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New Book Addresses Ontologies

By Melody Smith | March 29, 2012 |

Woodhead Publishing Ltd’s new book “Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century” traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.

Explaining Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | March 21, 2012

Explaining a taxonomy as a “knowledge organization system,” our very own Margie Hlava explains how they are used to control the use of terms used in a subject field into a “vocabulary” to facilitate the storing and retrieving of items from a repository.

Apple Acquires Mobile Application Company

By Melody Smith | March 21, 2012

Apple has acquired mobile application company, Chomp. Their feature product is an app for searching the iOS App Store in clever ways. Chomp’s app uses a “proprietary algorithm” that learns the functions and topic of apps. This semantic-like technology helps users search for apps based on their true functionality, not just their names. The app offers app browsing by unique categories that don’t exist within the App Store’s own taxonomy.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 7

By Melody Smith | March 19, 2012

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Next let’s look at an inverted file index, let’s pretend that this is the outline of the presentation. I have Define Key Terminology, Thesaurus Tools, Functions, Features, Class, Construction of the Thesaurus etc in the figure below. You can see that the word “Thesaurus” is used three times here. I have a number of other words that you might focus on to see where they are. If I am going to take these and make them into an inverted file, the simple inverted file index is just going to take them and make them into an alphabetic list. So it will sort the high ASCII characters first – the special characters and the numbers – and then it will sort the rest of them alphabetically.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6

By Melody Smith | March 12, 2012

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Last week we ended with natural language processing and we are picking up this week on automatic language processing or ALP.

Smart Search Equals Smart Content

By Melody Smith | March 8, 2012

Medical search engine and database tools aren’t all equal. Depending on your needs, a clinician could gain access to dynamic data to diagnose and treat patients must faster than ever before. One of these options is ClinicalKey, which is now in beta testing.

Complex Queries Made Simple

By Melody Smith | March 7, 2012

Oracle has announced it has updated the MySQL Cluster software. The result should make it more attractive to large Web service providers. Two features in particular will help with this. The software now offers a Memcached application programming interface that allows applications to access data directly. MySQL Cluster 7.2 also implements a faster way of…

Managing Data

By Melody Smith | March 6, 2012

Managing information has been an issue since the dawn of time. Juggling rocks, etchings, parchments, paper, floppy disks and now metabytes are really all part of the same challenge. Where to put it, how to find it and what does it mean? The advantage we have today is there are plenty of software options to assist in these tasks. There are also guidelines and standards that allow users to manage their ever precious content with consistency and skill.

Smart Content Framework Announced

By Melody Smith | February 22, 2012

Concept Searching announces formation of the Smart Content Framework, a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, manage information and address compliancy. This player in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software claims the framework has proven to be a flexible solution to address recurring problems in organizations of any size or in any industry.

Publishing Metadata Becomes More Valuable

By Melody Smith | February 21, 2012

Bowker has been selected by book retailer Books-A-Million to supply metadata related to the print, e- and audio books. Bowker metadata will be used to feed both internal and external systems supporting the firm’s purchasing needs and providing bibliographic and identifier information in stores and on the website.