Azavea, a geospatial data analysis software company, has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to create a web-based historical mapping system that will enable geographic indexing of historical documents. The software is designed to support a wide range of government, commercial, academic and other research projects.
Ontology Systems has launched a partner program aimed at recruiting data integration specialists. Ontology specializes in semantic search technology, so the specialists they are seeking need to be experienced with this game-changing technology. This interesting information was found on Channel Pro in their article, "Ontology kicks off search for data integration specialists."
MetaVis Technologies has recently announced that Information Manager Enterprise User Edition now supports SharePoint 2013. This new development allows users to manage data directly from the SharePoint user interface. This interesting information was found on GeeksWorld.com in their article, “MetaVis Makes It Easier to Organize Content in SharePoint 2013.”
Docstoc today launched a redesign of its website. Version 2.0 now includes semantic content discovery engine, topical pages, a rebuilt search engine, new profile pages, and file management.
The semantic web is inspiring interest by Fujitsu Ireland and local scientists who are forming a research alliance. Since the semantic web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the inclusion of semantic content in web pages seems a natural fit. Computer World UK brought this information to our attention in their article, “Ireland and Fujitsu aim to cash in on semantic web.”
It is a bird, it is a plane, no wait, it is a bird. A hummingbird to be exact. Google has released a new search algorithm designed to be more precise and provide faster query results, the algorithm is based on semantic search, focusing on user intent versus individual search terms.
Mindbreeze has received the much sought after KMWorld Award for their semantic search product, Mindbreeze InSite, for the sixth time.
Search has been morphing with regard to how you approach it, use it, and refer to it for some time now. Enter search engine optimization efforts and the focus or goal of search changed. Then came semantic search, which has changed the game even more. This interesting topic came from Forbes in their article, “Search Is Dead… Long Live Search!”
A recent study by Stone Temple Consulting on whether or not Google + shares alone can affect search engine rank. This seems a little precise for a study, but they took three websites and had two unique pages of applicable content published on each. One was a control page and one was a test page. Next , they had Google+ influencers share the page, as well as a handful of other participants who were instructed to only share the page, not visit or link to it in any other way.
Infolinx System Solutions was chosen by the District of Columbia Department of Human Resources (DCHR) for their enterprise physical records management software. This recently completed the installation is an upgrade to manage approximately 35,000 active employee records.