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October 2013
The Semantics of Search
By Melody Smith|October 17th, 20132013-10-16T21:31:10-04:00
Search has been morphing with regard to how you approach it, use it, and refer to it for some time now. Enter search engine optimization efforts and the focus or goal of search changed. Then came semantic search, which has changed the game even more. This interesting topic came from Forbes in their article, “Search Is Dead… Long Live Search!”
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The Power of Google+
By Melody Smith|October 16th, 20132013-10-14T20:45:54-04:00
A recent study by Stone Temple Consulting on whether or not Google + shares alone can affect search engine rank. This seems a little precise for a study, but they took three websites and had two unique pages of applicable content published on each. One was a control page and one was a test page. Next , they had Google+ influencers share the page, as well as a handful of other participants who were instructed to only share the page, not visit or link to it in any other way.
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Growing the Crowd
By Melody Smith|October 16th, 20132013-10-14T20:44:03-04:00
CrowdSource works with national clients such as BazaarVoice, Citysearch, Dictionary.com, and ToysRUs, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they have recently launched Transcribe.com, which adds audio and video transcription solutions to its list of managed crowdsourcing solutions. This interesting news was found on Digital Journal in their article, “CrowdSource Expands With Launch of Crowd-Powered Transcription Company.”
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Working Together Can Enhance the Results
By Melody Smith|October 15th, 20132013-10-15T22:33:04-04:00
Pingar has strengthened its SharePoint solution portfolio with the release of the enhanced Pingar Metadata Extractor for SharePoint 2013. This allows enterprises to run bulk entity extraction seamlessly in the background, eliminating the need to train staff how to meta-tag documents.
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Capturing Catholic History
By Melody Smith|October 15th, 20132013-10-15T22:31:42-04:00
The Church of the Latter Day Saints are notorious for their genealogy, archiving, and indexing of familial and church history. Now the Catholic church is in the business of preserving history digitally, at least in one archdiocese. The new director of the archdiocesan Office of Archives and Records, Claire Galloway Jenkins, arrived recently at the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, ready to get started.
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The Zombies Are Coming
By Melody Smith|October 14th, 20132013-10-13T20:33:56-04:00
Halloween is approaching fast, and unlike most zombies, we here at Access Innovations wanted to be sure we are ready for the hordes of zombies bound to be knocking down our doors on October 31st. Are you ready? If you’re not, never fear. We created a very unique tool to help you keep your head (pun intended) during the zombie apocalypse: a zombie taxonomy.
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Ready Set Go
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 20132013-10-10T22:36:38-04:00
The key to a successful SharePoint implementation from a content management point of view is metadata. Metadata management should be a tier one priority […]
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UDC Seminar Scheduled for This Month
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 20132013-10-10T22:35:46-04:00
The next International Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) Seminar entitled "Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on October 24-25, 2013 in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at The Hague. This is the fourth in a series of International UDC Seminars devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment.
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European Project Opens Code
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 20132013-10-10T22:34:34-04:00
The EU's "digital.me" project is a multiple-partner project to develop a system for user-controlled social networks and services that can serve as a central hub for managing a user's various digital identities. This big news is they have now released the source code from its software development work as an open-source project.
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