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Semantic Technologies Achieve Findability

By Melody Smith | June 11, 2013

Elsevier has announced an investment in a new online platform and management system for its 500+ health, medical and life sciences journal-branded custom websites. The new online platform will provide improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial tool to create topical article collections, and an improved reading experience for visitors using mobile devices.

The Wonderful World of Search

By Melody Smith | June 10, 2013

Search is such a wonderful and widely debated issue. To me there are three main kinds of search and each is accomplished in different ways.

Assume that we have an article indexed with the terms appropriate to the content of that article. These terms are specific to the content, the terms applied are not broad categories unless the article itself is broad. we put limits in the rule base on broad terms so they do not get over productive in search results.

New Resources Available

By Melody Smith | June 3, 2013

Serials Solutions is working with Teton Data Systems (TDS) to make the premier healthcare e-resource STAT!Ref discoverable via the Summon service.

Comprehensive Findability

By Melody Smith | May 30, 2013

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has chosen TEMIS’s Luxid Platform to enhance its scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly (STMS) content. The result will be search and discovery tools providing professional and academic researchers faster and better findability.

The Power of Semantics

By Melody Smith | May 29, 2013

It is no secret that Yahoo has purchased the microblogging site, Tumblr. However, it seems confusing to some as to why a small player in the world of search (and getting smaller), invested over a billion dollars in something that has no solid business model. The answer is semantics.

Making Data Accessible

By Melody Smith | May 27, 2013

EBSCO and Data-Planet have reached an agreement that will put statistical DataSheetsthat within a discovery service. This growing collection of more than 5,000 summary-level data records from Data-Planet will be available within EBSCO Discovery Service allowing mutual customers to link directly to Data-Planet DataSheets.

Semantic Search is Challenging the Norm

By Melody Smith | May 27, 2013

Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search is the evaluation of enterprise search software. A group of analyst evaluate different providers based on criteria such as market penetration, ingenuity, and strength of implementation. Those being evaluated are then placed in one of four categories: Challengers, Leaders, Visionaries, and Niche Players. Mindbreeze was one of those being evaluated and they were categorized as “challengers”.

Dynamic Search Results Sought

By Melody Smith | May 22, 2013

Algebraix Data Corporation has launched an automated implementation of Schema.org. Algebrize is a cost-effective, W3C compliant Software as a Service (SaaS). Website owners can realize increased traffic and conversion rates with semantic technology at work.

New Approach to Travel

By Melody Smith | May 20, 2013

Andrew Lacy, one of the co-founders of the mobile game Tapulous, has moved into a new market with ZapTravel, a semantic travel search engine. The premise is to take away the data entry approach and use a more texting approach, i.e., “I want to go to Paris.”