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Taxonomies and Content Governance
July 5, 2010 — In the 1980s, commercial database producers had an editorial policy. I recall reading the Courier Journal / Data Courier description of the editorial policy for the original ABI/INFORM business database. (Disclosure: Access Innovations was an advisor to the Courier Journal’s commercial database operation.) The idea was that subject matter experts and…
Read MoreFind an Indexer, Find a Job Indexing
At the American Society for Indexing Web site, take a look at what the society offers and explore some of the information on the site.
Read MoreWho Is Who in the Semantic Web
A potentially useful list of people involved in semantic Web projects provides basic biographical information for 100 individuals.
Read MoreSemantic Taxonomy Induction
“Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogeneous Evidence” became available in 2006. It was one of the first presentations of a method that is apparently becoming increasingly important at a certain large Web search company.
Read MoreLaw Firm Technology Vendor Satisfaction Survey
Law.com’s vendor survey suggests areas in which technology vendors should be working to improve.
Read MoreTricom’s Data Management and Capturing Services Make Profit
June 7, 2010 – India- based company, Tricom recently reported a rise in revenue over the past year. Business Standard reported on this firm’s encouraging financial reports in their article, “Tricom India Registers 5.80% Rise in Revenue” This global business specializes in six major areas in data management and data capturing services which include indexing,…
Read MoreCisco Part of Medical Data Exchange Program
June 7, 2010 – Cisco network devices may be edging toward firmware that tags content. Cisco may have a new endeavor seeks to keep privacy top priority while working to enhance the exchange of user-friendly personal health records. MarketWatch recently reported on this new patient indexing project in their article, “Cisco and Electronic Health Network…
Read MoreData Alignment: Good Data Means Better Business
June 7, 2010 – In a client meeting last week, we heard, “I needed to retrieve the Wilson proposal but I had to wade through two screens of results before I could locate the document I wanted.” We took a quick look and saw that the document creator had assigned uncontrolled free text index terms.…
Read MoreIndexing: Chopping Logic
June 4, 2010 – The Nieman Journalism Lab’s “Aggregators, Curators, and Indexers: There’s a Difference and It Matters” makes a great deal of sense. You will want to read the original write-up by C. W.Anderson. For us, the most interesting comment was: Anytime you hear someone talk about Google News, The Huffington Post, Gawker, blogging,…
Read MoreSearch Capabilities Expanding to Arabic Language
June 4, 2010 – The recently unveiled SAMAR Project team consists of the French government and international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Their goal is to find a high-quality semantic search strategy for AFP’s Arabic-language news, audio, and video multimedia content. The Arabic language presents unique challenges for content producers. The difficult linguistic patterns prohibit…
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