human expertise was invaluable in verifying the AI assistant’s work. The panelists also discuss risks of AI-developed taxonomies and the path forward for this formidable technology. Presented by Margorie Hlava, Access Innovations, Heather Kotula, Access Innovations, and Xia Lin, Drexel University at Taxonomy Boot Camp 2023

“Auto tagging documents using the ICS-10, CPT and HCPCS code sets in all document types”

June, 2023

Presented by Margie Hlava at Special Libraries Association Session, Pre-recorded and On-demand for Virtual Annual Meeting

“Semantic Censorship”

November 7, 2022

The beauty of language is that concepts can be expressed in many ways. The challenge for a researcher is to include all those variations to find all data related to their topic. With the pressures to conform to different standards over time, we need to be certain that information is not lost to researchers by changes in terminology. This quirk came to light during the COVID-19 pandemic: The virus was called by many different names through the course of the pandemic, from very scientific to very casual, to the point of pejorative. This session covers the implications of choosing—or not choosing—taxonomy terms viewed through the lens of censorship. Presented by Angela Cochran, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, and Heather Kotula, Access Innovations at Taxonomy Boot Camp 2022

“Accessibility, Usability, Inclusivity: Information Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices”

October 29-November 1, 2022

85th Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting

“Semantic Censorship”

April, 2022

Presented by Heather Kotula, Access Innovations, Inc. and Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at KLA/SLA Joint Spring Conference

“Search is Better with Metadata: Real Life Experiences”

March, 2022

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at UK ISKO, Virtual Presentation

“A Conversation About Semantic Censorship”

February, 2022

Presented by Angela Cochran, ASCO, Shelly Ray Brundige, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority & Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at NISO Plus, Virtual Meeting

“Semantic Search and Content Management – Case Studies in Successful Software Implementations”

October, 2021

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at AI-SDV 2021 Conference, Virtual Meeting

“Eureka I found it!” – A Presentation on How Search Works With Taxonomies – SLA 2021

August 19, 2021

Marjorie M.K. Hlava presented at SLA in 2021 on how to search works with taxonomies. This informative presentation is on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet. In this presentation, she talks about creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines. Learn how content without access is nearly worthless. Examples are given featuring Access Innovation’s Data Harmony suite.

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at SLA 2021 Conference

“KO-ED Theoretical Perspectives – Automated Indexing: Implementation Case Studies”

February, 2021

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at ISKO UK, Virtual Meeting

“The Upside of AI: Profitable Revenue?”

November, 2020

Presented by Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. at KMWorld 2021, Virtual Meeting

“WHAT’S IN A NAME? How Kew helps drug regulators disambiguate the messy welter of medicinal plant names to shore up regulation and save lives”

August 26, 2020

Bob Allkin, Royal Botanical Garden Kew, & Margie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc. Moderated by Bill Kasdorf

In the series “MEANING MATTERS: Practical Applications of Semantic Technology,” Bill Kasdorf and Access Innovations discuss an interesting topic within the scientific community. Dr. Bob Allkin, scientist at The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and is responsible for their Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS), found immense difficulty in the consolidation and disambiguation of both medical and colloquial expressions of plant names. Kew is a major custodian of the world’s botanical nomenclature.

Bob’s talk is entitled “WHAT’S IN A NAME? How Kew helps drug regulators disambiguate the messy welter of medicinal plant names to shore up regulation and save lives”. It’s really eye-opening to realize how complicated and imprecise names can get, with multiple scientific, pharmaceutical and popular names for the same thing or with one name used for completely different things.

This has real-world consequences. For example, the EU mistakenly banned a useful plant we use every day when intending to ban a poisonous one because of a naming problem. How Kew is using semantic and taxonomic tools and technologies to bring order to this complexity (I almost said chaos) is really fascinating. They’re also helping to disambiguate nomenclature and provide links to authoritative information for botanical terms for use in journal articles, among other things.

Margie Hlava, President of Access Innovations and a botanist by training, will be on hand to answer questions about the technologies implemented behind the scenes.

You can find the entirety of the webinar in the links below. This webinar aired noon Eastern time on Wednesday, August 26th.