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Anticipation Surrounds WordPress 3.1 Impending Release

By |February 3rd, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Anticipation Surrounds WordPress 3.1 Impending Release

With the impending WordPress version 3.1 release, anticipation and hype continue to grow within the community and networks. This popular brand continues to grow excitement and we wondered why.

Technology in the Education Sector

By |February 3rd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Technology in the Education Sector

Many educational institutions are looking for technology to beef up their resume for potential students, i.e. potential tuition dollars.

How Useful Are Taxonomies in Search?

Recall, precision and relevance are factors that figure heavily in search, yet they are often missing from taxonomies. In the second of a four-part webinar series co-hosted by Access Innovations and the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Margie Hlava will explore how search can potentially be improved by applying subject metadata and how taxonomies can be used on the front-end or attached to records at the time they are created and loaded.

Thesaurus from – and for – the Farm

The USDA has announced release of the 2011 edition of the on-line NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (NALT). This release adds 3,441 new terms and 321 definitions to these vocabulary tools.

US Census Bureau Using Endeca Technology

By |January 31st, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on US Census Bureau Using Endeca Technology

Endeca Technologies has launched the US Census Bureau’s new American FactFinder application built on Endeca Latitude. American FactFinder makes more than 250 billion decennial census facts available and navigable to the average American, civil servants and skilled statisticians alike.