New Do It Yourself Search Engine

A new search engine plans to do battle with the giants, i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. YaCy plans to put the search into the hands of users by giving out its indexing engine around the Internet for free.

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ZooKeys Celebrates Growth

ZooKeys celebrates their 150th issue by reporting a 120% growth by year end. This open access journal has the benefit of easy distribution of information, which makes the data more relevant and popular.

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Semantic Integration – Part I of VI

To discuss the semantic integration or the leveraging of a taxonomy in search, web sites mashups and other places, we should first review what they are. Let’s look at the definitions and then the integration of a taxonomy as a building block for the larger information architecture for an organization. We need to think of taxonomies in that bigger case when we are talking about where we apply them. Once those are out of the way I will review some use-cases and show what makes them work.

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Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #5

We started this week discussing the blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site regarding myths about taxonomies and SharePoint. You can see my original argument here. Today, let’s talk about the final Myth, #5 – Taxonomies managed in the in the term store can be used everywhere in the SharePoint application.

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