By Melody Smith|December 17th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Dynamic Infrastructure Increases Findability
An effort to develop an information architecture that supports electronic practice-based research networks has been started jointly by the United Staes and Britain. This enables the linking of separate electronic health record systems and provides a foundation for software development.
By Melody Smith|December 12th, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on New Databases Added
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has added three anthropology databases to the EBSCOhost® platform. The three databases are Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature, and Anthropology Plus, that obviously cover the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research.
By Melody Smith|December 10th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata|Comments Off on A Look at Markup Languages
The most frequently used markup languages these days are those of the SGML family: SGML, HTML, and XML. Information professionals are likely to encounter all three fairly often.
By Melody Smith|December 10th, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on SharePoint and Search
Concept Searching recently announced that its core products – conceptSearch and conceptClassifier – are prepared for SharePoint 2013.
By Melody Smith|November 30th, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Managing Our Data
Each and every day we create metadata in our emails, texts, Word documents, spreadsheets, and more. When you multiply that by the five billion people in the world, well, you get the picture. Human-generated content is growing by the second. How do we manage it? How do we search it?
By Melody Smith|November 28th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Provides Opportunities
Data is everywhere: on the Web, within an enterprise, in both closed and open academic communities, across every technological field or surface available. The Hindu brought this information to our attention in their article, “Connecting the dots, lucratively.” The frequency and availability of data provide an opportunity for analytics, and analytics can provide perspective.
By Melody Smith|November 13th, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Partnering for Powerful Search
A new partnership between Concept Searching and Triune Group will result in an integrated intelligent search and classification capability. Triune Group has integrated its knowledge management expertise and technology solutions with Concept Searching’s intelligent search and classification capability.
By Melody Smith|November 5th, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Additional Data Added to Databases
The Library & Information Science Source is now available from EBSCO Publishing and that should make some librarians and researchers very happy.
By Melody Smith|November 2nd, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on SharePoint Can Make A Difference
Many users complain that SharePoint, even with its great features, has just become another file share option. However, the primary difference is its potential. SharePoint adds many benefits that file shares just can’t provide, including retention policies, taxonomy and metadata, and much more.
By Melody Smith|October 30th, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Enhancing the Search Results
Ixxus is contributing a new tool which integrates the faceted search capabilities of Apache Solr into Alfresco 4. CMS Critic brought this news to our attention in their article, "New Alfresco Faceted Search by Ixxus Delivers Enhanced Enterprise Content Search." This new addition will assist Alfresco in fulfilling the ‘Smart Search’ requirements of its 2012 Product Road Map. Other benefits will include enhanced functionality and discoverability using metadata-driven; faceted searching. The new faceted base search will greatly improve the discoverability of content and search results.