What would it be like to have search sites take your friends’ opinions into account when you look for restaurants? Newspaper sites that use their knowledge of what’s previously captured your attention online to display articles you are interested in? Sounds a lot like Amazon’s technology, doesn’t it?
Power of the Dream Ventures has announced they are going forward on a roadmap for iGlue to take the company public in the United States.
Access Innovations, a leader in the data and content management industry, has announced that its Data Harmony suite of content enrichment and thesaurus management tools can now be fully integrated with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Data Harmony fills semantic gaps in SharePoint to help users take full advantage of their metadata through auto classification, enterprise taxonomy management, entity extraction, and search enhancements. The end result is information assets that are more searchable and more accessible.
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.
Eliminating the concern about wasting time and money searching for data, the folks over at Dell have joined forces with Perfect Search to offer the Perfect Search Appliance (PSA) as a solution for indexing and finding the information you need, now.
A Taxonomy is an organization system. It is a controlled vocabulary, containing a parent-child or hierarchical relationship, the specificity happens at the lower levels, at the branches, at the leaflets - or at the end of the list. They are very common on websites. They are also commonly supported as pick lists -- a drop down menu of ten or twelve items. Sometimes they are browsable directories. There are many different ways to put them in play. There are not many standards as yet for taxonomies but there are many standards for thesauri.
ZL Technologies presented at the Digital Government Institute (DGI) E-Discovery, Records & Information Management Conference in D.C. recently. Their experience in archiving, E-Discovery, and records management software brings them to talk about the failure of government agencies to adopt a compliant electronic recordkeeping system.
Alteryx chosen by U.S. Census Bureau to enable compressing and indexing of spatially-enabled demographic data.
MarkLogic was selected by Zinio to power their content platform and provide consumers with instant access and search ability of the world’s largest digital newsstand.