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NEWS FEATURES
The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama uses Web 2.0 tools to further engage its participants in campaign work and to better understand the issues that are important to voters.
The release of the Scopus Journal Analyzer will provide a way for librarians and researchers to not only refer to Scopus's offering of publications but also to make evaluating the quality and popularity of those publications easier, thus making the research process more effective and efficient.
With all the talk of FEMA trailers, insurance fiascos, and rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, it's easy to forget that Hurricane Katrina hit area libraries hard. Library management had to make quick decisions about what to save and enlisted Belfor, a disaster restoration specialist, to help recover collections of government documents, microforms, newspapers, and a music library.
Dieselpoint announced a new product in late April, called OpenPipeline, which is open source middleware for crawling, parsing, analyzing, and routing documents.
FEATURED STORIES
Managing rich media is no longer just an issue faced by entertainment companies; it is becoming a widespread enterprise content management problem, with rich media files entering the enterprise content repository in ever-growing megabytes. Organizations need to plan for managing these assets to maximize their overall content management initiatives.
Dynamic navigation provides an approach to search that strives to alleviate some of the frustration users experience when trying to locate essential information. Instead of assuming that all users will take the same path to get to an answer, dynamic navigation provides a variety of routes to information, often in ways that can change on-the-fly.
Above all, search is about finding information, be it about a product or a bit of data essential for closing a deal. Thus, content providers leverage dynamic navigation to better lead customers to what they are looking for.
COLUMNS
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FACES OF ECONTENT
"I'm measured on the maintenance of the site's content."
PRODUCT REVIEWS
The eBookwise1150 eBook Reading Device is a functional and attractive low-cost reading device that enables users to download and read both commercial and personal content. While the eBookwise online store doesn't have the full range of books you might want, the device itself suggests a wide range of uses and applications.
CASE STUDIES
Every day, the small editorial staff of the B2B publisher Smart Brief is responsible for churning out more than 60 email newsletters. Such an endeavor requires diligence, patience, sound editorial judgment … and a really good text analytics tool. Smart Brief found that tool Lexalytics, which offered a rapid installation time for its products in addition to all of the text analytics essentials.
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