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Learn How to Increase Findability
Enterprise Search & Discovery is holding their annual summit in Washington D.C. on November 3-5, 2015. This year’s theme is “Delivering on the Promise of Search.” This event is a good opportunity to learn about new technologies, next generation information access, and interesting approaches to search and discovery. Who should attend the Enterprise Search &…
Read MoreSearch What?
Semantic search isn’t new. We have all experienced it, whether we realized it at the time or not. Google continues to put more priority on it, and is indicating that it will influence rankings now and even more so in the future. This interesting topic came from eConsultancy in their article, “Semantic search: the future of search…
Read MoreNew and Better Access
Emerald Group Publishing has launched the Green Open Access, Zero Embargo trial applicable for all mandated articles submitted to the company’s library and information science (LIS) journals and to selected information and knowledge management journals. This interesting information came from Info Docket in their article, “Emerald Group Publishing Announces Library and Information Science Journals Green Open Access Trial.”…
Read MoreSearch No More
No matter how hard you work on creating content. No matter how valuable and helpful it is to you and your users. If it cannot be found, it might as well not exist. Findability of information is critical to success. You can learn more about how people search and find information at Enterprise Search Europe…
Read MoreIndexing History
In what feels timely but was actually an unplanned juxtaposition of events, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society launches a new project. This comes just days after a gunman claimed nine lives at an historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was built as a result of the abolitionist…
Read MoreFinding Critical Information
There is a lot going on in health care on the national level these days. Between the Affordable Care Act and the ICD-10 coding classification transition alone, the federal government’s chief health information officer, Michael McCoy, M.D., is a busy guy. But what is on his mind? What are his concerns? Health Leader’s Media brought this…
Read MoreThe Importance of Platforms
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique learning opportunity, titled “Platforms that Perform: Taking Your Content to the Next Level.” Your platform is important. It is the gateway to your content and has a direct impact on the findability of your data. With new platform innovations and user expectations moving…
Read MoreThe New Normal
The search engines of today are so powerful and so common that we assume that searches will provide our desired results in a matter of seconds. If we are forced to wait a few more seconds than normal, it feels archaic and clunky. Speed in search is important. Businesses acknowledge the importance of search to…
Read MoreBringing the Past to the Future
Going digital has many meanings, depending on the genre of data and on the type of business involved. For the Library of Congress, this is a pretty big deal. NPR brought this very interesting news to us in their article, “A Long Way From Wax Cylinders, Library Of Congress Slowly Joins The Digital Age.” The Library…
Read MoreFinding Relevance
Rovi Corporation introduced the industry’s lastest and some say most robust metadata product, Rovi Knowledge Graph.
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