Taxodiary – Findability

All Resources Are Not Created Equal

By Melody Smith|May 14th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on All Resources Are Not Created Equal

Companies manage content through enterprise content management (ECM) tools to communicate and collaborate more easily, share information, and make it easier to locate because information is saved in a central location. However, not all ECM tools meet all of an organization’s needs. It is important to identify what those needs are and evaluate the components of each tool to find the best match. A recent report outlined the target strengths and evaluated various technological offerings.

Achieving True Findability Requires Standards

By Melody Smith|April 23rd, 2014|News, search, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Achieving True Findability Requires Standards

WAND has launched its WAND Taxonomy Library Portal that provides resources for companies who are developing a taxonomy strategy by giving access to more than 100,000 pre-built taxonomy concepts developed by experts.

Search – Tout de Suite

By Melody Smith|April 16th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Search – Tout de Suite

A French search engine, Yatedo, has transformed its user experience by implementing CDNetworks’ Web Content Acceleration service. Based on their innovative technology, using semantics, phonetics, and a streamlined interface, Yatedo can distinguish between homonyms and present search results as profiles.

The Social Powers

By Melody Smith|March 28th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on The Social Powers

Yandex has announced that it is adding public Facebook data to the index of data mined for queries handled by the Russian Internet search company.

Measures to Findability

By Melody Smith|March 5th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Measures to Findability

Digital asset management (DAM) is one of those things that confuses people, which discourages them from addressing it. Kind of like those tasks we all put off until we can no longer justify ignoring them. DAM brings with it extra policy, added expenses, and more required training for an already overloaded staff. So why do we do it?

Streamlining Findability

By Melody Smith|February 28th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Streamlining Findability

Processes like e-discovery are time-consuming and costly. No one likes paying lawyers $500 an hour to retrieve documents rather than build your company’s defenses. A proactive records management strategy can make information governance central.

Achieving Findability

By Melody Smith|February 25th, 2014|indexing, News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Achieving Findability

Xerox was chosen by the Department of Homeland Security to convert the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ records to digital form.

Surfing the Change

By Melody Smith|February 6th, 2014|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on Surfing the Change

Change is constant, but never more than in the world of technology. This is why it is no surprise that InfoDesk has realigned its Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions to meet these changes.

Proper Findability

By Melody Smith|January 28th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Proper Findability

Metago has released an update that allows indexing with ASTRO Cloud & File Manager. This new feature works on content found on mobile devices, tablets, in the cloud or on networked platforms, and it all happens invisibly to the user.

Keep It Real

By Melody Smith|January 23rd, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Keep It Real

Search engine optimization used to be about writing relevant content and then reinforcing that with links. This approach was geared specifically for keyword searches. However, in this world of semantic search, that is no longer enough. This interesting topic came from the blog, Net Elixir, in their post, "Semantic Search: The Present State and a Look to the Future."