Taxodiary – search

Industry Meeting on Search in Nice

By Melody Smith|February 20th, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on Industry Meeting on Search in Nice

There is a meeting coming up soon in Nice that might be worth your consideration. Granted, any meeting in Nice would be worth my consideration, but this one offers more than a great location. This is an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus of this meeting is on tools for intelligence and the meeting examines the requirements of specialists in scientific and technical information

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 2

By Melody Smith|February 13th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 2

This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started with the various modules of search. This week we are addressing the search software itself.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 1

By Melody Smith|February 6th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 1

This series of blog posts will explore how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in.

They Can’t Buy It If They Can’t Find It

By Melody Smith|February 1st, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on They Can’t Buy It If They Can’t Find It

One online retailer has expanded their website functionality to make findability of their products more user friendly and practical.

SharePoint Gives Findability

By Melody Smith|January 25th, 2012|Access Insights, News, search|Comments Off on SharePoint Gives Findability

Access to information is something we take for granted more and more every day. The Internet has changed our ability to find information and locate data, close or remote. Smart phones have taken that availability to unimagined realms. In the corporate world, there are still two groups – those who have findability of their data and those who do not.

Hitachi Looks to the Clouds

By Melody Smith|January 25th, 2012|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Hitachi Looks to the Clouds

Hitachi Data Systems has aligned their product and portfolio around a three-tiered strategy that focuses on the cloud. This consists of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud to provide a single virtualization platform for all data.

University Embraces New Search Engine Technology

By Melody Smith|January 24th, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on University Embraces New Search Engine Technology

North Illinois University Libraries have launched a new search service this semester. Primo incorporates the advanced developments in search engine technology that seeks to provide an easier and more intuitive process for locating academic literature.

SmartLogic Releases Semaphore 3.3

By Melody Smith|January 23rd, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on SmartLogic Releases Semaphore 3.3

Smartlogic has released their latest version of Semaphore. Version 3.3 offers enhanced enterprise search and organize enterprise metadata as they provide the capability for integration with SharePoint 2010.

Genealogists & Historians Gain New Resource

By Melody Smith|January 18th, 2012|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Genealogists & Historians Gain New Resource

Cook Memorial Library in La Grande, Oregon are gaining two new databases of interest to family history researchers and genealogists — HeritageQuest Online available from home or office with a library card, and Ancestry Library Edition, available only in the library.

Semantic Search in 2012

By Melody Smith|January 16th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search in 2012

Semantic technology continued to evolve through 2011 and 2012 holds promise for even more exciting discoveries and applications. Between QR codes, fragmentation and personalized search, the Semantic Web 3.0 is ripe for the picking.