New Partnership Aims to Improve Findability
Cable One is partnering with Synacor for the launch of its TV Everywhere services and customer Web portal.
Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 9
As we continue the series on search, we are close to wrapping up with a more in-depth look behind the scenes of database management systems. Let’s take a quick look at behind the scenes. We want to connect the database management system to the thesaurus tool so that we can validate the terms and make sure that they are in good shape and, as people are adding records to the database, if they have any suggestions or candidates, we want to lock those in as well. The thesaurus tool will tell you which terms are actually correct, allow you to add, change, and delete, and otherwise manage the term base. Then the indexing is used to actually suggest indexing terms to records as they are loaded to the database management system. That system can be SharePoint, it could be a content management system, it could be a Documentum or a FileNet, or any other thing you want to use as a repository to manage your data. That is driven by the taxonomy.
New Book Addresses Ontologies
Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century" traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.
Explaining Taxonomies
Explaining a taxonomy as a "knowledge organization system," our very own Margie Hlava explains how they are used to control the use of terms used in a subject field into a "vocabulary" to facilitate the storing and retrieving of items from a repository.
Apple Acquires Mobile Application Company
Apple has acquired mobile application company, Chomp. Their feature product is an app for searching the iOS App Store in clever ways. Chomp’s app uses a “proprietary algorithm” that learns the functions and topic of apps. This semantic-like technology helps users search for apps based on their true functionality, not just their names. The app offers app browsing by unique categories that don’t exist within the App Store’s own taxonomy.
Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 7
This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Next let’s look at an inverted file index, let’s pretend that this is the outline of the presentation. I have Define Key Terminology, Thesaurus Tools, Functions, Features, Class, Construction of the Thesaurus etc in the figure below. You can see that the word “Thesaurus” is used three times here. I have a number of other words that you might focus on to see where they are. If I am going to take these and make them into an inverted file, the simple inverted file index is just going to take them and make them into an alphabetic list. So it will sort the high ASCII characters first – the special characters and the numbers – and then it will sort the rest of them alphabetically.
Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6
This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Last week we ended with natural language processing and we are picking up this week on automatic language processing or ALP.
Smart Search Equals Smart Content
Medical search engine and database tools aren’t all equal. Depending on your needs, a clinician could gain access to dynamic data to diagnose and treat patients must faster than ever before. One of these options is ClinicalKey, which is now in beta testing.
Complex Queries Made Simple
Oracle has announced it has updated the MySQL Cluster software. The result should make it more attractive to large Web service providers. Two features […]
Managing Data
Managing information has been an issue since the dawn of time. Juggling rocks, etchings, parchments, paper, floppy disks and now metabytes are really all part of the same challenge. Where to put it, how to find it and what does it mean? The advantage we have today is there are plenty of software options to assist in these tasks. There are also guidelines and standards that allow users to manage their ever precious content with consistency and skill.