Posts Tagged ‘Search’
Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3
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 talking about search software and today we will continue with that topic. I believe in the data first as you know. Staring in the diagram with your Source Data you can see how the data flows. You need to clean the source data to a uniform format. This is often called the conversion process or the ETL – Extract Transform and Load.
Read MoreIndustry 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
Read MoreLeveraging 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.
Read MoreLeveraging 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.
Read MoreThey 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.
Read MoreSharePoint 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.
Read MoreHitachi 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.
Read MoreUniversity 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.
Read MoreSmartLogic 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.
Read MoreGenealogists & 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.
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