Mohomine Inc, a provider of text processing automation software, and Wordmap Limited, developers of taxonomy management systems, have announced a strategic technology relationship and the launch of a fully integrated solution for classification and enterprise taxonomy management. Wordmap's Taxonomy Management System allows organizations to tag content effectively by storing consistent metadata terms. It powers navigation interfaces, with a security layer that allows personalized navigation views to be served to multiple users and groups. Multiple language versions of taxonomies are supported. The taxonomy also plays an important part in application integration. Unless organizations use consistent terminology in all of their applications, integration efforts will not succeed. Through working with taxonomy users such as Factiva, Wordmap has the wide range of features and scalability needed to satisfy enterprise requirements. Mohomine's MohoClassifier is an auto-categorization solution built using "learn-by-example"/machine learning technology. Mohomine's language-independent, patented algorithms provide accuracy and performance, and can be quickly deployed and modified. By deploying the MohoClassifier, organizations can access formerly inaccessible information to drive business intelligence and text analytics, enable employees to focus on high-value activities vs. low-value sorting and routing tasks, and reduce costs while increasing work force productivity. The combined solution is available in the Americas from Mohomine Inc, and in EMEA from Wordmap Ltd.

(http://www.mohomine.com), (http://www.wordmap.com)

IBM has announced that it is working with the National Geographic Society to digitizing more than 10,000 of its images of culture, adventure, and nature and to make them commercially available worldwide. Based on IBM ebusiness software and hardware infrastructure technology, the new on-demand ebusiness solution will expand and enhance National Geographic's IT infrastructure through a new B2B Web site located at www.ngsimages.com. As a result of the new solution, National Geographic hopes to enable customers worldwide, including advertising agencies, corporate marketing departments, and international publishers, to view, select, purchase, and download images directly from their desktops. National Geographic's on-demand solution is based on WebSphere Commerce for Digital Media, software that allows customers to search the archive and to purchase images securely over the Internet. In addition, IBM's Content Manager and DB2 database software will serve as the repository enabling them to search, access, and analyze thousands of media assets. The solution will be based on e-Server pSeries. Additionally, IBM's digital asset management system solution for publishing, Networked Interactive Content Access (NICA), will be used to implement some future digitization projects at the Society. Initially the new site will house more than 10,000 photographs; National Geographic anticipates adding as many as 3,000 new images each year for commercial use.

(http://www.ibm.com), (http://www.ngsimages.com)

Percussion Software has announced that the United Kingdom's National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA)'s newly redesigned Web site has "gone live" with Rhythmyx Content Manager. NESTA, created by the British government in 1998 to discover, develop, and fund innovative science, technology, and art projects, uses its Web presence as the primary marketing and communication tool for reaching applicants, awardees, philanthropists, the media, and the public. In conjunction with its mission to nurture and encourage talented individuals to stay in the UK, NESTA's Web presence is used to foster public education and innovation. NESTA also uses its Web site to solicit and receive applications from interested individuals for funding new projects. Aided by Percussion's Rapid Ownership program, a knowledge transfer methodology, NESTA's team worked with Percussion's consultants on an aggressive schedule to deploy and implement Rhythmyx across its enterprise. Faced with several hundred individual designs for the site's content pages, NESTA used Active Assembly to minimize development by creating flexible templates, each of which could accommodate multiple page layouts. Rhythmyx functionality includes: Active Assembly, which allows business-level producers to group and arrange content into Web pages and documents, without requiring new templates; a Web services layer that enables content authors to use their existing content creation tools and provides integration with external delivery systems; and a configurable, engine-based architecture that facilitates the production and aggregation of content while minimizing the need for custom coding.

(http://www.percussion.com)

Macromedia, Inc. has announced Macromedia Director MX, a multimedia authoring environment for building high-end, rich, interactive content and applications deployed on CD/DVD-ROM, kiosks, and the Web via Macromedia Shockwave Player. New features of Macromedia Director MX include integration with the Macromedia Flash MX product family, adoption of the streamlined Macromedia MX user interface, Mac OS X support, new workflow efficiencies, and the ability to create accessible content so that rich Director presentations can be enjoyed by people with disabilities.

Macromedia Director MX enables users to author content once and deliver it anywhere, whether it is online or offline. Director MX supports most major video, audio, bitmap, 3D, and vector formats to give developers the broadest content palette from which to deliver sophisticated, compelling user experiences. Extensive video capabilities within Director MX allow developers to stream video files that are minutes or hours in length and natively supported with QuickTime, RealVideo, and AVI. New users will benefit from the ability to create content using drag-and-drop behaviors, while experienced users can use Lingo, the powerful, object-oriented scripting language in Director. Director MX enables users to launch and edit Macromedia Flash from within Director to make quick content changes, and also gives developers direct control over Macromedia Flash MX content through Lingo. Director MX is integrated with Macromedia Flash server technologies including Macromedia Flash Remoting to enable a secure, high performance connection between Macromedia ColdFusion MX and Shockwave Player, and Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX for multi-user games, streaming Macromedia Flash video, and real-time collaboration.

Director now includes advanced debugging features such as an Object Inspector with data browser functionality and color-coding of recently changed variables. A unified script and debugging window, split-pane message window, and script window buttons reduce development time. Macromedia Director MX, expected to ship in December, is priced at $1,199 for new users, $399 for users upgrading from versions 8.0 or 8.5, with educational pricing at $499. Government and corporate volume licensing will also be available. Director MX, which is available for Mac OS X 10.1 or higher, and for Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, will be available online at the Macromedia Store and in the U.S. and Canada in December 2002. Localized versions for French, German, and Japanese will be available at a later date. Macromedia Shockwave Player will not be updated for this release. Director MX will ship with a copy of Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX, Personal Edition.

(http://www.macromedia.com/go/director), (http://www.macromedia.com/go/dirmxnew)

eMotion, Inc., a provider of digital media management software and services, has announced that Diageo, Newsplayer Group, and The Zipatoni Company are among recent additions to its roster of clients. Each selected a media management solution from eMotion's new family of products--MediaPartner Enterprise, ArchivePartner and CreativePartner. In addition, eMotion announced the release of version 4.5 of its digital media management software for its family of products. Diageo, a premium drinks business, chose eMotion's MediaPartner Enterprise solution for secure media management and online collaboration for consistent branding efforts worldwide. The Zipatoni Company, a promotions agency, chose eMotion's CreativePartner product to facilitate an online creative review and approval process for its media assets. NPG, Inc., a subsidiary of Newsplayer Group plc, chose eMotion's ArchivePartner product to introduce new benefits to Footage.net, a Web portal for stock video footage. eMotion's release of version 4.5 of MediaPartner Enterprise, ArchivePartner, and CreativePartner builds upon the software's core media management technology while adding improved capabilities, including: expanded support of Illustrator, EPS, PDF, and Microsoft Office file formats; improved functionality of the eMotion Viewer, which allows for annotation on low resolution proxy assets (thumbnails and Quicktime); provides more flexibility and control over user session management;  virtual "lightbox"/folder creation allows users to easily group and share assets; and more sophisticated user interface with an intuitive design.

(http://www.emotion.com)

Watchfire Corporation, a provider of Web site Management software and services, has announced the release of version 2.0 of Watchfire WebXM. WebXM automates Web site testing and analysis to help detect and manage content quality, privacy, and accessibility issues on large enterprise Web sites. WebXM 2.0 introduces a standalone Web accessibility testing module designed to help organizations test their site's level of standards compliance, including the U.S. Government's Section 508 and the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). This release also introduces integration with content management systems through a new Web Service interface, and a fully documented Software Development Kit (SDK). WebXM 2.0 introduces a Web Service interface that integrates the functionality of WebXM with other software applications. Using Web Services, Web content can be automatically checked by WebXM at any stage in the Web development workflow process and can be accepted or rejected. Providing an automated compliance step allows customers to catch Web site errors and check Web standards before content goes live on their Web sites, helping to improve site quality and lower production costs. The WebXM platform comprises three modules and three optional plug-ins. The modules, QualityXM, PrivacyXM, and AccessibilityXM are designed to help manage issues across all Web properties. QualityXM scans Web properties and reports on content and interaction issues such as broken links, broken forms, slow loading pages, faulty purchase checkouts, poor searchability, and usability problems. PrivacyXM generates detailed privacy reports to identify information collection, privacy policy linking (including P3P), user tracking, and Web page security practices to help manage potential privacy risks. Developed for large, multi-user environments, AccessibilityXM integrates the accessibility testing capabilities of Watchfire's standalone Web site accessibility tool, Bobby, with the scanning and reporting capabilities of WebXM technology. WebXM 2.0 is available from Watchfire's direct sales force and is also available as a managed service offering.

(http://www.watchfire.com)

Atomz, a provider of enterprise site search technology, predicts that the proposed acquisition of Inktomi Corp. by Verity Inc. will provide Inktomi's customers with an opportunity to consider other site search options. Atomz is offering Inktomi customers a discount of 33% off the list price of Atomz's enterprise site search solution, Atomz Search, as an incentive to switch. For those customers facing renewal contracts with Inktomi, Atomz will match the price of Inktomi's service and support agreements (minimum of $10,000 per year). Atomz Search is designed to allow site managers to control every aspect of the application's configuration, including indexing frequency and scope, search results page layout, and metadata search ranking and relevancy. Atomz also announced pricing adjustments that will allow its customers to make side-by-side price comparisons with Google's Search Appliance. Effective immediately, Atomz will match Google's two-year contract rate, but deliver higher search traffic capacity (up to 600 searches per minute vs. 60 per minute for the Google Search Appliance), as well as offer customers a one-year contract option.

(http://www.atomz.com)

Clearswift, a provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, has announced new functionality and enhancements to its ENTERPRISEsuite software. ENTERPRISEsuite is designed to meet the needs of security and IT executives seeking control of electronic communications and to reduce costs and risks of spam, pornography, loss of intellectual property and breaches of confidentiality. It delivers the epolicy infrastructure and the enforcement technology required to deploy a comprehensive management and security solution across multiple protocols, locations, and servers. New components are: ClearPoint PMI--a central management infrastructure providing a single point of control for the distribution, replication and enforcement of messaging policy; ClearSecure--an encryption engine enabling secure messaging; and ClearEdge--a content filtering engine for SMTP gateway email. Other components available, or to be announced at future dates are: ClearSurf--an HTTP & FTP content filtering engine for internet access; ClearBase--an engine for filtering internal mail content, for both Exchange and Domino; 3rd Party Interfaces--interfaces for third-party solutions such as anti-virus, firewall and URL blocking products; and Active ePolicy Services--a range of consultancy and technical services designed to help organizations realize the maximum benefit from ENTERPRISEsuite.

(http://www.clearswift.com)

Endeavor Information Systems has released enhanced software for libraries to extend their electronic database collections with the latest commercial release for LinkFinderPlus. Endeavor's advanced linking system bridges the gap between citations and the online full-text of articles, in an effort to provide maximum usage of the library's electronic journal subscriptions. Library staff will find increased productivity in making resources available for researchers. LinkFinderPlus 3.0 includes batch activation of the LinkFinderPlus Knowledge Base and batch maintenance of the Knowledge Base post-implementation. Delivered with over 13,000 targets to link to full-text and abstracts for citations, the LinkFinderPlus Knowledge Base is designed for minimal staff maintenance once the library activates their local subscriptions. Additionally, LinkFinderPlus 3.0 allows libraries to enable immediate access to electronic journals as they become available with a local option to add journal sites. Libraries can now customize the LinkFinderPlus 3.0 display to match the libraries' local look and feel; ensuring researchers find a smooth transition to full-text of articles. Interoperability with CrossRef, a not-for-profit network founded on publisher collaboration is now available. This makes reference linking efficient and reliable, and enables LinkFinderPlus users to link with CrossRef for the resolution of DOIs sent using the OpenURL proposed standard. This allows the LinkFinderPlus software to consider the local library's subscriptions and preferences before generating links to full text.

(http://www.crossref.org), (http://www.endinfosys.com)

More than a million reviews on more than 700,000 books are now searchable with the expansion of the Book Review Digest-which has now become Book Review Digest Plus. Available on WilsonWeb, Book Review Digest Plus draws content from thousands of periodicals beyond the former base of 109. Users can now retrieve full-text reviews in addition to excerpts and citations, and-besides general fiction and nonfiction-reference works, books for children and textbooks are covered. Book Review Digest Plus lets users search reviews by keyword, book title, article title, author, source, and more. "Master" records for each book, linking to reviews from various publications, make for convenient and comprehensive searching. A library holdings indicator (linking to the library's OPAC) lets users know if they'll find cited books and periodicals on the shelves. The new Book Review Digest Plus extends the coverage once offered by Book Review Digest, drawing review content from WilsonWeb periodicals databases including: Readers' Guide Full Text; Wilson Business Full Text; Humanities Full Text; Education Full Text; Art Full Text; General Science Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text; Applied Science & Technology Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index; Index to Legal Periodicals & Books; and Social Sciences Full Text. Book Review Digest Plus is updated daily, and retrospective coverage reaches as far back as 1983. The classic Book Review Digest remains available on CD-ROM and in print.

(http://www.hwwilson.com)