Digitizing History
It seems simple, even obvious. But in Southern Illinois, it had not been done yet. Shurtleff College, one of the predecessors to SIUE, has leapt into the digital age with nearly four decades' worth of yearbooks now are online.
IBM Launches Cloud-Based Storage
IBM plans to launch new cloud-based storage, back-up and data recovery services for small businesses as well as larger enterprises. SmartCloud Resiliency Services will include SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery and Archive, and will be provided through servers and software located in IBM data centers worldwide.
Semantic Technology Needs A Solid Taxonomy
The changes in retail traffic and popularity of things like GroupOn, Try It Local, etc. is motivating GeoCommerce to complete the process of consummating strategic relationships to ensure their footing in the future of Consumer Identification and Authentication.
Flexible Technology is the Key
Enterprise content management (ECM) software needs to be as flexible as any other technology on the market. Hyland Software's ECM solution, OnBase, is a good example of this with their expanded core functionality of intelligent imaging and capture, and a platform that can be leveraged for building data-driven applications. Add to that the increasing opportunities for it to be offered in a mobile-enabled environment.
Let’s Play
Microtask, a Finnish company, attempted a new approach in the digitization effort of the National Library of Finland. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, the method through which scanned documents are converted from image to searchable text, can be prone to errors which can affect accuracy and indexing. Unfortunately, these mistakes can only be corrected by human hands and that is a time consuming task.
New Versions Available for Lucene Core and Solr
New versions of Lucene Core – Java-based indexing and search tool formerly known as Lucene Java - and Solr – an enterprise search server - are now available from the Apache Lucene project.
Scope Scoops Up New Project
Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), India, has announced that it has been selected by ASTM International for its subject matter expert (SME)-curated knowledge mining and indexing services.
Indexing Needs A Solid Taxonomy
The National and University Library of Slovenia has adopted EBSCO's Discovery Service (EDS) to index their library resources into a single, searchable catalog.
Document Management Systems Continue to Evolve
New capabilities in document capture software are changing what was a simple, flat process – scanning – and making it possible to use the tools to streamline and optimize the overall document management process.
IBM Joins the Cloud Games
Look for IBM to roll out a set of cloud-based backup services designed to help organizations save, archive and restore data after a system failure or disaster. Known as the SmartCloud Resilience services, they complement IBM’s SmartCloud Managed Backup. The offering consists of a physical and virtual server recovery service that constantly backs up an organization's applications and related data on IBM's secure cloud infrastructure.