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Stanford’s Engineering Library Follows New Trend in Libraries – No Books

By Melody Smith | August 24, 2010

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.

New Patents Awarded For Index Engines

By Melody Smith | August 24, 2010

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 Discovery Platform is Awarded United States and European Patents”, the patient issue was for a unique approach for processing data, and also for making that data searchable and discoverable across primary…

Calculating the ROI of Semantic Enrichment

By Melody Smith | August 23, 2010 |

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 Adds DataCap To Its Arsenal

By Melody Smith | August 19, 2010

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.

The Triumphant Ascendance of the Librarian

By Melody Smith | August 18, 2010

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 Chosen by UK

By Melody Smith | August 17, 2010

Brainware Distiller has been chosen by British Sky Broadcasting Group for the processing of invoices in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Spanish Researchers Develop Classification Tools

By Melody Smith | August 13, 2010

Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid have developed a tool that can discover and automatically classify bioinformatics resources from the scientific literature.

Standards: Straightjacket or Straight Edge?

By Melody Smith | August 9, 2010

Standards were not popular with would-be railroad tycoons in the 1880s. A standard set of railroad tracks eliminated some profitable loading and unloading work. Incompatible tracks kept the other guys’ rolling stock on another guy’s tracks. Eventually standards emerged because a couple of tycoons figured out how to make even more money by standardizing. Many industries go through this wide open approach only to find that over time certain methods or designs become part of the furniture of living.