Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
The Search for Machine-Aided Indexing: Why a Rule-Based System is the Cost-Effective Choice
by Larry Compton Executive summary Data Harmony is one of several companies that offer machine-aided indexing software solutions to indexing and categorizing unstructured data. Data Harmony’s Machine Aided Indexer™ is a rule-based system, whereas most of our competitors use methods that are a combination of linguistic or statistical approaches to indexing data. Many of our…
Read MoreAutomatic Indexing Return on Investment (ROI)
A Case Study Comparison of Rule Base and Statistical Approaches by Marjorie M.K. Hlava There is a lot of confusion in the marketplace. Word is out that rule bases take a lot of up front investment. Concurrence systems advertise a purely programmatic solution and appeal to many IT professionals. What is the real up front…
Read MoreThe Strategic Business Value of a Well-Constructed Taxonomy
By Bert Carelli An organization’s website is today the primary strategic tool not only for delivering information and promoting its scholarly mission, but also for developing and maintaining relationships with and among its members and the larger scholarly community. A unified semantic strategy is the best way of bringing together all elements of that mission…
Read MoreWhat is Too Much Information?
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the amount of digital data and information available? It is no surprise. The amount of data available on the Web ever day continues to reach record-setting proportions, with an estimated 30-percent growth per year.
Read MoreIreland in the Clouds
What does the financial bailout of Ireland and cloud computing have in common? The bailout relates directly to a real-estate bubble that is very similar to the one in the United States and will take the form of loans in the range of $100 to $120 billion – about half the size of the entire Irish economy. A recent survey showed Ireland ranking 13th per capita in IT spending, though not ranking in the top 25 of most vibrant IT culture. This revealed that Ireland’s IT spending has been deploying new systems and is then, a perfect case for outsourced cloud computing relying on third-party providers to deliver.
Read MoreData Harmony Users to Preview New Features, Options at 2011 Meeting
Users of DataHarmony software from Access Innovations will have the opportunity to preview new features and options, train on how to get the most from the knowledge management software suite, learn from case studies throughout the globe, and discuss their experiences and challenges during the Seventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting February 7-10, 2011 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting will also feature a special seminar entitled “The Theory of Knowledge” presented by Marjorie Hlava, president of Access Innovations.
Read MoreOpen Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region
Recently, several very well known organizations announced that they had formed Asia Cloud Computing Association (Asia Cloud), an open collaboration forum based in the Asia Pacific region.
Read MoreDiscovery Technology Debate
Last week’s Charleston Conference set the scene for a discovery-product debate. Competitors EBSCO Publishing and Serials Solutions faced off over their discovery products—EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and Summon.
Read MoreGreater IT Agility is the Biggest Desire from Business Leaders
The annual InformationWeek Analytics Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey shows that they need systems that can be quickly adapted to support changing requirements–to get the most out of an acquisition, enter a new market, or find new customers.
Read MoreBest Web Face Forward
A recent survey revealed almost half of business technology professionals run more than five separate online sites. This was according to the InformationWeek Analytics 2010 Corporate Web Presence Survey. So how good are we at multi-tasking?
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