Taxodiary – News

Patent Awarded to Guid

By Melody Smith|November 11th, 2010|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Patent Awarded to Guid

The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Guid with a patent for its method of helping organizations quickly and efficiently search for data within the corporate universe. This system is better known as EnCase(R) Enterprise.

Tripbase Takes Travel Planning to Another Level

By Melody Smith|November 10th, 2010|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Tripbase Takes Travel Planning to Another Level

A new travel database, Tripbase, has taken artificial intelligence into the world of travel planning and beyond. Travel planning isn't like shopping where you can download a product catalog. People want to know more details about their location, whether it be the color of the sand on the beaches or the local etiquette de jour.

Digital Storage Streamlines Museum Data

By Melody Smith|November 10th, 2010|Autoindexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Digital Storage Streamlines Museum Data

London’s Imperial War Museum is renovating its technology infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of digital storage. As part of the process, they implemented a Front Porch Digital SAMMAsolo. The SAMMAsolo system, which incorporates a SAMMAcleaner, is a compact, single-stream appliance that automatically migrates content from videotape to digital files in multiple formats while also monitoring and quality-controlling the process. The migration preserves source time code and links indexing and technical metadata.

MetaViewer Automation Produces ROI

By Melody Smith|November 10th, 2010|Autoindexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on MetaViewer Automation Produces ROI

Metafile Information Systems launched its Microsoft Dynamics Partner Program at the Dynamics GP User Group (GPUG) Summit in October. Metafile is a leading paperless accounts payable, accounts receivable and human resources document management and workflow solution provider.

It’s All in the Facts

By Melody Smith|November 9th, 2010|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on It’s All in the Facts

AdSense creator, Gil Elbaz, scores big with another software tool called Factual. Beginning service to the public in October, Factual organizes bits of useful data strewn across the Internet. Every day, names, numbers, dates, addresses, and other unstructured data are added to the Web. Since it doesn't follow any standard formatting, this data is useless to most computers. Machines can't readily grasp concepts such as "middle school" or "junior high," let alone distinguish how they're related…at least until now.

Grant Given to Build Database and Image Library

By Melody Smith|November 9th, 2010|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Grant Given to Build Database and Image Library

The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support developing a database and image library at the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum and consolidating data from five additional arthropod collections.

Automating Document Retrieval

By Melody Smith|November 9th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Automating Document Retrieval

Extol has integrated its B2B integration platform with S4i Systems. This joint effort will offer a seamless integration of event-driven real-time communications between companies using EXTOL’s EDI system and a S48 complete document delivery system and will optimize supply chain communications.

Supercomputing 2010 Next Week

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 2010|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Supercomputing 2010 Next Week

New Orleans is the location of the IEEE Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), on November 13-19, 2010. Supercomputing 2010 offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research, education and commerce.

You Are In Control

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 2010|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on You Are In Control

Data Harmony users have been given the opportunity to design their own User Group meeting.

Jaspersoft Release Open Source Reporting Tool

By Melody Smith|November 5th, 2010|Business Intelligence, News, Technology|Comments Off on Jaspersoft Release Open Source Reporting Tool

Developer of business intelligence tools written in Java, Jaspersoft, recently unveiled JasperReports Server Professional. After its start nine years ago as a SourceForge project to develop an open source reporting tool that can be embedded into Java and Web applications, the project has grown into a full commercial venture.