Search vs. Findability

It isn’t news that search has evolved dramatically over the past couple of years. Though many people still think of search as the white box in the corner of the page where users type in a term or phrase, we need of it as findability — ways that we can facilitate the user navigating and searching for the information they need.

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Findability is Key

With the extreme growth in data in every industry, whether it is healthcare, education or manufacturing, document imaging services are increasingly used in organizations to cope. With mammoth amounts of data, it is vital for industries to document the information methodically and develop a system that increases findability.

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EBSCO Chosen for Findability

Nanyang Technological University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), after an extensive trial process of many services, to enable findability of the library’s content from a single search box.

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Taxonomy and Search: Access Innovations’ Founder And Industry Pioneer Talks About Three Important Trends

During her 33 years in the search industry, Margie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, has seen a lot of trends come and go. Today’s changing information environment, with its ever-growing avalanche of data and critical need for better search and more efficient organization of content, presents some unique challenges.

Hlava recently shared her views with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst who has more than 30 years of experience, as part of his Search Wizards Speak series. Access Innovations, Hlava’s company, is releasing an excerpt of the interview.

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IBM Joins the Cloud Games

Look for IBM to roll out a set of cloud-based backup services designed to help organizations save, archive and restore data after a system failure or disaster. Known as the SmartCloud Resilience services, they complement IBM’s SmartCloud Managed Backup. The offering consists of a physical and virtual server recovery service that constantly backs up an organization’s applications and related data on IBM’s secure cloud infrastructure.

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MetaVis Information Manager Makes SharePoint 2010 Information Findable

MetaVis Information Manager for SharePoint 2010 has been released, which lets users bulk import, copy, and classify content directly from the SharePoint user interface. This is a easy process for users as Information Manager is embedded directly into the SharePoint 2010 ribbon. Now classifying, uploading, and copying is easy and familiar since SharePoint users can even copy between different SharePoint sites, lists, libraries and File Shares.

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Taxonomies Should Not Be Postponed

WorthPoint is a known provider of valuation and associated services for art, antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint Forums provide access to expert options and debates regarding the world of collecting. Together, they are integrated with the company’s price guide, Worthopedia, which contains over 90 million items. With that volume of content, a taxonomy is definitely in order.

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Findability is a Worthy Goal

VirtualWorks Group was just launched by Citrix co-founder, along with a team of techie executives. Their product is an innovative enterprise framework, the Virtual Index Architecture (VIA). This indexes all types of data and virtualizes the content.

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