Taxodiary – search

Adopting Standards Takes Time, Unfortunately

By Melody Smith|December 20th, 2010|indexing, News, ontology, search, semantic|Comments Off on Adopting Standards Takes Time, Unfortunately

Rumor has it the Open Group’s SOA Work Group intends the new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Ontology Technical Standard to be a semantic foundation for SOA terms and concepts.

OnBase 10.0 Content Management Released

By Melody Smith|December 17th, 2010|Autoindexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on OnBase 10.0 Content Management Released

Hyland Software has released OnBase 10.0, offering enterprise content management capabilities in case-management areas such as healthcare patient records and insurance claims.

Searching Online for Recipes in Cookbooks You Own

By Melody Smith|December 16th, 2010|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Searching Online for Recipes in Cookbooks You Own

A new website Eat Your Books helps members search for recipes in their own cookbooks. Eat Your Books is aimed at people who love using cookbooks, but desires the ease and convenience of searching online.

Semantic Technology is Hot

By Melody Smith|December 14th, 2010|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology is Hot

In the new trend projections for 2011, mobile and semantic web top the list. Content strategists can expect project what the changing mobile market will look like, and how they can align their content strategy to their mobile business strategy.

Searching Extreme Amounts of e-Data a Challenge

By Melody Smith|December 13th, 2010|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Searching Extreme Amounts of e-Data a Challenge

How many electronic records does it take before it becomes unsearchable? During a hearing last December, defense lawyers argued that the extreme amount of electronic data provided -- the equivalent of 8,000 to 10,000 boxes of paper -- was so mammoth and disorganized that it couldn't be effectively searched for information that might help the defendants. In a ruling afterward, the judge agreed, ordering the prosecution to "re-disclose" any relevant material in a more organized fashion.

Good Taxonomy is Key to Effective Search

By Melody Smith|December 1st, 2010|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Good Taxonomy is Key to Effective Search

Speakers at the Enterprise Search Summit, held November 16-18 in Washington, D.C., united in expressing the opinion that effective search is not a challenge that can be met by technology alone.

Meta Tagging and Google – A Match Made Where?

By Melody Smith|November 30th, 2010|News, search|Comments Off on Meta Tagging and Google – A Match Made Where?

Google’s new news meta tagging scheme is being questioned by some for its brilliance and potential success. Though they appreciate the intent to distinguish between syndicated and non-syndicated content, they worry that the meta tags are clunky and therefore likely to be used to work the web.

Get Your Ducks in a Row

By Melody Smith|November 23rd, 2010|News, search|Comments Off on Get Your Ducks in a Row

Duckduckgo.com is not just another search engine that displays results from other sites, such as Google´s, Bing´s etc. Instead, it concentrates its effort in ranking those results in a different, user friendly and plural way.

Semantic Technology in Travel

By Melody Smith|November 16th, 2010|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology in Travel

UpTake Networks has acquired social hotel recommendation site, Real Travel. Combine this with their semantic search engine designed to help travelers research and decide where to go, where to stay and what to do, the online travel research experience is accelerated.

Google of Audio Digitizing

By Melody Smith|November 11th, 2010|metadata, News, search, storage|Comments Off on Google of Audio Digitizing

One-half million audio recordings have been digitized by Memnon Archiving Systems relying on NOA systems. NOA systems support multiple Memnon projects, including migration of 250,000 digital audio tapes for Danish Radio and 350,000 CDs for BnF.