Posts Tagged ‘Search’
Predicting Behavior
We have all experienced it. You are browsing a retail website but you don’t purchase anything. Later, the same day or after a week, you are on Facebook or another non-retail website and the ads that pop up in your feed or on the side are the exact items you were pondering to purchase. No,…
Read MoreWorking With Librarians
Library budgets continue to shrink but expectations remain the same, or even increase. Librarians and information professionals are forced to get creative. This interesting information came to us from Talking New Media in their article, “Cambridge University Press embarks on project to improve discoverability of library resources.” Cambridge University Press has embarked on a huge project to improve…
Read MoreWorking as a Team
A solid taxonomy is the foundation of content system that wants to make findability easy and thorough. Metadata and taxonomy work together for the best results. This information came to us from Video Ink in their article, “A Publisher’s Guide to the Best Video Taxonomy.” Metadata has become one of the most important components of content management. Working…
Read MoreDigging Deep
We live in a data-rich world where organizations, governments and individuals can analyze anything and everything. At present, the most easily indexed material from the web is text. Unfortunately, anywhere from 89 to 96 percent of the content on the internet is actually something else, like images, video, audio, etc. and in every file type imaginable. This interesting information…
Read MoreWorldwide Business with kathy ireland® Interviews Access Innovations and Discusses Their Unique Solution for Finding Relevant Information Quickly and Easily
Tune in to Bloomberg International on Sunday, January 29, 2017. Access Innovations President Marjorie M.K. Hlava and Vice President of Marketing and Communications Heather Kotula are featured on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. The segment’s topic is how businesses can make their data more searchable and more easily found. Access Innovations is…
Read MoreTechnology in 2017
2017 promises to be an interesting arena for media technology. Incumbents and newbies both are predicted to challenge industry trends in an effort to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and maximize revenues. CXO Today brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Top Technologies Shaping Media & Entertainment.” One area where this will be very prevalent…
Read MoreSearching with Semantic Technology
We humans by nature don’t like long lists of things. Our brains get easily overwhelmed and, as cognitive misers, we prefer fewer options, shorter sentences and paragraphs, etc. Psychological research shows that humans can only parse seven plus or minus two things at a time—words in a sentence, sentences in a paragraph, menu items, etc. This…
Read MoreArchiving the Past for the Future
1.2 million volunteers worldwide contribute to the FamilySearch indexing program, which brings billions of historical records to life. NewsOK out of Oklahoma brought this information to our attention in their article, “Indexing projects make family records more accessible.” FamilySearch is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its web-based, volunteer-driven indexing initiative. Every week, FamilySearch publishes millions of…
Read MoreWorldwide Business with kathy ireland® Interviews Access Innovations and Discusses Their Unique Solution for Finding Relevant Information Quickly and Easily
Access Innovations President Marjorie M.K. Hlava and Vice President of Marketing and Communications Heather Kotula are featured on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. The segment’s topic is how businesses can make their data more searchable and more easily found. Access Innovations is a thought leader dedicated to enriching information assets. The company…
Read MoreSearch Games
When I was a kid I used to love playing Mad Libs. My friends and I would work tirelessly to come up with the funniest nonsensical stories. While not quite as cognitive as Mad Libs, but still entertaining, are the various games going around social media involving predictive text. One game is a weird version…
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