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Copyrighting Search Results May Be Next

By |September 17th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Copyrighting Search Results May Be Next

As you may or may not know, Russia’s new anti-piracy law continues to be reviewed and tested. The amendments to the controversial law have just passed their first reading. But what has everyone holding their breath is the intention to expand the legislation to address search engine results. Google and Russia’s leading search engine Yandex are extremely concerned by the proposals.

Increasing Access is Worthy Goal

By |September 11th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Increasing Access is Worthy Goal

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, have agreed to make Gale databases and archives discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS).

Google’s Biggest Challenge

By |September 3rd, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Google’s Biggest Challenge

Vision is key to succeeding but difficult to obtain if you have been in the lead from the beginning. There is power in seeing the backs of your competitors. It drives you to compete and win. But always seeing the finish line with a clear view can be deceptive.

Going Digital With A Purpose

By |August 30th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Going Digital With A Purpose

A large collection of court records from the late 1800s are being converted into digital files by New Perspectives Inc. (NPI). Creating digital files that can be indexed, searched and accessed is an honorable task. The benefit here is that the employees hired by NPI are individuals with physical impairments that are learning job skills that will help them make a future for themselves.

New Release Increases Findability

By |August 30th, 2013|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Release Increases Findability

Instem has released version 8.4 of its Sequence Retrieval System (SRS). This data integration platform is scalable and used in over 300 sites, both commercial and academic. Version 8.4 includes support for indexing data using Apache Lucene technology. Geeks World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Instem Releases Next Version of SRS Data Integration Platform.”

Special Issue To Cover Semantic Search

By |August 29th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Special Issue To Cover Semantic Search

The possibilities and limitations of semantic search are often discussed as more and more enterprises and applications utilize the technology. Research on the subject as grown almost as fast as the technology itself. Semantic search research is often based on large and rich data sets and a combination of techniques.

Webinar Addresses the Use of AI Enterprise Wide

By |August 16th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Webinar Addresses the Use of AI Enterprise Wide

Concept Searching is hosting a webinar entitled "Getting Knowledge Transfer Right Enterprise Wide" on September 5th. This is a joint effort with Discovery Machine Inc.

Project Increases Access for Research

By |August 14th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Project Increases Access for Research

A new joint initiative launched by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will help researchers have access to improved metadata and new tools as they search through and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American National Election Studies (ANES). The two-year project, named Metadata Portal for the Social Sciences, is supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Expanding the Search

By |August 5th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Expanding the Search

Alexander Street Press has updated its search interface with semantic facet browsing or more commonly known as an algorithm to identify categories of interest from a single keyword. With this new feature, results are returned pertaining to the keyword even if the keyword is not in the title of the resource.