I went to one of my favorite bookstores the other day. I have been awaiting the release of E. E. Knight’s Winter Duty. Looking at the overhead signs for sections, I realized that this is the beginning of a taxonomy....My realization that the bookstore is using a taxonomy made me realize that taxonomies are merely a way of grouping information together in a way that is relevant to the user.
The research and development side of XBRL US Labs has introduced the latest taxonomy services for business reporting.
SAS Text Analytics was named a Trend Setting Product for 2010 by KMWorld magazine. SAS’s product locates and retrieves relevant data and lets customers obtain insights from electronic text, improve search results and derive intelligence to determine their best course of action.
What is a library without books? Paper books, that is. Some call it progress, others are in dismay, but Stanford University’s Engineering Library has gone digital.
August 24, 2010 – Index Engines was recently awarded patents in the United States and also Europe.
According to Digital Producer’s article, “Index Engines Data […]
We are often asked for help in calculating the potential return on investment (ROI) of investing in a taxonomy. How this calculation is done depends on the type of organization and who will be the users of the taxonomy. For any content-intensive organization, using a taxonomy increases findability, which in turn leads to greater utility and value for the organization’s content assets. Within the enterprise, this translates into hours and dollars saved by reducing the time required to find things, as well as the time and expense of redoing research or other work that can’t be found.
IBM’s recent acquisition of document capture vendor DataCap, will add new technology that enables users to extract data from structured and unstructured formats, including information from tax returns, invoices and other forms, as well as email and PowerPoint presentations.
Librarians are hoarders with conventional and intellectually-provincial minds and authors struggle to think outside the boxes that librarians keep foisting upon the academic disciplines within which they both operate.
Brainware Distiller has been chosen by British Sky Broadcasting Group for the processing of invoices in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid have developed a tool that can discover and automatically classify bioinformatics resources from the scientific literature.