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Uses for a Thesaurus

By Melody Smith | June 27, 2011

A thesaurus can be used for several different purposes. It is mainly used for information retrieval, in one way or another. We use it in information retrieval both on the search end and in the tagging of the records.

To Like or Not Like?

By Melody Smith | June 24, 2011

“Thumbs up” has taken on a whole new meaning with Facebook’s now famous button “Like”. But how does this ranking in social media affect search ranking? And which is more valuable?

Going Paperless is Not for the Faint-Hearted

By Melody Smith | June 23, 2011 |

Remember the new concept of the “paperless office?” Here we are decades later struggling with the same challenge of automating the storage processes and document management. Why is this so difficult to achieve?

ABBYY Selected by Ingram Micro

By Melody Smith | June 21, 2011

ABBYY and Fujitsu have been selected by Ingram Micro to provide content management solutions to their growing community of IT resellers. Ingram Micro’s Content Management Program focuses on identifying and providing IT resellers with solutions they can offer to SMBs to simplify the capture, management, storage, preservation and delivery of documents and information.

KeyMark Chosen for Document Management Solution

By Melody Smith | June 20, 2011 |

Loudon Mutual Insurance Company has chosen KeyMark Inc. for their document management solution in an effort to improve processes and increase efficiency.

Expanded Digital Facilities and Services

By Melody Smith | June 20, 2011

Thought Equity Motion has expanded its facilities and services to include scanning, library management, archiving, metadata, and distribution services for media.

EBSCO and Wilson Merger

By Melody Smith | June 17, 2011

EBSCO Publishing has merged with the H.W. Wilson Company to improve discovery services for libraries. The “win-win” is that EBSCO databases will have enhanced indexing because the Wilson controlled vocabularies will be integrated into EBSCO’s controlled vocabularies. Subscribers of Wilson databases will be able to search the EBSCO Discovery Service for all Wilson indexing, abstracts, and full text.

Archiving Lives On

By Melody Smith | June 16, 2011

One woman’s dedication to researching local and family history was recognized at the Royal Australian Historical Society New England and North West Affiliated Societies Conference in Armidale. It is the first award Eve Chappell has been given for her work.

Loudoun Mutual Insurance Implements Document Management Strategy

By Melody Smith | June 15, 2011

Loudoun Mutual Insurance Company has engaged KeyMark Inc. to engineer and implement a document management solution to gain greater efficiencies and improve processes.

Pre or Post-Coordinate Indexing?

By Melody Smith | June 13, 2011 |

Most people think about what they want to search for and are willing to combine their concepts at the time of search. If you think of the way people search in Google, they put in the combination of terms they are thinking of; they are doing the coordination of terms. It is up to the search software to do the intersection of the terms for them and figure out the post-coordination.