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SunHerald.com : Autonomy Announces New Advanced Features for Pan-Enterprise Search Platform

“Despite standardization efforts, information is scattered across the enterprise among different vendors’ software, in different formats, and among numerous servers and laptops,” said Mike Lynch, Autonomy’s CEO. “Autonomy’s Pan-Enterprise Search platform is the only FRCP-compliant enterprise search platform available in the market, delivering a single unified and vendor-neutral platform for searching all file formats and media-types for legal and business purposes.”

New advanced features include:

Drag and Drop Personalization is a next-generation functionality enabling users to personalize their information delivery by dragging content of interest into a custom box.

IDOL Deep Video Indexing (DVI) Advanced Features - Autonomy has further enriched its market-leading rich media support by providing powerful technologies for DVI and analytics. DVI differs from other technologies and uniquely tackles the challenge of asset identification and management through its use of groundbreaking methods and technology.

Geo-Cluster Maps - IDOL has enhanced its support for geo-efficiency by providing visualization tools to represent document density per location, thus allowing the administrator to quickly assess usage patterns and make informed decisions about load balancing.

Intent-Based Ranking uses ground-breaking algorithms to determine a user’s intent when querying, thereby delivering highly targeted results based on the individual’s profile and contextual factors. This new feature ranks results not simply based on popularity, keyword matches or other legacy algorithms, but automatically tailors the results to the user’s purpose and the specific query, making search more effective and efficient.

Interlinking - By automatically identifying sub-areas of the document for which there are relevant links, IDOL creates a seamless delivery of related information to the user.

Multi-Dimensional Index & Query Throttling - By using a multi-dimensional index to provide valuable information to the distribution components, IDOL precludes bottlenecks and unbalanced peak loads during the indexing and query process

• Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

  The benefits of a data web have not reached the mainstream consumer. Without a killer semantic web app for consumers, site owners have been reluctant to support standards like RDF, or even microformats. We believe that app can be web search.

  (tags: search semanticweb yahoo microformats rdf rend)

• Above and Beyond KM: Pragmatic Knowledge Management

  The three critical elements of a knowledge management program: creating knowledge, delivering knowledge and using knowledge

  (tags: toread knowledge knowledgemanagement)

Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
The Data Web in Action
While there has been remarkable progress made toward understanding the semantics of web content, the benefits of a data web have not reached the mainstream consumer. Without a killer semantic web app for consumers, site owners have been reluctant to support standards like RDF, or even microformats. We believe that app can be web search.

By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers. For example, by marking up its profile pages with microformats, LinkedIn can allow Yahoo! Search and others to understand the semantic content and the relationships of the many components of its site. With a richer understanding of LinkedIn’s structured data included in our index, we will be able to present users with more compelling and useful search results for their site. The benefit to LinkedIn is, of course, increased traffic quality and quantity from sites like Yahoo! Search that utilize its structured data.

TheRecord.com - Business - Open Text could be ripe for takeover
Open Text’s software handles enterprise content management, or ECM, which helps companies manage their many thousands of documents, web pages and media files. With businesses generating more data every year, and with stricter accounting standards requiring they keep better track of them, the enterprise content management sector has been a target for large high-tech companies.

In 2003, EMC Corp. bought Documentum Inc. IBM followed with the purchase of industry sales leader FileNet Corp. in 2006. Just three months later, Oracle Corp. picked up Stellent Inc. In between, Open Text itself bought Hummingbird Ltd. That leaves Open Text as the only major independent player remaining in the market, and some industry analysts think the knives are out.

New X1 Enterprise Search Suite Extends Federated Search
The X1 Suite offers a query and refine model—not just a simple results list. It provides for full fidelity preview of results and lets users take postsearch actions. Federated search usually has limitations on the actions users can take on search results because results are usually action-bound by their underlying object type. With this version, X1 said it has solved this limitation by implementing a “virtual object” model. It defined five standard actions that can be applied to any federated result set: Open, Print, Send by Email, Add to ZIP, and Drag and Drop. This enables content from one repository to be used with another.

• Tim Berners-Lee Video: The Semantic Web | Aarron Walter

  I recently ran across a wonderful video on YouTube in which Tim Berners-Lee, speaks about the idea of the Semantic Web. It’s a simple, yet elegant concept that has yet to come to fruition asBerners-Lee had originally dreamed.

  (tags: toread semanticweb)

• The Calais Initiative Looks Back on Its First Month - Blog - Semantic Focus

  They also express that Calais is not only good for named entity extraction, but can extract other facts from documents. An example they give is “what technologies are associated with what company in a document?”

  (tags: reuters calais todo categorization)

The Calais Initiative Looks Back on Its First Month - Blog - Semantic Focus
The Calais Initiative is almost one month old, and they’ve already received a large and welcoming response from the development community (1,113 early adopters)! When they weren’t busy doing interviews or answering hundreds of emails and forum posts, they were coming up with ways to help spread the technology. They will soon be releasing a Wordpress plugin, followed by plugins for Drupal, Plone and other content management systems. They also express that Calais is not only good for named entity extraction, but can extract other facts from documents. An example they give is “what technologies are associated with what company in a document?” Good luck, Calais team!

• HTC names Google phone ‘Dream’ | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-20 | By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service

  Open handset Alliance, Android, Google,

  (tags: mobile htc google)

• W3C Semantic Web Activity

  Semantic web specifications according to the W3C

  (tags: toread semanticweb)

• Google could be superseded by ’semantic web’

  Example: Bank Statements and your Calender. Combine the two and you can easely see when and where you spend your money.

  (tags: semanticweb)

• Lucene

  Although Lucene only works with text, there are other add-ons to Lucene that allow you to index Word documents, PDF files, XML, or HTML pages. Lucene has a very flexible and powerful search capability that uses fuzzy logic to locate indexed items.

  (tags: Lucene, todo, search)

• Enterprise Search Center - Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Search — 10 Issues to Consider

  Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Search — 10 Issues to Consider (Free PDF)

  (tags: knowledge enterprise search toread)

In this system,
small pieces of information such as a street address and a map would be
able to communicate with each other, which would give rise to new
services.”Using the semantic web, you can build applications that are much more powerful than anything on the regular web,” he said. “Imagine
if two completely separate things - your bank statements and your
calendar - spoke the same language and could share information with one
another. You could drag one on top of the other and a whole bunch of
dots would appear showing you when you spent your money.

“If you
still weren’t sure of where you were when you made a particular
transaction, you could then drag your photo album on top of the
calendar, and be reminded that you used your credit card at the same
time you were taking pictures of your kids at a theme park. So you
would know not to claim it as a tax deduction.”

See: http://news.directtrafficmedia.co.uk/Google_could_be_superseded_by_semantic_web_18513717.html