Records Management Needs Standards
Alfresco and Active Navigation have begun a new technology partnership to tackle specific content challenges associated with record organization and retention.
August 2014
Making Content Findable is Key
By Melody Smith|August 7th, 20142014-08-06T20:19:56-04:00
Search tools are a researcher’s best technological tool to help them analyze, evaluate, and discover, since making content findable is key to progress.
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The Evolution of Search
By Melody Smith|August 6th, 20142014-08-05T22:12:05-04:00
Search has seen some dramatic changes in recent years, and most attribute that to semantic technology. It has become the normal expectation for users that a search engine would understand inference in natural language versus the query model used for so long.
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Consistency for Consumers
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 20142014-08-04T21:47:06-04:00
Under pressure from online retailers, those in the real world are finding the battle to stay relevant tough. Many, but not all, have decided to do a hybrid e-Commerce option to their walk-in point of sale. For some, the learning curve of e-Commerce is a bigger challenge than they are prepared to take on.
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The Size of the Data is the Challenge
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 20142014-08-04T21:39:45-04:00
Federal agencies manage on average 209 million records, or approximately 8.4 billion records for the entire federal government.
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Data Harmony Version 3.9 Shines a Spotlight On Inline Tagging Web-based Service Extension
By Melody Smith|August 4th, 20142014-08-03T16:17:20-04:00
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Data Harmony software line now includes inline tagging capability, beginning with Version 3.9, released earlier this year. Inline Tagging Feature In Data Harmony 3.9 Installations Employing inline tags, the TestMAI screen in the MAIstro™ module now displays matching content in a highlighted font when a Data Harmony user runs M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer), putting the focus on indexing concepts as they appear in the input text. XML elements are applied in the text at the exact location where a word or phrase triggered a term suggestion from the controlled vocabulary (taxonomy or thesaurus).
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History Just Got Bigger
By Melody Smith|August 4th, 20142014-08-03T16:15:41-04:00
EBSCO has increased the number of databases that are included in its policy for metadata sharing and technology collaboration partnerships with discovery vendors. A new total of 179 EBSCO full-text databases, as well as all 74 EBSCO full-text historical digital archives and all 550,000+ EBSCO eBooks will be available.
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Looking Closer at Data
By Melody Smith|August 1st, 20142014-07-31T20:31:39-04:00
Not all data is the same. We know this to be true. Sometimes there is just more to meet the eye, even if it is simple differences. For example, there is structured data and unstructured data.
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July 2014
Senate Bill Would Abolish the NTIS
By Melody Smith|July 31st, 20142014-07-30T22:24:53-04:00
In April, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate effectively would abolish the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). This organization was established in 1950 to collect scientific and technical reports and provide them to the public and to U.S. Government agencies.
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Search is Not a Luxury
By Melody Smith|July 30th, 20142014-07-29T20:56:58-04:00
Concept Searching and information governance are often seen together in articles and white papers. It is a popular topic, but a complicated one as well. Search is a key component of information governance and therein lies our interest on the topic.
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