The holy grail of corporate intranets is a single,
one-stop-shop search box that will retrieve documents and data from all
internal and external collections. For some this means Google, but the
fact is that no search engine can find information stored everywhere.
This article describes the pros and cons of 5 strategies for searching
multiple collections with one search box: connector code, XML feeds, federated
search, metadata harvesting, search engine bridges.
This month's entries include articles on best practices
for shareable metadata, social networking for bookworms, the battle for
mindshare between traditional, fee-based bibliographic services and Internet
search engines like Google and Yahoo.
What's the best way to provide enterprise-wide access
to information stored on collaborative Web sites? In this face-to-face
roundtable, Rob Joachim of the MITRE Corporation will describe how his
organization uses Google to search Sharepoint content.
Metadata & search
(Face-to-face seminar, October 4, 2006, McLean VA)
Learn how to create and maintain metadata structures
(taxonomies) and expose them for use by a metadata-aware search engine
such as Autonomy's Ultraseek. As an option, you can create your own metadata
using a Web-based Lab and experiment with search engine interface functions.
Lab includes individual mentoring for IT/content teams.
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site
based on last month's server statistics.
COURSES The following courses in the Knowledge
Base Publishing series can be taken on site or over the Web with individual
mentoring and a hands-on Lab.
