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Lars Bauer

Search at the Foundation of the Enterprise | LLRX.com - 0 views

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Recommind concept-search enterprise-search search semantic-search software theory

shared by Lars Bauer on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Lars Bauer on 14 Jan 09
     
    "Businesses and firms are being overwhelmed with electronic records. Enterprise search offers a promising way to deal with the growth of electronically stored information. However, not all search technologies are well adapted to serve as the search backbone for an enterprise. While key word searching may help find some documents in document collections, more sophisticated search technologies are called for to assimilate and organize content across the enterprise. We have found that Recommind's Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) search engine is particularly well-suited for law firm and professional services environments, both because of the inherent power of PLSA and because Recommind's strong and diverse search platform is focused on solving problems inherent in the legal enterprise."
Lars Bauer

SocialText Blog: DMS and Collaboration Suite: Friends not Foes - 0 views

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ECM Socialtext basics collaboration dm enterprise2.0 software wikis

shared by Lars Bauer on 13 Jan 09 - Cached
  • What's the relationship between a document management system (DMS) and an enterprise collaboration suite like Socialtext?
  • Would Socialtext replace the DMS? Would the two work together?
  • The first thing that companies should understand is that document management and collaboration are distinct activities.
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  • Document management is all about workflow, control, and risk mitigation. Its objective is summarized perfectly by the two words in its name: "documents" and "management". It got its start in the legal departments of pharmaceutical companies, who were concerned to make sure that their companies were producing documentation in full compliance with regulatory requirements. A DMS thrives where there are a) documents already being created as part of a business process; and b) those documents need to be closely checked in, checked out, supervised, edited, approved, and stored following a consistent and audit-proof process.
  • Collaboration, by contrast, is all about people working together to share ideas, notes, questions, comments, etc. Collaboration does not typically follow a standard process; it is much more free-form and free-flowing. Documents are not typically the format of choice. Asking a question or creating a meeting agenda or to-do list doesn't require a document; it just requires typing some words and putting them where other people can see and edit them. That's why so many people simply fire off an email when they collaborate; it spares them the unnecessary step of creating a document.
  • When asked about the relationship between DMS and collaboration tools, what I said was that some of the content in a typical DMS really belongs there. These are the documents associated with highly regulated processes. But most of the content in a typical DMS--to-do lists, meeting notes, press clippings, conversations, working papers, personal observations--doesn't really belong there. It's in the DMS because there was no good place to put it. That's where a collaboration suite can do a much better job. A good collaboration suite can liberate that content from the tyranny of documents and nested folders, and will encourage people to use it for actual working materials.
  • In many cases, you will want to integrate the two. Law firms, for example, are absolutely dependent on their document management systems to manage their filings and other legal documents. But we're increasingly seeing them set up collaboration suites to capture all the discussion around the documents, how to use them, what they mean, and so on. The two systems are integrated with links from the collaboration suite into the corresponding DMS records.
  • What I'm saying amounts to this: Use your document management system to manage documents, and use your collaboration suite to collaborate.
  • unfortunately SocialText is not very good at linking to the documents in the obvious place (attachments).
  • Lars Bauer on 13 Jan 09
     
    Sept. 8, 2008, by Michael Idinopulos of Socialtext
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3 Geeks and a Law Blog: The Search for Meaning - 0 views

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KM concept-search search semantic-search wordsearch

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  • First there is an effort to better structure information as it is captured. Second, there are efforts to create structure out of chaotic information (a.k.a. BLOBs), which is where next-generation search tools come into play.
  • For now I will break search into three categories: Keyword, Concept and Semantic.
  • Keyword or word searching, for this discussion, is that of searching for exact word matches.
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  • The keyword method has been very useful to-date, especially when searching within large structured databases. It allows users to search by date, location, category, etc., to come up with useful results.
  • The problem with keyword searching is the expanding mass of unstructured information we now have. Keyword searching has become inadequate and at times counter productive to finding the right information quickly and affordably.
  • Concept search is one method for solving this problem. My definition: The ability to extract structure from unstructured data.
  • Concept searching is just coming into the market, with players like Recommind, Autonomy and Collexis. As an emerging technology, the challenge is good implementation. Companies and firms are attacking this problem now, so I would expect this challenge to diminish over time.
  • Semantic search is truly Web 3.0. Sir Tim suggested this concept over a decade ago and now efforts are under way to make it a reality. My definition: Attach meaning to each piece of data. In practice this means describing each piece of information by its relationship to another piece. In the geek world this is referred to as “subject, predicate, object” and is defined with a standard called RDF (more on that in another post).
  • In fact in this environment the machine can discover knowledge. By connecting all the triples via their relationships, the machine will answer questions we never ask.
  • Semantic search currently lives mostly in the minds of geeks and venture capitalists (with some exceptions).
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Getty Images Drives New Business Opportunities with Enterprise Social Software | Enterp... - 0 views

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shared by Lars Bauer on 27 Aug 10 - Cached
  • In their own words, Getty Images wanted to build “a community-based, interactive platform to transform the way employees share and receive information at Getty Images.”
  • With Getty Images’ enterprise social software platform, every employee has a homepage where he or she can access links to company systems (Learning Management System, Performance Management, Travel, Expense Reimbursement, etc.), internal social networking tools (microblogging, blogs, profiles) and personal accounts (email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). This is made simple by Socialtext’s embrace of OpenSocial, an open web standard that makes it easy to surface applications and content of any kind inside of widgets that people can customize on a personal homepage.
  • We are excited to introduce the Socialtext platform, which we have branded ‘Mixer’ to our employees.”
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