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NewsBreaks
New Search Engine Promises Relevance, Now
by Avi Rappoport
The new search engine, NowRelevant.com, says that it will find, "everything about your subject for the past two weeks." The name promises relevance, but what does that even mean? Information science researchers have been trying to understand it for over fifty years, and it's become clear that relevance is in the eye of the beholder. Some beholders may love NowRelevant.com—others may not.

Weekly News Digests
LexisNexis to Enrich Content with SRA’s NetOwl
LexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com) announced that it has signed an agreement with SRA International, Inc. (www.sra.com) to implement SRA's text analytics product NetOwl as its enterprise tool to deliver enhanced search and discovery capabilities for legal and business professionals. By integrating NetOwl's entity, link, and event extraction capabilities into its solutions, LexisNexis will create a richer set of metadata for each piece of text-based content it offers. This enrichment will deliver a more sophisticated semantic search capability, answer filtering, and analytics to LexisNexis customers—enhancing their ability to quickly find and analyze the information they need from across large enterprise databases.
EOS International Enters Digital Library Market
Library automation vendor EOS International (www.eosintl.com) has announced EOS.Web Digital, designed for libraries whose collections are stored in digital, electronic formats. The application and digital content may be stored on a local network server or accessed remotely from one of the company's global data centers.
Google Announces Additions to Biking Information in Google Maps
Google began adding added U.S. biking directions to Google Maps in March 2010 (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/biking-directions-added-to-google-maps.html) and said it was eager to see the response from the cycling community. (Select "Bicycling" from the "more" dropdown menu on the map or click on the bicycle icon when asking for directions.) Through its partnership with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, it had detailed bike lane and trail information for 150 cities; and for the rest of the country, it recommended routes based on other data such as the size of the road, speed of traffic, and hill steepness. Through its "Report a problem" tool, any user can send corrections or recommend improvements, and receive notifications from Google when their report has been resolved.

NewsLink Spotlight
Digital Lending Goes into OverDrive
by Paula J. Hane
I'd been hearing some buzz this summer about various improvements made by OverDrive to its services for libraries—more content, mobile apps, simplified procedures, etc. OverDrive is a full-service digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video that first launched its online digital warehouse in 2000. So, I caught up with the company's vice president of marketing, David Burleigh, for an extended conversation on what's new and what's coming. While OverDrive offers publishers a secure, web-based, wholesale distribution service for the sale and delivery of digital media, I didn't get into the details of that side of the business. Our discussion focused on what OverDrive offers libraries and their patrons.

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Bookshelf
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
by Heather Hedden
Foreword by Stephanie Lemieux
The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensive English.

In this fully revised third edition, Hedden adds an entirely new chapter on ontologies, emphasizes the SKOS model of concepts over the traditional thesaurus model of terms, and provides new insights into taxonomy development techniques. She presents fresh survey data; new screenshots and examples; and updated information on software, career opportunities, and resources for taxonomists.

2022/502pp softbound/ISBN 978-1-57387-586-8 | $47.50


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