Protected: Take a Gander at PowerShell to Generate a SharePoint Architecture Diagram
December 12, 2011
ConceptSearching Add-Ons
December 1, 2011
In “Useful Enterprise Search Hastens SharePoint User Adoption,” the author briefly discusses conceptSearching and its business case targeted at the heavily regulated industries – banking, finance, healthcare, energy, etc. – and government SharePoint customers. So what are the user benefits? We learned:
Very fast recognition of any/all compliance sensitive…Further benefits include automatic recognition of document themes, referred to as “concepts” in the conceptSearching promotional material on their website, which should be particularly useful as compliance officers review and assimilate new documents to ensure that published information meets the objectives of the enterprise and conforms to guidance.
And the caveat? The benefits are delivered via a suite of products and add-ons including conceptClassifier and conceptTaxonomy Manager. Excellent search results rely on the right structure and the right tools.
We want to spend less time configuring add-ons and more time developing business intelligence. While Sharepoint adoption continues to grow, it still is not an out-of-the-box solution for enterprises. If you need a bit of help with improving SharePoint search,you might check into Mindbreeze, the company seems to have the installation and the benefits of a proper installation down pat.
Sara Wood, December 1, 2011
SharePoint Taxonomy Management Myths
November 22, 2011
Taxodiary reported this week on taxonomy management in the first article of the series “Five Myths About Taxonomy and SharePoint.”
Each myth will be reported on separately but the first one that the article tackles is a big one. Myth: SharePoint now has taxonomy management capabilities. The article states:
“SharePoint has certainly made a major step up by embedding the taxonomy capability within SharePoint however it is missing most of the critical features which make taxonomies so useful. No related terms, management within the term store is so painful even Microsoft employees use an outside tool. The set of taxonomy attributes allowed is very meager, tracking of term changes is nearly no existent, synonyms are not allowed, display space is limited to ten lines of the taxonomy at a time, etc.”
In order to avoid SharePoint’s taxonomy limitations, the article recommends that end users utilize a third party tool to help fill in the gaps as well as get feedback from user groups like the SLA Taxonomy Division.
We think that Taxodiary hit the nail on the head with this post. The bottom line is that too much jabber about taxonomies and controlled vocabularies are uninformed. You should attend to the experts, not the self appointed poobahs.
Jasmine Ashton, November 22, 2011
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Common Crawl Makes Baby Steps Towards Google’s Index Numbers
November 14, 2011
Read Write Web published an interesting article recently called “New 5 Billion Page Web Index With Page Rank Now Available.” Not only their page index and page ranks are openly accessible, but also their link graphs and other metadata. Hosted on Amazon EC2, this feat was announced by the Common Crawl Foundation.
Unfortunately for Common Crawl Foundation, we heard Google indexes 32 billion web pages. They remain optimistic because of their cloud computing infrastructure that theoretically provides unlimited storage room in addition to localized access to an elastic compute cloud.
The three-year old organization has just started releasing information about themselves publicly. They made the following statement:
“Common Crawl is a Web Scale crawl, and as such, each version of our crawl contains billions of documents from the various sites that we are successfully able to crawl. This dataset can be tens of terabytes in size, making transfer of the crawl to interested third parties costly and impractical. In addition to this, performing data processing operations on a dataset this large requires parallel processing techniques, and a potentially large computer cluster.”
While they plan on this project lending itself towards a new wave of “innovation, education and research,” they will need to ramp up their numbers before they can really claim that they provide access.
Megan Feil, November 14, 2011
HighWire Press and TEMIS Hook Up
November 2, 2011
HIghWire Press, a hosting and web publishing platform service, and TEMIS, a provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions, announced recently that the two companies will be entering into a strategic business partnership.
What’s this mean? HighWire will be integrating the full suite of Luxid software within its ePublishing Platform, further enabling discoverability, leveraging the company’s relationship with Google. A press release from the company, “HighWire Press Partners With TEMIS to Semantically Enrich Publisher’s Content,” tells us more:
End users have become much more sophisticated in their online information requirements and are demanding easier and more efficient ways of locating the most relevant information. Furthermore, publishers need to strengthen and differentiate their value proposition in order to increase customer satisfaction and retention. They are looking for ways to increase the value derived from their content by creating innovative online products targeted at specific professional audiences. Semantic content enrichment has become the strategic means to achieve these objectives.
This will be a highly valuable tool for publishers who will be able to use the platform to develop new products and deliver them; the publishing community will expand with the use of semantics. Interesting concept, but do publishers constitute a “growing” market?
Our opinion? We think that publishers are likely to have even more search and content processing vendors sell them solutions which will revolutionize their business. One can only hope.
Andrea Hayden, November 2, 2011
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2012: Enterprise Search Yields to Metadata?
October 30, 2011
Oh, my. The search dragon has been killed by metadata.
You might find yourself on an elevator ready to get off on a specific floor. The rest of your trip will start from that point and that point only. The same is true for learning, conversing, actually just about anything. We all have a particular place we want to enter the conversation. MSDN’s Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog’s recent posting on “Taxonomy: Starting from Scratch” was a breath of fresh air in the way it addressed anyone–no matter what floor they needed.
For the novices to Managed Metadata Service, a service providing tools to foster a rich corporate taxonomy, the article recommends a starting point: Introducing Enterprise Metadata Management
According to the article. The more seasoned users are reminded to point their browsers towards import capabilities. Of course, there are more specific needs, and links to go with them, addressed too.
The article recommends the following for the clients who need a comprehensive understanding of both common and specific corporate terms. The author Ryan Duguid states:
“The General Business Taxonomy consists of around 500 terms describing common functional areas that exist in most businesses. The General Business Taxonomy can be imported in to the SharePoint 2010 term store within minutes and provides a great starting point for customers looking to build a corporate vocabulary and take advantage of the Managed Metadata Service.”
Overall, this article is worth keeping tucked away for a day when you might need information on WAND, SharePoint, or metadata and taxonomy in general because of the directness and the accessible next steps the variety of links offer.
Megan Feil, October 30, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Access Innovations Awarded Patent for MAIChem
October 28, 2011
Bravo to our friends at Access Innovations for receiving a U.S. patent (the company’s 19th technology patent) for MAIChem, a software-based method for searching chemical names in documents.
The company, founded in 1978, focuses on Internet technology applications and content management and enhancement. MAIChem is a tool that will be highly useful for researchers and information managers in the chemical and pharmacy data industries. A press release, “Access Innovations Receives U.S. Patent for Unique MAIChem™ Software Search Method: Software Provides Fast, In-Depth, Broad and Consistently Accurate Searches of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry Data,” shares details about the tool:
Finding these names in documents is challenging due to the unlimited number of potential compounds and the variety of ways a compound can be named. MAIChem solves the problem by comparing the text to regular expressions that match typical chemical morphemes, such as “hydro” or “amine,” to see if they occur in words.”’explained Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president of Access Innovations. After its initial analysis, MAIChem’s software differentiates between nonchemical words that use the morphemes and actual chemical names.
MAIChem could potentially help in numerous fields and tasks: content discovery, analysis, machine-aided indexing, and faster information retrieval. The award of this patent shows Access Innovations is bringing something unique to the board in content management. Chemistry professionals should be swooning; Access Innovations is taking it to the next level. Congratulations from the team at Beyond Search.
For more information about Access Innovations’ MAIChem, visit http://www.dataharmony.com/products/maichem.html Now maybe the faux taxonomy experts will realize there is more to ANSI standard vocabularies than a slick marketing program and a reference to military training. We can only hope.
Andrea Hayden, October 28, 2011
Microsoft Pushes Toward or Beyond Google
October 14, 2011
As part of its recent Microsoft Research roadshow, Microsoft officials talked up ‘Tiger,’ Bing’s next-generation index-serving platform. Tiger, jointly developed by Microsoft Research and Microsoft’s Search Technology Center in Asia, uses solid-state disk technology to improve Bing’s search performance and relevance… But there’s more to Binging than just the index server. Another key component of Microsoft’s search service is ‘Cosmos’ . . . Cosmos is the cloud storage and computational engine that powers all of Microsoft’s Online Services, including Bing.
A concerted effort is being made to improve Bing’s behind-the-scenes function. Various aspects of Bing have been lauded by the tech community, but Google still holds a lion’s share of the market. Speaking of lion, Microsoft should know better than to name a product Tiger. Mac already owns that space in the tech lexicon.
Emily Rae Aldridge, October 14, 2011
Can the Sum of Digital Media be Classified?
October 13, 2011
The ALRC Discussion Paper released today contains 44 proposals relating to a proposed new National Classification Scheme. It suggests that at its heart will sit a new Classification of Media Content Act. It will identify what content needs to be classified, who should do it, and who has responsibility for breaches of the guidelines.
Modus Operandi’s Software Has a New M.O.
October 4, 2011
Looks like this project has the capability to spread. Modus Operandi’s new software will speed up access to intelligence reports that are put into a common format, ultimately allowing U.S. intelligence to be one step closer to communicating effectively and efficiently across its various networks.
The press release, “Modus Operandi Completes New Software To Provide Faster Access to Intelligence Reports,” gave us some introductory information:
“The applications, which are now available for download and use by the entire DCGS-SIGINT community, automate the process of converting SIGINT reports from multiple formats to one metadata community standard format,” said George Eanes, vice president of business development at Modus Operandi.”
These two software applications, Wave XSLT Generator and Metacard Generator, bring some exciting possibilities to the table, thanks to the Small Business Innovative Research Phase III project.
The technology was developed to completely change the pre-existing differing formats of structured and unstructured data into the same one. That information then posts to the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Signals Intelligence Integrated Backbone.
Those two main actions yield essentially an electronic index that analysts can search and access data that was originally produced by multiple platforms.
More woe for humans working in the information vineyards.
Megan Feil, October 4, 2011
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