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Russian Search Engine Moving Into Semantic Technology
Russian search engine, Yandex, rolled out a new feature recently that aims to make its search experience seem a lot more intelligent. Sounds a bit like semantics to us.
Read MoreNew Agreement Ensures Access to Digital Information
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) have made an agreement ensuring long term access to the digital scientific, technical, and engineering information (STEI) collected by NTIS.
Read MoreAdopting Standards Takes Time, Unfortunately
Rumor has it the Open Group’s SOA Work Group intends the new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Ontology Technical Standard to be a semantic foundation for SOA terms and concepts.
Read MoreOnBase 10.0 Content Management Released
Hyland Software has released OnBase 10.0, offering enterprise content management capabilities in case-management areas such as healthcare patient records and insurance claims.
Read MoreSearching Online for Recipes in Cookbooks You Own
A new website Eat Your Books helps members search for recipes in their own cookbooks. Eat Your Books is aimed at people who love using cookbooks, but desires the ease and convenience of searching online.
Read MoreSearching Extreme Amounts of e-Data a Challenge
How many electronic records does it take before it becomes unsearchable? During a hearing last December, defense lawyers argued that the extreme amount of electronic data provided — the equivalent of 8,000 to 10,000 boxes of paper — was so mammoth and disorganized that it couldn’t be effectively searched for information that might help the defendants. In a ruling afterward, the judge agreed, ordering the prosecution to “re-disclose” any relevant material in a more organized fashion.
Read MoreGood Taxonomy is Key to Effective Search
Speakers at the Enterprise Search Summit, held November 16-18 in Washington, D.C., united in expressing the opinion that effective search is not a challenge that can be met by technology alone.
Read MoreMeta Tagging and Google – A Match Made Where?
Google’s new news meta tagging scheme is being questioned by some for its brilliance and potential success. Though they appreciate the intent to distinguish between syndicated and non-syndicated content, they worry that the meta tags are clunky and therefore likely to be used to work the web.
Read MoreGet Your Ducks in a Row
Duckduckgo.com is not just another search engine that displays results from other sites, such as Google´s, Bing´s etc. Instead, it concentrates its effort in ranking those results in a different, user friendly and plural way.
Read MoreSemantic Technology in Travel
UpTake Networks has acquired social hotel recommendation site, Real Travel. Combine this with their semantic search engine designed to help travelers research and decide where to go, where to stay and what to do, the online travel research experience is accelerated.
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