Access Insights

Calculating the ROI of Semantic Enrichment

We are often asked for help in calculating the potential return on investment (ROI) of investing in a taxonomy. How this calculation is done depends on the type of organization and who will be the users of the taxonomy. For any content-intensive organization, using a taxonomy increases findability, which in turn leads to greater utility and value for the organization’s content assets. Within the enterprise, this translates into hours and dollars saved by reducing the time required to find things, as well as the time and expense of redoing research or other work that can’t be found.

The Accidental Taxonomist by Heather Hedden Review

Review of Heather Hedden's recent book, The Accidental Tourist. Little has been published with a solid how-to approach to implementing thesaurus construction standards. This book fills that gap.

Open Source Database Claims to Slash Query Processing Time

By |June 14th, 2010|Autoindexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Open Source Database Claims to Slash Query Processing Time

Dramatically increased query speed with Ingres software - still need a good taxonomy structure.

Digging Deeper in Drupal’s Taxonomy

By |June 11th, 2010|Access Insights, Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on Digging Deeper in Drupal’s Taxonomy

Drupal fans can learn more about its capabilities.

Software Makes Enterprise Audio And Video Fully Searchable

By |June 9th, 2010|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Software Makes Enterprise Audio And Video Fully Searchable

Full text search for audio and video content.

Entertaining Video by Librarians Tells a Story

By |June 9th, 2010|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Entertaining Video by Librarians Tells a Story

Entertaining video also educates.