Applied Semantics, Inc. unveiled the addition of four new taxonomies as extensions to its Auto-Categorizer product. The four taxonomies, supplementing the existing ODP (Open Directory Project) and International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) taxonomy portfolio, include: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) based on the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus of more than 20,000 top-level headings used by NLM for indexing articles; the U.S. Department of Labor’s SIC (Standard Industrial Classification System); the UNSPSC (Universal Standard Products and Services Classification), a 13,000-plus category taxonomy for classifying products and services of, for buy- and sell-side catalogs; and an 800-category taxonomy consisting of country codes standardized around the ISO 3166 alpha-2 code schema, enhanced with U.S. states and major U.S. and international cities. These industry-standard taxonomies are “plug-and-play” modules that can be individually licensed to enhance Applied Semantics Auto-Categorizer. www.appliedsemantics.com
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Stratify, Inc. announced an alliance and reseller agreement with Inktomi Corp. Inktomi and Stratify will offer joint customers a scalable, integrated categorized search solution ideal for large, information-intensive enterprises. Additionally, Inktomi will resell the Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search through its sales force. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is a categorization solution optimized for Inktomi search technology that delivers direct navigation of sophisticated topic hierarchies. The combined Inktomi-Stratify solution enables enterprises to create a unified, searchable topic hierarchy that spans the organization. The Stratify Discovery System for Inktomi Enterprise Search is available immediately. Inktomi Enterprise Search is sold separately. www.stratify.com
Seybold Seminars, a Key3Media Group Inc. event, announced a strategic alliance with Frank Gilbane, publisher of the Gilbane Report and Marion Elledge, executive vice president of IDEAlliance, to co-produce two educational conferences. The two conferences will debut at Seybold San Francisco 2002, September 9-12, 2002 at the Moscone Center. The Gilbane Conference on Content Management, will be held Wednesday-Thursday, September 11-12, and will focus on the integration, organization, and communication of content for a wide range of business applications. The IDEAlliance Conference on XML in Publishing at Seybold Seminars, scheduled for Monday-Tuesday, September 9-10, 2002 will focus on standards, business models and emerging technologies as they relate to automating the publishing supply chain. The Seybold San Francisco 2002 conference program will feature both Enterprise Publishing and Seybold Seminars PDF Conferences that debuted at Seybold Seminars New York 2002. The conference program will also include enhanced educational programs such as the popular “Hot Technology Days,” and tutorial sessions. www.seyboldseminars.com/sf2002, www.gilbane.com, www.idealliance.org, www.key3media.com
Pageflex, Inc., announced expansion of its dynamic publishing product line with the addition of .EDIT (pronounced DOT EDIT), a real-time, browser-based application for the design and editing of sophisticated desktop publishing documents. With .EDIT, companies can create Web sites with a library of well-designed document templates and allow any authorized Web site visitor to create customized versions of these documents, containing full-featured typography and graphic design elements, using a Web browser and an Internet connection. .EDIT enables companies to offer document editing capabilities to customers, employees, marketing partners, and dealers or franchise owners — all through their standard Web site and without requiring the use of any plug-ins. A company deploying .EDIT on its Web site can create templates that allow it to maintain its brand/corporate identity by using approved fonts, design elements, and images. www.pageflexinc.com
Autonomy and Hyperwave will work together to deliver Autonomy’s infrastructure technology and Hyperwave’s eKnowledge solutions, and will recommend each other’s technologies. The two organizations will pursue joint opportunities and support each other’s marketing efforts. www.autonomy.com, www.hyperwave.com
Stellent, Inc. announced a new Audio Video Indexer module to help businesses access, manage and deliver video, audio and graphical business content. Stellent Audio Video Indexer provides content indexing and search functions for rich media content, using voice recognition software to enable users to index and full-text search video files. This function allows a user to find video files that contain a certain word or phrase, and once located, the user can also find the exact location in the video file in which the word or phrase was mentioned. Audio Video Indexer can also search the content within a video file and provide a “thumbnail” – or a quick visual representation – of this content on the screen displaying the search results. Audio Video Indexer expands Stellent’s current content management capabilities for rich media and digital asset management, which include: conversion, thumbnailing, compression, aggregation and distribution. www.stellent.com/richmedia
Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server Integration Pack. The new offering provides customers with a comprehensive and well-integrated portal, content management, search and document management solution, giving Microsoft customers a single-vendor end-to-end solution for document collaboration and publishing that is fully supported by Microsoft Product Support Services. The integration pack is available as a free download for MSDN subscribers today at www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=38801. The pack includes a prescriptive architecture guide to help customers make the most of the integration and can be used immediately or extended to meet unique customer requirements. www.microsoft.com
Software AG, Inc. announced the general availability of XML Mediator, a tool for building XML information exchange hubs. XML Mediator manages XML interactions that discover relevant information and uses that information to trigger behavior, such as routing documents or messages to an appropriate destination or transforming the content to other XML formats or presentation styles such as HTML, PDF or WML. XML Mediator provides a framework for addressing the problem of diverse XML vocabularies in much the same way as humans have addressed it for centuries: discover patterns in the information, translate it to a more familiar terminology, and transcribe it into some standardized form. Industries such as healthcare, insurance, energy, chemical and petroleum are defining XML-based standards that simplify information exchange. XML Mediator has the ability to support data exchange standards such as ACORD, IFX, FIXML, PIDX and CIDX. www.softwareagusa.com
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