Posts by Melody Smith
Calculating the ROI of Semantic Enrichment
We are often asked for help in calculating the potential return on investment (ROI) of investing in a taxonomy. How this calculation is done depends on the type of organization and who will be the users of the taxonomy. For any content-intensive organization, using a taxonomy increases findability, which in turn leads to greater utility and value for the organization’s content assets. Within the enterprise, this translates into hours and dollars saved by reducing the time required to find things, as well as the time and expense of redoing research or other work that can’t be found.
Read MoreYour Own Personal Search Engine? Sentimnt Could Be It
Retrieving information from the internet comes in many forms. The most widely used comes via the usual search engines such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo. How would you like your own personal social search engine?
Read MoreManaged Metadata Service Application Deemed A Star
Managed Metadata Service application was tagged as the most important new service application in SharePoint Server 2010.
Read MoreOpen Source Code – How Compliant Are You?
Open source has become very popular in the corporate world as of lately. But where exactly does your own open source come from, and better yet, how compliant are you?
Read MoreStandards Are Advancing Quickly On the International Front
Much of what is happening with standards seems to be evolving along parallel but separate paths.
Read MoreMediaSeeker Core Platform 3.0 To Be Unveiled At IBC2010
IPharro Media’s lightweight, scalable video indexing and identification engine helps businesses implement effective content identification and tracking strategies within any existing media-centric workflow.
Read MoreIBM Adds DataCap To Its Arsenal
IBM’s recent acquisition of document capture vendor DataCap, will add new technology that enables users to extract data from structured and unstructured formats, including information from tax returns, invoices and other forms, as well as email and PowerPoint presentations.
Read MoreThe Triumphant Ascendance of the Librarian
Librarians are hoarders with conventional and intellectually-provincial minds and authors struggle to think outside the boxes that librarians keep foisting upon the academic disciplines within which they both operate.
Read MoreConference on Linked Data Coming Soon
This ISKO UK one-day conference examines how this linking can be done using Semantic Web technologies like URIs, RDF and SKOS, and how real-world examples of Linked Data in action are here, now, and are growing.
Read MoreNISO Members – Don’t Forget To Vote
Voting for the ballot on standard ISO/FDIS 24614-1, Language resource management -Word segmentation of written texts — Part 1: Basic concepts and general principles is coming to a close.
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