Taxodiary – indexing

Mortgage Disaster Spurs New Use of Indexing Technology

By Melody Smith|October 19th, 2010|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Mortgage Disaster Spurs New Use of Indexing Technology

The startup, Legalprise, launched to track court records, has become the popular kid on the foreclosure block due to the mortgage industry’s tragic situation. The searchable database of every foreclosure filing and every related docket entry for five states plans to expand to cover the 23 states where foreclosures are part of a judicial process. Ultimately, the company's goal is a nationwide, searchable repository of legal documents and public records.

SQL: Yes or No?

By Melody Smith|October 15th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on SQL: Yes or No?

“NoSQL” has been thrown around a lot lately, but what exactly does it mean? It is a generic term that describes any data management system that does not use SQL as a query interface. Early on the positioning was much more aggressive, but more recently this has been softened so now NoSQL is commonly quoted as meaning of “Not only SQL”; in other words, one of many tools.

What to do with all this data?

By Melody Smith|October 15th, 2010|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on What to do with all this data?

Large institutions have massive amounts of data in this modern age, the question is what to do with all of it. Extracting the right information can help avoid waste, delays, systems failures, even terrorist threats. A perfect example is Toyota’s customer support and repair data. If business intelligence had been applied and management had been looking, they would have noticed that something was going terribly wrong.

Accenture Deploys Digital Diagnostics Engine

By Melody Smith|October 15th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on Accenture Deploys Digital Diagnostics Engine

Accenture is deploying its digital diagnostics engine, which scans websites to identify performance problems and structural deficiencies, into the Windows Azure platform. This news was announced at the third annual Microsoft 2010 Asia High Tech Summit in Tokyo.

Bing Chosen by French Library To Improve Access

By Melody Smith|October 14th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on Bing Chosen by French Library To Improve Access

Reaching across the waters, the French national library BNF has chosen Microsoft’s Bing to improve access to the 1.25 million documents on the Gallica digital library. It covers works that are in the public domain.

Business Intelligence Technology

By Melody Smith|October 13th, 2010|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, indexing, News|Comments Off on Business Intelligence Technology

Hadoop began as a tool for indexing Web pages, now the open source framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.

Publishers Adapting to a Faster Audience

By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Publishers Adapting to a Faster Audience

Things have been changing in the global publishing industry. Some are obvious, but many of the underlying trends are more subtle and relate to the changing audience and their behaviors, i.e. usage patterns. This is referred to as "Audience 2.0." Publishers are looking for ways to react to the current changes in the media industry and position themselves as long-term survivors and leaders.

Preventing Duplication of Content

By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Preventing Duplication of Content

Identifying on-site content duplication when you have thousands of pages on your site is not a walk in the park. It isn’t just copy you need to be concerned with, title elements and metatagging should be considered as well.

Classified Homeland Security: Transforming Data into Information

By Melody Smith|October 11th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classified Homeland Security: Transforming Data into Information

October 11, 2010 – You’ve just read the title and already there is trouble. “Classified” has multiple uses. What is meant here? When discussing […]

You Cannot Classify Unless You Connect

By admin|October 4th, 2010|Featured, indexing, Taxonomy, Text processing|Comments Off on You Cannot Classify Unless You Connect

October 4, 2010 — One of the facts of classification and indexing is that one has to have access to the content. Most users […]