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Multinational Community Progresses with Standards

By |September 27th, 2010|News, Standards|Comments Off on Multinational Community Progresses with Standards

IFLA (international Federation of Library Associations) was not historically thought of as a place for standards but in the last few years they have been actively working in both support of and development of standards and guidelines. Their latest offering is the Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts, which is a guide to provide the multinational community a standard set of definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in English and a variety of other languages.

Executive Interviews Will Be Featured on Knowledgespeak

By |September 27th, 2010|Business strategy, indexing, News|Comments Off on Executive Interviews Will Be Featured on Knowledgespeak

Scope e-Knowledge Center will be exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 6-10, 2010. In addition to Scope's diverse services, Knowledgespeak, a daily news alert service published by Scope, will also be conducting a series of exclusive interviews with select industry executives during the fair.

Shaking the Image of Dusty Archives

By |September 24th, 2010|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Shaking the Image of Dusty Archives

10-year project, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby's Heritage, tied with a Smithsonian Institute project last month for ArchivesNext's award for best repurposing of digitized data. The online project allows visitors to Heritage Burnaby's website to click on and learn about historic locations on each of the maps.

Voice Technology: Moving Forward

By |September 24th, 2010|News, Technology|Comments Off on Voice Technology: Moving Forward

One author wonders if voice technology has what it takes to take us into the next century and next great technological advancement. After testing several different products, he gives us his thumbs up.

Happy Birthday Google News!

By |September 23rd, 2010|indexing, News, search|1 Comment

Eight years since the launch of Google News, the information directory continues to grow as one of the company's most important products and the internet's most influential news portal. Google today indexes news from more than 50,000 sources in 30 languages.

Sophia Search Uses Semiotic Approach

By |September 23rd, 2010|indexing, News, ontology, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Sophia Search Uses Semiotic Approach

Sophia Search brings a different approach to searching information in the enterprise to market in the form of a search engine tool that understands the relationship between related sets of content. Rather than taking the approach to indexing that relies on taxonomy and ontology, Sophia search engine relies on a Contextual Discovery Engine.

Fairview Research Acquires IFI Patent Intelligence

By |September 22nd, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on Fairview Research Acquires IFI Patent Intelligence

Fairview Research has acquired IFI Patent Intelligence from Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions. IFI is the leading producer of value-added U.S. patent databases and indexing services.