Coordinating Platform and Taxonomy Implementations Intelligently

By Melody Smith | August 8, 2011 |

Why is it that people seem to feel that they need to get the platform and the technology in place and tested before they ever work on the organization of their information and cleaning up the data? They do not look at the data and what the data needs to be best used by the user community. I am repeatedly getting told that the DTD/Schema for the data and the taxonomy
implementation have been pushed back because they are working on implementing the platform. What do they think the platform is for? Without well organized and well formed test data how will they even begin to know that the system will be able to work well for their information? How do they know that the user can find anything in the proposed system if they have no idea what the data is like? Where are the taxonomy terms going to go in the database or the record or the system? How are they bound to the information they reference? Building the platform first is like buying a pair of shoes without knowing either the size of the foot or the occasion for which they are to be worn. Rant! Rant

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Faceted Search and Open Source

By Melody Smith | August 5, 2011

The optimal search experience seems to be the new trend. Faceted search is found in intranets and enterprise search applications, as well as other content-heavy sites. However, this takes a budget with enough power to sustain search applications to take you the whole journey. What are the other options?

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ASIS&T and Access Innovations Host Webinar

By Melody Smith | August 4, 2011

ASIS&T and Access Innovations are hosting a webinar on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (EDT). The webinar is named “Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation” and the facilitators will be Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., and Joe Shepley, Vice President and Practice leader for Doculabs.

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Talking About Wine

By Melody Smith | July 25, 2011

A new social monitoring tool has hit the market, but a very specific market. Cruvee focuse solely on the wine industry, allowing users to track and engage in conversations across the web with current and potential customers.

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EBSCO Chosen for Findability

By Melody Smith | July 21, 2011

Nanyang Technological University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), after an extensive trial process of many services, to enable findability of the library’s content from a single search box.

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Taxonomy and Search: Access Innovations’ Founder And Industry Pioneer Talks About Three Important Trends

By Melody Smith | July 19, 2011

During her 33 years in the search industry, Margie Hlava, president of Access Innovations, has seen a lot of trends come and go. Today’s changing information environment, with its ever-growing avalanche of data and critical need for better search and more efficient organization of content, presents some unique challenges.

Hlava recently shared her views with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst who has more than 30 years of experience, as part of his Search Wizards Speak series. Access Innovations, Hlava’s company, is releasing an excerpt of the interview.

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Semantic Technology Needs A Solid Taxonomy

By Melody Smith | July 19, 2011

The changes in retail traffic and popularity of things like GroupOn, Try It Local, etc. is motivating GeoCommerce to complete the process of consummating strategic relationships to ensure their footing in the future of Consumer Identification and Authentication.

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