IDOL Server Overview 

Almost all internal operations and processes within an organization are interconnected; in the same way, technology itself should allow communication between applications, regardless of the back-end data ... sources. Autonomy provides a new layer within the enterprise, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer Server, making it possible for organizations to automatically process digital content and allow applications to communicate with each other. The Autonomy infrastructure Autonomy delivers a complete software infrastructure solution that forms an understanding of the actual content of any type of information, text or voice-based, unstructured or structured, regardless of where it is stored, format it has been created with or applications associated with the data. This is why the technology provides "Integration Through Understanding" , allowing applications to communicate with each other without any manual effort involved in setting up complicated connectors or using metadata. Autonomy's un   [More...] [Less...]

Taxonomy Warehouse - information organization, metadata, knowledge management, classification tools 

Whether you are just investigating what taxonomy is and how it can help your organization or are making critical decisions on developing or managing taxonomies for your enterprise, Taxonomy Warehouse can ... help. We are the only site on the Internet dedicated to taxonomies for corporations. Get the information you need to effectively categorize internal and external data collections and ensure users find the information they need with speed and precision. A tailored taxonomy can transform the way your organization maximizes its information assets - Taxonomy Warehouse is the place to start. Gale Brands and Their Companies Brands and Their Companies contains more than 426,000 consumer brands and tradenames from over 120,000 manufacturers and distributors. Information is easily accessible, comprehensive, current and accurate. The entire database contains 388,000 records which is supplied in a tagged ASCII format. Online Information 2007 December 4-6 2007 London, UK New Synaptica Release - Do   [More...] [Less...]

Taxonomy Warehouse - Results by Category 

Results by Category Engineering (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)) The index supports access to the Aerospace & High Technology Database, which covers such topics as aeronautics, astronautics, and ... space sciences, as well as technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as ... "Copper Thesaurus (Copper Development Association) The Copper Thesaurus is used to index and search the Copper Data Center database. The terms can be searched and then displayed in a standard thesaurus display, rotated index or alphabetical list. "Ei Thesaurus (Elsevier Engineering Information) The Ei thesaurus is used for indexing and retrieval of engineering articles and conference papers in the Ei Compendex ® database. The Ei Thesaurus is structured hierarchically, showing descriptors together with scope notes, broader, narrow... "Engineering Thesaurus (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)) The CSA Engineering Thesaurus is used to index and search the Civil Engineering   [More...] [Less...]

Search Engine Watch: Tips About Internet Search Engines 

Mobile Search Fortune Seekers - Sep 26, 2007 By the Numbers The year of mobile search seems to be forever a few months away. Even if mobile search doesn't hit the ad revenue jackpot this year, marketers ... need to know how to secure a seat at the table.   [More...] [Less...]

Inspec Direct overview 

Inspec Direct is the information tool that every corporate, industrial, government and academic researcher should be using in their quest for critical data. As the major multidisciplinary resource that ... locates quality global scientific and engineering literature, the Inspec database provides essential information that meets the needs of research professionals. Spanning 110 years of scientific research and containing over 10 million abstracts and subject indexing to peer reviewed and high quality literature, Inspec delivers comprehensive authoritative information that accelerates research and innovation. Who should use Inspec Direct? Engineers, scientists, physicists and IT professionals Academics, researchers and students Librarians and information scientists Patent specialists, agents and lawyers Consultants, business analysts, bankers and investors What does Inspec provide? Inspec Direct will give you comprehensive coverage of global scientific and engineering literature, essential f   [More...] [Less...]

Yahoo Search takes aim at Semantic Web 

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Wired Campus: Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki - Chronicle.com 

In the Comments Two years ago in my doctorate program I had to buy a $120 dollar book on affordability and the rising cost of higher education. Anyone else see the irony there? Apparently the publisher ... didn’t. --John who is not an expert on anything Recent Posts June 6, 2008 Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute their own articles, which will be clearly marked and run alongside the edited reference pieces. This seems to be a response to the runaway success of the user-edited online reference tool Wikipedia . (See for yourself. Do a Web search on a topic and note whether Wikipedia or Britannica shows up first.) Scholars have been adamantly opposed to Wikipedia citations in academic papers because the authors and s   [More...] [Less...]

Web 3.0 or 'Semantic Web' (Features by PC Magazine) [text/html, text/html]

Google Experimental Search 

Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When ... you search for the same keywords again, you'll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you've made. Note that this is an experimental feature and may be available for only a few weeks. This button (fig. 1b) will move the result to the top of the page and add this orange marker (fig. 1a) next to it so you can easily recognize it. The result(s) you promote will appear at the top whenever you search for the same keyword(s) in the future. At the bottom of the search results (fig. 1c) you can give the address of a page that's relevant to your search. When you search for these same keyword(s) the page you've suggested will appear at the top with this orange marker . Your changes will be applied each time you search for the same ke   [More...] [Less...]

Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership 

Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog Proponents say an in-house blog can be like a bulletin board, communication tool and culture enhancement. Plus, it's better than tracking projects ... by e-mail. 1. Your enterprise e-mail applications are not easy to search. This prevents people from getting key information that might be buried in a colleague’s inbox. Even recent improvements and offerings in enterprise search might not allow you to get critical pieces of information you need from an e-mail that someone failed to include you as a recipient in. “KM [Knowledge Management] fails often because the benefit was for the company, not the individual,” says Suw Charman, a blog consultant. “Wouldn’t it just be easy to keep information about one subject in one place—a blog?” 2. Your e-mail is lost in the eye of the “cc storm.” With e-mail, information sharing is haphazard, disorganized. The information that gets passed along to anyone largely relies on the prerogative of the sen   [More...] [Less...]