controlled vocabulary

CNET: Facebook is expanding its vocabulary.

Recently at f8, Facebook's developer conference, the company introduced a series of action verbs into its social platform. "Read," "Watch," and "Listen," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained, were added to help build a "language for how people connect."

TAMEBAY: eBaySaurus is a cutting edge tool from eBay offering a new view of search terms and a new way to discover related items to topics of interest.

FIERCE EMR: One of the biggest obstacles to true interoperability among clinical information systems is the multiplicity of medical terms used to describe the same concept. In an effort to promote "semantic interoperability" among systems, the Health IT Standards Committee, a governmental advisory body, has endorsed the use of certain standard vocabularies in electronic health records (EHRs).