Posts by Melody Smith
Tripbase Takes Travel Planning to Another Level
A new travel database, Tripbase, has taken artificial intelligence into the world of travel planning and beyond. Travel planning isn’t like shopping where you can download a product catalog. People want to know more details about their location, whether it be the color of the sand on the beaches or the local etiquette de jour.
Read MoreDigital Storage Streamlines Museum Data
London’s Imperial War Museum is renovating its technology infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of digital storage. As part of the process, they implemented a Front Porch Digital SAMMAsolo. The SAMMAsolo system, which incorporates a SAMMAcleaner, is a compact, single-stream appliance that automatically migrates content from videotape to digital files in multiple formats while also monitoring and quality-controlling the process. The migration preserves source time code and links indexing and technical metadata.
Read MoreMetaViewer Automation Produces ROI
Metafile Information Systems launched its Microsoft Dynamics Partner Program at the Dynamics GP User Group (GPUG) Summit in October. Metafile is a leading paperless accounts payable, accounts receivable and human resources document management and workflow solution provider.
Read MoreIt’s All in the Facts
AdSense creator, Gil Elbaz, scores big with another software tool called Factual. Beginning service to the public in October, Factual organizes bits of useful data strewn across the Internet. Every day, names, numbers, dates, addresses, and other unstructured data are added to the Web. Since it doesn’t follow any standard formatting, this data is useless to most computers. Machines can’t readily grasp concepts such as “middle school” or “junior high,” let alone distinguish how they’re related…at least until now.
Read MoreGrant Given to Build Database and Image Library
The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support developing a database and image library at the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum and consolidating data from five additional arthropod collections.
Read MoreAutomating Document Retrieval
Extol has integrated its B2B integration platform with S4i Systems. This joint effort will offer a seamless integration of event-driven real-time communications between companies using EXTOL’s EDI system and a S48 complete document delivery system and will optimize supply chain communications.
Read MoreSupercomputing 2010 Next Week
New Orleans is the location of the IEEE Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), on November 13-19, 2010. Supercomputing 2010 offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research, education and commerce.
Read MoreYou Are In Control
Data Harmony users have been given the opportunity to design their own User Group meeting.
Read MoreRepositioning Information Science
One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.
Read MoreJaspersoft Release Open Source Reporting Tool
Developer of business intelligence tools written in Java, Jaspersoft, recently unveiled JasperReports Server Professional. After its start nine years ago as a SourceForge project to develop an open source reporting tool that can be embedded into Java and Web applications, the project has grown into a full commercial venture.
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