Verndale Pulls Down Two WebAwards

Recognized for Outstanding Achievement in web development for their work on the new Commonwealth Magazine and Money Management International websites, Verndale was honored with two WebAwards by the WebMarketing Association. This is no small feat considering the nominees and the criteria which is quite lengthy.

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You Cannot Classify Unless You Connect

October 4, 2010 — One of the facts of classification and indexing is that one has to have access to the content. Most users of a system assume that any content in an organization is available in an electronic system. That assumption is incorrect. The reason is that certain systems use a proprietary file format…

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The Relevance of Taxonomies

In this world of real time search and respond, one has to wonder if the traditional library information sources’ reliance on controlled vocabularies remains a viable, worthwhile, and cost-effective strategy. What about enterprise search? How important are they in this world of keyword search?

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ATG Commerce 10 Released

ATG releases ATG Commerce 10 designed to help merchants speed commerce implementations, improve merchandising, rapidly launch multiple sites, and easily expand into new markets. These capabilities are designed to increase the value of merchandise, and the profitability of overall commerce initiatives.

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Consumer Products Getting a Machine Assigned Reputation

Consumer-generated content continues to grow at a rapid pace. Much of this is caused by online purchases and the consumer reviews/ratings spurred by that growth. So it should be no surprise that marketers are spending a great deal of their time trying to monitor and manage the online consumer-generated information, and many are using Natural Language Processing (NLP).

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Shaking the Image of Dusty Archives

10-year project, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby’s Heritage, tied with a Smithsonian Institute project last month for ArchivesNext’s award for best repurposing of digitized data. The online project allows visitors to Heritage Burnaby’s website to click on and learn about historic locations on each of the maps.

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Sophia Search Uses Semiotic Approach

Sophia Search brings a different approach to searching information in the enterprise to market in the form of a search engine tool that understands the relationship between related sets of content. Rather than taking the approach to indexing that relies on taxonomy and ontology, Sophia search engine relies on a Contextual Discovery Engine.

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