Posts Tagged ‘Search’
Making the Best of a Relationship
Business intelligence and enterprise search are friends; maybe besties. Enterprise business intelligence is useless without the ability to index and search it. Computer Weekly brought this news to our attention in their article, “Beyond keywords: bringing initiative to enterprise search.” While we’ve moved past the team of librarians scouring through a basement full of card catalogs to…
Read MoreRecording History for Future Searchers
Recording history is just one use of indexing data, but it is a pretty important one. Seventy years after World War II and the Holocaust, contributors around the globe are indexing victims’ names through an online memorial that recently hit the 1 million mark in number of names. This interesting information came to us from USA Today…
Read MoreNew eLibrary from the United Nations
The United Nations has launched an electronic library – the first comprehensive global search, discovery, and dissemination platform for digital content created by the United Nations. To begin with, the United Nations iLibrary, launched by United Nations Publications, includes publications, journals and series comprising facts and expertise on international peace and security, human rights, economic…
Read MoreSearch and Find
An extensive, searchable digital archive of the design magazine Architectural Digest is now available from EBSCO Information Services. This interesting news came to us from Market Wired in their article, “EBSCO Information Services Introduces the Architectural Digest Magazine Archive.” The Architectural Digest Magazine Archive includes cover-to-cover access to issues of the design magazine from the 1920s to…
Read MoreMetadata’s Role
The word “metadata” has been spoken so many times in news reports over the past few years that it is surely now part of the collective public consciousness. But how well does the average American understand what metadata is and how it is used? This interesting question came to us from EdSurge in their article, “Making Sense of…
Read MoreSearching with Confidence
Search engine optimization (SEO) is possibly one of the most talked about subjects in the online marketing world. A huge aspect of this is tags. Whether it’s title tags, header tags, meta tags or blog post tags, they have proven to increase traffic and boost engagement. This information came from the Search Engine Journal in their article,…
Read MoreEmpowered Search
Ringgold recently announced that the 4.18 release of ScholarOne Manuscripts is now integrated in the Identify Database as an institutional authority file. Ringgold brought this news to our attention in their article, “ScholarOne Manuscripts now features Ringgold’s Identify Database for institutional affiliations.” A simple user interface enables ScholarOne’s robust application to enforce accuracy standards for the institutional…
Read MoreCollaboration Results in Better Access
A new strategic alliance was recently announced between Artstor and ITHAKA. This new partnership will benefit thousands of colleges, universities, schools, museums, and other educational institutions. This interesting information came to us from Library Technology in their article, “Alliance will enhance access to multimedia digital resources to support education and research.” Artstor, JSTOR and ITHAKA were all…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Works with ASCE to Launch New Civil Engineering Database
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE contracted Access Innovations in 2014 to begin transforming their corpus of civil engineering records from their existing relational database into an XML database. To do this, Access Innovations ingested nearly 250,000…
Read MoreLimerick Line-Up
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, some of our staff put together a few themed limericks (or the like) for your reading and enjoyment. There once was a group with no lists, Their content looked, said what’s this? So they contacted the experts Who made them one faster than the dirts. And now all their…
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