New Integration Increases Findability

EBSCO Publishing and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. have expanded their collaboration by enabling a more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and Innovative’s Encore discovery platform.

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Merger Has Potential To Change Search

Yippy, Inc. has entered into an agreement to merge with MuseGlobal, a leading provider of content integration and data virtualization services. This combination of search and content integration professionals has the potential of providing a range of resources, few others, including big players like Google or Microsoft, possess. The combined companies will create an information cloud that could represent a significant shift in the business of enterprise search.

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Compatibility Can Assist in Finding Your Data

Drupal combines their business workflow tools seamlessly with a suite of core modules like of, such as taxonomy and roles. Their tutorial helps users learn how to create a corporate collaborative authoring system without having to resort to writing PHP code.

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Does the Semantic Web Exist?

With Apple’s Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to argue that the semantic web is any longer a pipe dream. Yet, there are those that are doing just that.

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Speeding Up IT Purchasing

Purchasing isn’t easy in any business, but for information technology professionals, the endless variations of the same product and dissimilar ways to describe the products, it can be a real challenge.

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Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball

Baseball and biology are not commonly found in the same conceptual space. Neither do you find taxonomy associated with baseball, but in recent news these connections were made. Grant Bisbee, editor of “Baseball Nation”, digresses into the arcane as he laments the coming of the “He’s In the Best Shape of His Life” season. This is the time of year baseball writers must assess the prospects for the coming season, and clichés and hyperbole reign. The dubious practice of evaluating the physical condition of players runs rampant as spring training begins. With tongue in cheek, Bisbee tries to shape a taxonomy to classify this spring ritual. His would be the taxonomy of the “In the Best-shape Stories”.

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