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"It is hard to predict what the major challenge in search will be 100 years from now. The challenge may not even be related to information retrieval itself but could be the result of shortages of electricity, network disruptions due to insurgencies, information manipulation or access denial by an uncontrolled computer-based artificial intelligence (as imagined in the science fiction movie The Terminator). Of course, we could simply extrapolate the current ongoing trends, which we know do have an effect on information storage and retrieval, and might hope this gives an indication of some of the challenges that may affect finding and understanding information in a long-term perspective. In this article our focus will be on challenges that can be traced back to Time. Search is a two-sided issue: On one side, once data has been generated it has to be stored somewhere (on volatile or non-volatile media) and this stored data must somehow be accessible to a search or indexing engine; on the other side are the processes of search, retrieval and analysis of the data."

"Endeca's revolutionary Information Access Platform (IAP) is the foundation of all our enterprise search solutions, and enables your business to rapidly and cost-effectively configure and deploy search applications that fit your business needs. By delivering configurable search-based business applications that offer any user interactive access to large volumes of any type of data, no matter the source or location, Endeca's IAP has differentiated itself from all other enterprise search technologies. With our innovative IAP, you'll have comprehensive functionality for connecting to and indexing enterprise content, and then exposing that information to your customers or employees with specific information needs."

"In this paper we propose a multi-agent Selective Dissemination of Information service to improve the research community's access to digital library resources. The service also provides a new recommendation approach to satisfy researchers' specific information requirements." "Semantic Web technologies and fuzzy linguistic modelling provide the means to develop value-added services for digital libraries, which improve users' access to resources of interest to them. Furthermore, the recommendation approach here proposed allows researchers to satisfy specific information needs not covered by traditional recommender systems."

"This Delphi Research report is one of an ongoing series examining the state of the technology and the level of business practice in the critical and related areas of information intelligence. These include information architecture, enterprise search, taxonomy/classification, text and web analytics, and a wide range of new business applications grounded in information intelligence technologies."

"Cluuz.com takes results and applies semantic processes to them. Some of the company's display options are a bit too sophisticated for my 64-year-young eyes, but I found the system quite useful. (...) The system offers other ways to view the results set. For example, you can look at hits from the search engines to which the query is passed as a traditional laundry list. Other choices include a cluster display and a Flash display which is, in my opinion, cluttered with sliders, controls, and options."\n"Cluuz technology is incorporated into Sprylogics enterprise products where it provides search and disambiguation capabilities for both internal and external data. Enterprises using Cluuz technology can do a single search for all sources of information that they have access to. The results are pulled from unstructured information from within the firewall and reconciled with the results pulled from the web, thereby forming a complete intelligence picture. This capability allows users to very effectively expand their knowledge on a topic for which they already have information internally."

"There are several kinds of conceptual models for information seeking and retrieval (IS&R). The paper suggests that some models are of a summary type and others more analytic. Such models serve different research purposes. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the functions of conceptual models in scientific research, in IS&R research in particular. What kind of models are there and in what ways may they help the investigators? What kinds of models are needed for various purposes? In particular, we are looking for models that provide guidance in setting research questions, and formulation of hypotheses. As a example, the paper discusses [at length] one analytical model of task-based information seeking and its contribution to the development of the research area."

"This paper details a way to extend classic information architecture for web-based applications. The goal is to enhance traditional user experiences, mainly based on navigation or search, to new ones (also relevant for stakeholders' requirements). "

This article will explore the space between Summon's out-of-the-box user interface and full developer API, providing practical advice on tweaking configuration information and catalog exports to take full advantage of Summon's indexing and faceting features. The article then describes the creation of OSUL's home-grown open source availability service which replaced and enhanced the availability information that Summon would normally pull directly from the catalog.

"Web Search engines most often operate on the idea that their tools are supposed to represent the fastest way between a user's search query and a site that will represent a fitting information content to satisfy a "information need". The main challenge is therefore about building ranking algorithms that will find the "best" site and put it into first place. While this approach has been highly successful it also neglects the user's ability to interact, select, navigate, analyze - in short, to be an active agent and a stakeholder in the search process. Our proposal is the technical manifestation of a simple concept: instead of reducing the search phase to a minimum we believe that there is much to be gained by presenting a semantically rich interface to users; this interface can be used to either navigate in a list of results (1000 in the case of our current prototype) or to refine the search query. The "termcloud" and "cluster" views give a quick overview of a topic by showing which terms are significant, their relative frequency and the relations that exist between them. This way the user gets an idea of the topic before even visiting a Web site from the result list. We hope that this approach will help users in digging deeper than the first couple of results and explore the regions of the Web that might not be so easy to find with a regular, hit-driven search engine."

"A patent application published by Microsoft at the end of 2009 hinted at an evolution in search results that goes beyond blending into those results a mix of information from other types of search results. The document describes something referred to as "query portals." The patent application is: Query-Driven Web Portals Invented by Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Venkatesh Ganti, Dong Xin, Sanjay Agrawal, and Arnd Christian Konig Assigned to Microsoft US Patent Application 20090327223 Published December 31, 2009 Filed: June 26, 2008 Abstract: The described implementations relate to query portals. One technique analyzes search results generated by a web search engine responsive to a user search query. The technique also dynamically generates a query portal that lists the search results as well as entities identified from the search results. In addition to providing search results for a specific query, we're told that the search engine will also include "complementary information derived from the search results." "

Signets de Sylvie Dalbin autour des moteurs de recherche. Voir aussi les tags : moteur-de-recherche(exemple) recherche recherche-contenu-illustration(sujet) recherche-contenu-image(sujet) recherche-contenu(sujet) recherche-développement(nature_info) recherche-facette(exemple) recherche-facette(sujet) recherche-fédérée(exemple) recherche-fédérée(sujet) recherche-filtre(sujet) recherche-information(exemple) recherche-information(sujet) recherche-multilingue(sujet) recherche-par-graphe(sujet) recherche-personnalisable(sujet) recherche-question-reponse(sujet) recherche-tri(sujet) recherche(domaine) recherche(sujet)

"Many libraries are now designing and implementing their own tools to meet users' needs for search and data discovery. The aim of this study is to share the experiences of the HAM-TMC Library, one of the largest US medical libraries, in creating and implementing such a tool. Many libraries accept federated search and other technologies directly from their library management system vendors as the simplest way to proceed with implementing new technologies. The HAM-TMC Library recognized that its particular information environment required learning the "problem space" thoroughly before investigating available options. As a result, the new tool the Library is providing is much more likely to meet specific user information needs."

"The change that libraries will need to make in response must include the transformation of the library's public catalog from a stand-alone database of bibliographic records to a highly hyperlinked data set that can interact with information resources on the World Wide Web. The library data can then be integrated into the virtual working spaces of the users served by the library. If all of this sounds otherworldly and vague, it is because there is no specific vision of where these changes will lead us. The crystal ball is unfortunately shortsighted, in no small part because this is a time of rapid change in many aspects of the information ecology. The few things that are certain, however, point to the Web, and its eventual successors, as the place to be. For libraries, this means yet another evolutionary step in the library of our catalog: from metadata to metaDATA."

"Crystal Mapping, like mind mapping, concept mapping and other graphical organisers and brainstorming tools arranges information in a joined up visual context to help improve thinking, learning, understanding and knowledge. Crystal Maps use circles, the universal symbol of unity, rather than nodes and lines to connect ideas. Consequently your maps are more structured and instinctively seen as forming a 'whole that is greater than the sum of its parts'. This helps you plan, communicate and present insights and share and collaborate on projects because people can see 'the bigger picture' context. This new approach is a step on the road to new and better ways of managing projects and information complexity through visual means."

"Metasearch, parallel search, federated search, broadcast search, cross-database search, search portal are a familiar part of the information community's vocabulary. They speak to the need for search and retrieval to span multiple databases, sources, platforms, protocols, and vendors at one time. Metasearch services rely on a variety of approaches to search and retrieval including open standards (such as NISO's Z39.50), proprietary API's, and screen scraping. However, the absence of widely supported standards, best practices, and tools makes the metasearch environment less efficient for the system provider, the content provider, and ultimately the end-user. "

"Les interfaces graphiques de recherche relèvent presque toutes d'un modèle unique et primaire : un champ de saisie uniligne et un bouton permettant de valider la requête saisie dans le champ. Face à la diversité des individus et de leurs besoins en informations, de nombreuses techniques de visualisation et d'interaction innovantes ont émergés ces dix dernières années. Pourtant ces innovations sont rarement utilisées et le but de cet article est de faire le point sur l'état de l'art des techniques de visualisation et d'interaction qui peuvent être pertinentes pour la recherche d'information."

"Many Web 2.0 services (including Library 2.0 catalogs) make use of folksonomies. The purpose of this paper is to cut off all tags in the long tail of a document-specific tag distribution. The remaining tags at the beginning of a tag distribution are considered power tags and form a new, additional search option in information retrieval systems. In a theoretical approach the paper discusses document-specific tag distributions (power law and inverse-logistic shape), the development of such distributions (Yule-Simon process and shuffling theory) and introduces search tags (besides the well-known index tags) as a possibility for generating tag distributions."

"The software powering Open Library is centered around a flexible templating system that enables anyone to have control over the organization of their information display. It is designed to be simple to use, to encourage participation, yet powerfully modular through the application of macros and principles of networked interface. In this document, we will review existing technologies, explain concepts, present a framework for discussion and outline a plan to meet those goals for a full site launch in October 2009."

"The Wayne State Library System launched its library mapping application in February 2010, designed to help locate materials in the five WSU libraries. The system works within the catalog to show the location of materials, as well as provides a web form for use at the reference desk. Developed using PHP and MySQL, it requires only minimal effort to update using a unique call number overlay mechanism. In addition to mapping shelved materials, the system provides information for any of the over three hundred collections held by the WSU Libraries. Patrons can do more than just locate a book on a shelf: they can learn where to locate reserve items, how to access closed collections, or get driving maps to extension center libraries. The article includes a discussion of the technology reviewed and chosen during development, an overview of the system architecture, and lessons learned during development."

"The main utility is to provide internal search function within organization's document repository. Options include other vital functions like powering a consumer facing search, providing targeted Web search to the workers inside the corporation, external news monitoring and alerting, harvesting quality content from the Web to enrich organizations' information repository, and categorization of documents for better management."