Indexing Giant Re-Opens Genealogy Center
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has announced the re-opening of the Family History Center located in Lawton, Oklahoma. Genealogy has always been encouraged by the Church and the Family History Library maintains the world’s largest collection of microfilmed genealogical records in the world and has made it all digital.
Read MoreEnhancing the Search Results
Ixxus is contributing a new tool which integrates the faceted search capabilities of Apache Solr into Alfresco 4. CMS Critic brought this news to our attention in their article, “New Alfresco Faceted Search by Ixxus Delivers Enhanced Enterprise Content Search.” This new addition will assist Alfresco in fulfilling the ‘Smart Search’ requirements of its 2012 Product Road Map. Other benefits will include enhanced functionality and discoverability using metadata-driven; faceted searching. The new faceted base search will greatly improve the discoverability of content and search results.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Partners with SPIE on New Taxonomy
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has partnered with Access Innovations, a leading firm in semantic enrichment, on a new, cutting edge taxonomy in optics and photonics. Currently in use on SPIE’s websites, SPIE.org and the SPIE Digital Library, the taxonomy provides the basis for topically focused searching and browsing the most relevant SPIE content from the society’s journals, proceedings papers, and eBooks.
Read MoreDocument Management Education
It continues to be a challenge, but managing enterprise content has earned itself special focus in the educational and training arena. Nokusa Engineering Informatics (NokusaEI) is introducing a new series of AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) training programs in South Africa.
Read MoreSemantic Content Enrichment Chosen
Berlin publisher De Gruyter has chosen a semantic content enrichment platform from Temis. Luxid, their premier product, works to ensure smooth delivery of content.
Read MoreSemantic Search Product Wins Award
HR Executive magazine editors recognized SeeMore as one fo the top products of 2012. SeeMore is the first cloud-based semantic search and analytics recruiting platform, used by the online job matching site, Monster.
Read MoreInformation inefficiency across the enterprise – Index shows no sector has found a definitive solution
Information is at the heart of what most enterprises do. For some it is their product and lifeblood; for others it lubricates all aspects of their operation. The fact is that, in one form or another, information management is vital for virtually any organisation, particularly as tough economic conditions prevail, and the more efficiently enterprise content is controlled and accessed, the more effective organizations’ operations become. After all, we all operate in an ‘information economy’ these days.
Read MoreMerging Art and Data
Harnessing the power of art, the Public Art Program of Albuquerque, New Mexico has been funding city-wide art on fire stations, libraries, and parks, with more than 650 pieces scattered across the city. Dynamic sculptures and murals on city buildings may please the eye, but they can also motivate the community. This interesting and local, at least…
Read MoreOpen Source Project Moves Closer to Completion
The Apache Software Foundation recently announced that Apache Stanbol is moving on up in the project status. Stanbol is an open source Java stack designed to interface with a content management system enhanced with semantic information.
Read MoreMobile Upgrade Broadens Horizons
Are you familiar with T-Mobile’s Genius button? When pushed, it allows you to issue basic voice commands from calling or texting a contact to searching the web or Google Maps. Observers would say it was like Siri, but most users would disagree.
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