Posts by Melody Smith
PureDiscovery Powers First Glance
PureDiscovery Corporation has announced its semantic search technology now serves as the engine powering First Glance, the only early case assessment (ECA) solution on the market today that combines transparent concept search, visual clustering and near duplication technology.
Read MoreEDS and World Book Team Up
A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and World Book will bring twelve popular reference tools into EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the World Book content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface. The twelve World Book resources that will be searchable in EDS include popular English language titles as well as French and Spanish language reference tools.
Read MoreEQUELLA Seeks to Meet the Needs of Educators
Pearson has released EQUELLA® 5, the latest version of digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online.
Read MoreKnowledge is Power
It has been said that Web 3.0 is defined as real identities generating massive amounts of data on facts, personal habits and social inclinations encompassing every area of their lives. When you include healthcare data, government information, and the slew of security records – the predicted amount has been surpassed a thousand times.
Read MoreClarity in Chaos
Information architecture is on the forefront lately, whether we realize it or not. The history-making revolts against middle eastern governments has spurred massive amounts of data, and confusion.
Read MoreNew Product Enhances Data Mining
Pingar will soon launch its first Chinese search portal, after four years of working to develop the Chinese market.
Read MoreSemantic Enrichment for Publishers: Beyond Search and Browse
Using taxonomies and semantic tagging of articles to enable subject browsing and to improve Search are two of the most popular reasons why publishers invest in semantic technology, but the potential benefits are not limited to these two applications.
Read MoreCatholic Publication Goes Online
The first volume of The Southern Guardian has completed scanning, and every issue from the year 1911 is now available to read online. What may seem to be a small project, and indeed it may be, is valued by many.
Read MoreLooking Back At One Woman’s Adventure in Computer Science
Wendy Hall, previous president for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton in England, ponders on the past and looks forward to the future.
Read MoreSLA Conference Early Bird Deadline is Today
If you haven’t registered for the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow information professionals, be inspired by their ideas and empowered by the history of the city – today is the last day to do so and qualify for the early bird discount.
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