By Melody Smith|October 12th, 20102010-10-12T11:53:52-04:00
Things have been changing in the global publishing industry. Some are obvious, but many of the underlying trends are more subtle and relate to the changing audience and their behaviors, i.e. usage patterns. This is referred to as "Audience 2.0." Publishers are looking for ways to react to the current changes in the media industry and position themselves as long-term survivors and leaders.
By Melody Smith|October 12th, 20102010-10-11T12:01:28-04:00
Knowledge locked within public and proprietary data will now be easier to share thanks to a new platform called Elsevier SciVerse. NextBio, the provider, has touted this as an innovative new platform that integrates Elsevier's key products and encourages those in the scientific community to share and collaborate on the development search and discovery applications.
By Melody Smith|October 12th, 20102010-10-12T11:50:30-04:00
Identifying on-site content duplication when you have thousands of pages on your site is not a walk in the park. It isn’t just copy you need to be concerned with, title elements and metatagging should be considered as well.
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 20102010-10-11T11:59:09-04:00
Everyone has seen the commercial on television. Someone asks a simple question, and then everyone in the crowd starts spewing forth all these facts that have been found via the Internet. This makes for some very clever and funny advertising, but let’s face it. Information overload is a real problem.
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 20102010-10-11T11:57:56-04:00
Meta tags have been around since the beginning of this thing we call the Internet. We all know how it works, write an article promoting a business, product, etc. and if the just right amount of keywords are sprinkled throughout, kaboom your page has a high ranking. The higher the better, but there is a fine line.
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 20102010-10-11T11:53:20-04:00
October 11, 2010 – You’ve just read the title and already there is trouble. “Classified” has multiple uses. What is meant here? When discussing […]
By Melody Smith|October 8th, 20102010-10-08T11:45:22-04:00
Integrity Consulting has partnered with the University of Maryland’s QUEST program. Together with QUEST, Integrity is building a social media platform that will provide a community of collaboration and communication for Emergency Management and Homeland Security professionals.
By Melody Smith|October 8th, 20102010-10-08T11:42:07-04:00
IE as in Information Extraction, not the other one, is defined in the book Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems, John Davies, Rudi Studer, and Paul Warren define this type of IE as “a technology based on analyzing natural language in order to extract snippets of information.”
By Melody Smith|October 8th, 20102010-10-07T11:41:57-04:00
10gen is dedicated an entire day event to the high-performance “NoSQL” document-oriented database. If 10gen sounds familiar, they are the company behind the open source MongoDB project. This is the tenth conference 10gen has organized on MongoDB, and will be the largest MongoDB event of the year.
By Melody Smith|October 7th, 20102010-10-07T11:36:51-04:00
A group of leading crowdsourcing companies has joined forces to create a trade organization the Crowdsortium, to serve as a resource to crowdsourcing funders, practitioners, customers, researchers and eventually the crowd themselves. This goal is accomplished through best practices, education, data collection, advocacy and public dialogue.
