From Taxonomy to Thesaurus
Nowadays, taxonomy and thesaurus often are used interchangeably. Indeed, we can consider a hierarchical thesaurus (which most are these days) as a fancy taxonomy. In either case, we use the controlled vocabulary for the indexing and retrieval. The hierarchical array is for our convenience for either navigating the collection when we are searching or for organizing the terms.
Read MoreIntegration Made Easier with SharePoint and Some Magic
Magic Software has announced that Microsoft partners are now eligible for a SpeedTrack Authorization Program to offer the iBOLT integration platform for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This means companies deploying these systems can use Magic Software’s iBOLT Integration for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to share information through their SharePoint 2010 deployment.
Read MoreSome SPARQL in Your Life
SPARQL is a protocol and query language for the Semantic Web and the Open Geospatial Consortium is seeking public comment on the candidate OGC “GeoSPARQL: A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data” Standard. The candidate OGC GeoSPARQL standard defines spatial extensions to the W3C’s SPARQL protocol and RDF query language.
Read MoreLibraries Could Have Their Own sTLD
ICANN is again broadening opportunities to create new gTLDs to include sTLDs. The policy liberalizes the process for creation of new gTLDs. This brings about support and concern for an unlimited number of gTLDs and potential URLs.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Improving Workflow
FirstRain has launched a set of enhancements designed to simplify the experience of monitoring your company, industry, competitors and investments. Focusing on two major areas: role-based workflow improvements and mobile app availability, this newest release delivers a new level of simple yet effective intelligence integration into the daily workflow of sales, marketing and finance professionals.
Read MoreFlexible Technology is the Key
Enterprise content management (ECM) software needs to be as flexible as any other technology on the market. Hyland Software’s ECM solution, OnBase, is a good example of this with their expanded core functionality of intelligent imaging and capture, and a platform that can be leveraged for building data-driven applications. Add to that the increasing opportunities for it to be offered in a mobile-enabled environment.
Read MoreLet’s Play
Microtask, a Finnish company, attempted a new approach in the digitization effort of the National Library of Finland. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, the method through which scanned documents are converted from image to searchable text, can be prone to errors which can affect accuracy and indexing. Unfortunately, these mistakes can only be corrected by human hands and that is a time consuming task.
Read MoreNew Database Uses Colorful Taxonomy
Leadership Directories has branched out into health care with Health Focus, its first online database covering a particular industry. Health Focus holds information on 150,000 leaders and 8,000 organizations across the U.S. health care industry.
Read MoreNew Versions Available for Lucene Core and Solr
New versions of Lucene Core – Java-based indexing and search tool formerly known as Lucene Java – and Solr – an enterprise search server – are now available from the Apache Lucene project.
Read MoreTaxonomy Webinar Series – First One is Today
The SLA Taxonomy Division is presenting a webinar series –
Leveraging Your Taxonomy – starting today and continuing 6 sessions on the second Wednesday of each month through December.