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Taxonomy and Search: Access Innovations’ Founder And Industry Pioneer Talks About Three Important Trends
During her 33 years in the search industry, Margie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, has seen a lot of trends come and go. Today’s changing information environment, with its ever-growing avalanche of data and critical need for better search and more efficient organization of content, presents some unique challenges.
Hlava recently shared her views with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst who has more than 30 years of experience, as part of his Search Wizards Speak series. Access Innovations, Hlava’s company, is releasing an excerpt of the interview.
Read MoreLet’s Play
Microtask, a Finnish company, attempted a new approach in the digitization effort of the National Library of Finland. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, the method through which scanned documents are converted from image to searchable text, can be prone to errors which can affect accuracy and indexing. Unfortunately, these mistakes can only be corrected by human hands and that is a time consuming task.
Read MoreNew Versions Available for Lucene Core and Solr
New versions of Lucene Core – Java-based indexing and search tool formerly known as Lucene Java – and Solr – an enterprise search server – are now available from the Apache Lucene project.
Read MoreElsevier Releases New Tool
Elsevier has released a new tool within its management solution SciVal Experts. This new tool seamlessly links opportunities with SciVal Funding, which is their funding intelligence solution delivering targeted recommendations for funding opportunities and providing suggestions regarding potential collaborators for awards.
Read MoreExpertusONE Feature Set Released
Expertus has released an updated feature set for its ExpertusONE product focused on training channel partners. ExpertusONE is the first learning platform to offer a broad range of learning, collaboration and knowledge access tools for a dispersed sales staff.
Read MoreIBM Joins the Cloud Games
Look for IBM to roll out a set of cloud-based backup services designed to help organizations save, archive and restore data after a system failure or disaster. Known as the SmartCloud Resilience services, they complement IBM’s SmartCloud Managed Backup. The offering consists of a physical and virtual server recovery service that constantly backs up an organization’s applications and related data on IBM’s secure cloud infrastructure.
Read MoreVoice Recognition Technology Continues to Evolve
It seems with mobile phones these days, smaller is better. But with the size decreasing, finding the information you need becomes a challenge. Never fear, there is a new technology emerging that helps users find information without having to fiddle with tiny keyboards or have blisters due to scrolling over and over. This new technology is voice search.
Read MoreCaringo and Perfect Search Form Partnerships for Mutual Customers
Caringo, known for providing object storage software for digital content, has announced a partnership with Perfect Search to provide mutual customers with a solution for the precise search of objects stored in Caringo object storage software (CAStor).
Read MoreOxford Medicine Online Launches New Resource
Oxford Medicine Online has launched Oxford Medical Libraries Online, a new resource that offers a collection of subject-based libraries containing over 50 invaluable short guides.
Read MoreGoogle and Bing Back At It
Only a few months after accusing Microsoft’s Bing of copying their search results, Google was found to be indexing millions of image thumbnails from Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
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