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…

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Semantic 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.

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Tricom’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,…

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Cisco 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…

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Data 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.…

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Indexing: 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,…

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Search 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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