June 2014

Spreading like Wildfire

By |June 13th, 2014

Who would have guessed as little as ten years ago that social media sites would account for massive amounts of traffic on the internet? And it keeps growing. How long before it surpasses search as a driver of traffic?

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Making Content More Findable

By |June 13th, 2014

Metaome Science Informatics has announced the launch of DistilBio Enterprise - a knowledge discovery and exploration platform for the life sciences.

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Preventing Damage Before it Starts

By |June 12th, 2014

Malware is the bane of any user's existence. It harms everyone from the most naive to the competent techy guru.

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Key Components

By |June 12th, 2014

Search engines are determined to provide users with as much information as possible. Some companies are forming strategic partnerships to create rich search results for better user experience.

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Records Management Requires Consistency

By |June 11th, 2014

Pittsburgh-based Business Records Management LLC (BRM) has acquired the assets of ABC Mobile Shredding Inc. This marks the fifth purchase by BRM in four years. This somewhat ironic combination of services does have commonality and merging a vendor into an organization can be smart business strategy.

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Webinar Addresses Social Networking in SharePoint

By |June 10th, 2014

Concept Searching and Protiviti are co-sponsoring the webinar "Collaboration and Social Networking in SharePoint and Office 365" on June 24th at 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT.

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Blind Alleys, Dead Ends, and Mazes

By |June 9th, 2014

Taxonomies can be displayed in a variety of ways. One of the display types that we occasionally see is known as the flat format display. It’s described in the main U.S. standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, published by the National Information Standards Organization.

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Marco? Polo!

By |June 9th, 2014

Making content findable by users has become easier and more intuitive through semantic search, a technique used to determine the actual intent and contextual meaning for the keywords that a person types into a search engine. It works on the principles of language and is based on the context, substance, and intent and concept of the search phrase. Semantic search can also incorporate location, synonyms of a term, current trends, and other natural language elements as part of the search.

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