The Search for Machine-Aided Indexing: Why a Rule-Based System is the Cost-Effective Choice
by Larry Compton Executive summary Data Harmony is one of several companies that offer machine-aided indexing software solutions to indexing and categorizing unstructured data. Data Harmony’s Machine Aided Indexer™ is a rule-based system, whereas most of our competitors use methods that are a combination of linguistic or statistical approaches to indexing data. Many of our…
Read MoreAutomatic Indexing Return on Investment (ROI)
A Case Study Comparison of Rule Base and Statistical Approaches by Marjorie M.K. Hlava There is a lot of confusion in the marketplace. Word is out that rule bases take a lot of up front investment. Concurrence systems advertise a purely programmatic solution and appeal to many IT professionals. What is the real up front…
Read MoreFacets Help Move from Search to Found
by Alice Redmond-Neal, Chief Taxonomist, Access Innovations, Inc. In the “everything old is new again” department, facets are all the rage in the taxonomy world! What are facets, where did they come from, and how do they relate to familiar taxonomies and other search support strategies? What are facets? Facets are terms that describe some…
Read MoreClassified Homeland Security: Transforming Data into Information
by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO, Access Innovations, Inc. Originally published in Intelligence & Warning America Table of Contents Velocity, Volume, and Variety Taxonomic Control BUYIN – GET IT Taxonomic Strategy Taxonomy – Build It Taxonomy – Deploy It Maintenance and Training – Keep It Up Search and Find You’ve just read the title and…
Read MoreBridging the Great Indexing Divide
by Alice Redmond-Neal Reprinted from Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society for Indexing I’ve been indexing for over a decade, but when I attended the ASI Annual Meeting 2008 in Denver, I was a stranger in a strange land. Being surrounded by indexers was intriguing yet confounding. You see, I come from the…
Read MoreAutomatic Indexing: How Two Approaches Compare
Understanding “Rule Based” vs. “Statistics Based” Indexing Systems by Marjorie M.K. Hlava reprinted from Information Outlook with permission It’s never been more fascinating—or more challenging—to be an information professional. Surveys show that corporate librarians have more information to manage, and less staff to help manage it, than ever before. Not only is the universe of…
Read MoreThe Strategic Business Value of a Well-Constructed Taxonomy
By Bert Carelli An organization’s website is today the primary strategic tool not only for delivering information and promoting its scholarly mission, but also for developing and maintaining relationships with and among its members and the larger scholarly community. A unified semantic strategy is the best way of bringing together all elements of that mission…
Read MoreJumo Seeks Connections for Nonprofits
December 8, 2010 – We knew this was coming. They’ve talked about it for months. An online community for nonprofits and charitable organizations – or more specifically, the people with and interested in those organizations. Jumo is the brainchild of Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook and the chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s…
Read MoreNew Local Discovery Service
WHERE, Inc., has launched its new local discovery service, making it easy to find the right places to eat, drink or play by offering personalized recommendations and high-quality guides from local experts.
Read MoreDatabase of Chemicals Creates Community
Chemists have hundreds of data sources online covering tens of millions of different chemical compounds. Unfortunately accessing that online data has not always been easy. ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, may have solved that problem.
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