Vision is key to succeeding but difficult to obtain if you have been in the lead from the beginning. There is power in seeing the backs of your competitors. It drives you to compete and win. But always seeing the finish line with a clear view can be deceptive.
A large collection of court records from the late 1800s are being converted into digital files by New Perspectives Inc. (NPI). Creating digital files that can be indexed, searched and accessed is an honorable task. The benefit here is that the employees hired by NPI are individuals with physical impairments that are learning job skills that will help them make a future for themselves.
Instem has released version 8.4 of its Sequence Retrieval System (SRS). This data integration platform is scalable and used in over 300 sites, both commercial and academic. Version 8.4 includes support for indexing data using Apache Lucene technology. Geeks World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Instem Releases Next Version of SRS Data Integration Platform.”
The possibilities and limitations of semantic search are often discussed as more and more enterprises and applications utilize the technology. Research on the subject as grown almost as fast as the technology itself. Semantic search research is often based on large and rich data sets and a combination of techniques.
A new joint initiative launched by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will help researchers have access to improved metadata and new tools as they search through and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American National Election Studies (ANES). The two-year project, named Metadata Portal for the Social Sciences, is supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Alexander Street Press has updated its search interface with semantic facet browsing or more commonly known as an algorithm to identify categories of interest from a single keyword. With this new feature, results are returned pertaining to the keyword even if the keyword is not in the title of the resource.
Recently, Coveo announced that its advanced search application, Coveo for Salesforce, is now available on the Salesforce.com AppExchange. This product enables instant indexing of Salesforce Knowledge, SharePoint Online (Beta Connector) and Chatter Answers.
Semantic technology is weaving its way through every part of our lives. It assists in creating dynamic and comprehensive search results by using natural language processing to determine the meaning and context, just not the words in a search field. Now Google is taking semantic search into the social media world. The social activity adds another level of context on the premise that the most desirable product is the one that is usually talked about the most.
The web changes daily and how we are or aren't changing with it is the topic of an interesting discussion brought to us by Balkans Business News. The article titled, "David Amerland - Helpmyseo.com Founder, SEO / Social Media Consultant, and Author of Google Semantic Search", used a question and answer format to discuss the semantic web and what it means for the world of technology.
Provider of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy managment sofware, Concept Searching, is celebrating a revenue growth of 40% for the first half of fiscal 2013. This is compared to the same period in 2012.