Semantic software provider, Expert System, has been awarded a framework agreement by Buying Solutions for Digital Continuity. The agreement has been developed and delivered in collaboration with The National Archives and consists of six Lots. Expert System will provide solutions for Lot 5, eDiscovery Solutions, for the mining of unstructured information.
Tracking security and privacy issues are in every headline you read these days. Firefox started the buzz with their announcement of a “do not track” tool that empowers consumers to comprehensively request not to be followed wherever you visit on the Web. This came from a Federal Trade Commission request.
Recall, precision and relevance are factors that figure heavily in search, yet they are often missing from taxonomies. In the second of a four-part webinar series co-hosted by Access Innovations and the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Margie Hlava will explore how search can potentially be improved by applying subject metadata and how taxonomies can be used on the front-end or attached to records at the time they are created and loaded.
Even with the explosion of information we continue to find that piece of information that we are looking for – with plenty of room left to store data, pictures, music, and video. Is this because of the cloud storage? Some don’t think so.
The economics of the Web have reversed the original business model for online information upon which businesses like LexisNexis and Dialog were built. Through those services, users paid up to $4 for individual articles from daily newspapers that originally cost 25 cents on the newsstand. That model is obviously dead today, where the cost of an individual article – even articles from leading trade magazines and scholarly journals – is effectively zero. Does that mean that publishers, aggregators, and other content owners should police the Web to insure their content is not freely distributed? Not at all – one needs only look at the recent case of Wikileaks to see that it will be impossible to keep any content from showing up freely on the Web. As they say, the Genie is already out of the bottle, so the only logical step is figuring out how to make money in the current environment. This is where taxonomies can add value – by enabling the creation of new information products that connect disparate pieces of content with high-value applications and new markets.
Just in time for New Year’s, we have compiled a list of 10 reasons for companies to resolve to create a taxonomy for their business in 2011. Because many businesses are unsure about how a taxonomy could benefit them, we believe offering some actual examples will be useful.
Russian search engine, Yandex, rolled out a new feature recently that aims to make its search experience seem a lot more intelligent. Sounds a bit like semantics to us.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) have made an agreement ensuring long term access to the digital scientific, technical, and engineering information (STEI) collected by NTIS.
More than 100 years of Gaylord Herald Times archives and history became available online courtesy of the Otsego County Library and the local newspaper. This Northern Michigan event was celebrated by both the local library and newspaper.