Google’s Biggest Challenge

Vision is key to succeeding but difficult to obtain if you have been in the lead from the beginning. There is power in seeing the backs of your competitors. It drives you to compete and win. But always seeing the finish line with a clear view can be deceptive.

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Some Thoughts on Vocabulary Control

A large part of what we work on in taxonomy development is vocabulary control. Our classification of knowledge involves designing controlled vocabularies and getting them into a form that we can use many, many times. We also have to do some linguistic analysis of the data to make sure that our terms are working correctly.

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Going Digital With A Purpose

A large collection of court records from the late 1800s are being converted into digital files by New Perspectives Inc. (NPI). Creating digital files that can be indexed, searched and accessed is an honorable task. The benefit here is that the employees hired by NPI are individuals with physical impairments that are learning job skills that will help them make a future for themselves.

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New Release Increases Findability

Instem has released version 8.4 of its Sequence Retrieval System (SRS). This data integration platform is scalable and used in over 300 sites, both commercial and academic. Version 8.4 includes support for indexing data using Apache Lucene technology. Geeks World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Instem Releases Next Version of SRS Data Integration Platform.”

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Special Issue To Cover Semantic Search

The possibilities and limitations of semantic search are often discussed as more and more enterprises and applications utilize the technology. Research on the subject as grown almost as fast as the technology itself. Semantic search research is often based on large and rich data sets and a combination of techniques.

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