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Welcome to the InfoToday 2002 online Conference and Exhibition Tip Sheet. As exhibitors and speakers provide information it will be posted here. Along with the press conference and keynote schedule. This will be updated regularly and emailed out to registered working press the week before the show. Let us know if you have additions, corrections or questions. |
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Press Center for InfoToday 2002 is the Morgan Suite of the NY Hilton and Towers. I should be on site on Monday afternoon...from then on your badges will be waiting in the Press Center. Kathryn Pinto who works for me on the West Coast will also be on site from Tuesday morning onward. Cell phones will be on all week (mine is 203-829-5613 and Kathryn’s is 415-845-5114) |
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Applied Semantics |
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New at InfoToday |
New Portfolio of Taxonomies |
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Launch a set of four new out-of-the-box taxonomies that support Auto-Categorizer 1.1. |
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Applied Semantics develops innovative software solutions that enable businesses to better organize, manage and retrieve digital information in Web-enabled, enterprise and e-commerce environments. Applied Semantics' solutions are based on the company's award-winning CIRCA Technology, which understands, organizes, and extracts knowledge from unstructured content in a way that mimics human thought and language, allowing for more effective information retrieval. |
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APPLIED SEMANTICS UNVEILS NEW INDUSTRY TAXONOMIES TO SUPPORT AUTO-CATEGORIZATION MeSH, SIC, UNSPSC, and ISO Geography Taxonomies Strengthen Out-of-the-Box Capabilities LOS ANGELES, May 14, 2002 - Applied Semantics, Inc., a leading software tools and applications provider for unstructured information management, today unveiled the addition of four new taxonomies as extensions to its Auto-Categorizer product, a content categorization solution that maps documents into one or multiple pre-defined or customer-specified hierarchies of categories without the need for time-consuming training of the software with sets of documents or the complexity of programming specific rules. The four industry-standard taxonomies, supplementing the existing ODP (Open Directory Project) and International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) taxonomy portfolio, include: · MeSH (Medical Subject Headings): National Library of Medicine's (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus consists of more than 20,000 top-level headings used by NLM for indexing articles from over 4,000 leading biomedical journals for the MEDLINE® database and for other NLM-produced databases that include cataloging of books, documents, and audiovisuals acquired by the Library. · SIC (Standard Industrial Classification System): The U.S. Department of Labor's system of 1000-plus four-level codes that is used to classify all business establishments by the types of products or services they offer. Most business directories and directory databases use the SIC codes to classify companies or businesses. · UNSPSC (Universal Standard Products and Services Classification): A 13,000-plus category taxonomy that is an open, global standard for providing a logical framework for classifying products and services of all kinds throughout the world, for buy- and sell-side catalogs or as a standardized account code in analyzing expenditures. · Geography Codes: An 800-category taxonomy consisting of country codes standardized around the ISO (International Organization of Standardization) 3166 alpha-2 code schema, enhanced with a list of 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. Customers can modify and extend the taxonomies for specific applications by using the Taxonomy Administrator tool integrated with Applied Semantics' Auto-Categorizer or by contracting with the Applied Semantics' Professional Services group. "Integrating support for these taxonomies is in direct response to customer requirements for specific new value-added capabilities in our Auto-Categorizer product," said Jordan Libit, CEO of Applied Semantics. "These additions will enable customers in pharmaceuticals / life sciences, publishing, and other industries to more quickly deploy business applications incorporating our categorization, summarization, and metadata creation capabilities within their enterprise content management solutions." "These additions to our Auto-Categorizer product provide those companies without an expansive taxonomy access to a broad series of samples they can easily use," said Gil Elbaz, co-founder and CIO of Applied Semantics. "Our customers can have a content categorization solution up and running in a matter of days or weeks and realize a rapid return on their investment without sizeable costs or complexities." Since you are attending the conference, please contact me directly to schedule a face-to-face briefing with Applied Semantics' CIO and co-founder Gil Elbaz. In the event you cannot attend, I am more than happy to coordinate a phone and WebEx briefing and demo for your convenience. Do not hesitate to contact me with any question or thoughts in advance of the conference. I can be reached at the information below. |
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News at Infotoday 2002 UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL MAY 14 |
On Tuesday, May 14, Applied Semantics will announce the addition of four new taxonomies to its robust Auto-Categorizer tool - including MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), SIC (Standard Industrial Codes), ISO Geographic Codes and UNSPSC (Universal Standard Products and Services Classification), requiring industry-specific applications little to no training time for integration. This announcement will be made at the InfoToday 2002 conference held in New York City at the New York Hilton and towers, May 14 - 16. Applied Semantics will be exhibiting at the this conference (booth #124) and would like to invite you to join us for a more comprehensive briefing and demo of this tool enhancement as well as the other enterprise content management solutions it offers. An advance copy of the embargoed release is below. |
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Applied Semantics develops innovative software solutions that enable businesses to better organize, manage and retrieve digital information in Web-enabled, enterprise, and e-commerce environments. Applied Semantics' solutions are based on the company's award-winning CIRCA technology, which understands, organizes, and extracts knowledge from unstructured content in a way that mimics human thought and language, allowing for more effective information retrieval. CIRCA is based on an extensive, highly scaleable ontology that consists of millions of words, meanings, and their conceptual relationships to other meanings in the human language. The expansive ontology enables customers to automatically generate meaningful metadata and taxonomies, categorize content, and summarize and search for information without the need for training sets or the complex development of rules. Developed by a team of leading computational linguists, lexicographers, artificial intelligence experts, and database architects, this ontology is the most comprehensive knowledge base of its kind in existence. Founded in 1998, Applied Semantics provides solutions that automate the processing of unstructured content in a variety of application environments, including enterprise portal deployments, content and document management systems, CRM, and search applications. The company was recently named one of the "100 Companies That Matter" by KMWorld Magazine. For more information, visit www.appliedsemantics.com. |
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Bairey & Bedford PR |
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Antarcti.ca's Visual Net 2.0 software is a next-generation knowledge management tool that improves the value of your database. Antarcti.ca's technology makes network data visual, just like desktop data. Displaying shared information on a visual map makes it more memorable and friendly for the end user. The result is greater return on your investment in your existing network deployments and databases. |
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News at the show |
At the Information Today show, Antarcti.ca is announcing that it has been selected by the National Library of Medicine to build a visual data map system for DIRLINE. This online database contains location and descriptive information about organizations, research resources, projects and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. |
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Antarcti.ca was founded in 1999 by XML co-inventor Tim Bray to help people make better use of ever-expanding, increasingly unorganized Intranets, Extranets, and the World Wide Web. Our innovative Visual Net technology creates general-purpose, large-scale maps of networks to help users visualize data and find what they're looking for with unprecedented levels of intuitiveness and efficiency - and have fun in the process. |
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Baron Center |
Friday, May 17 |
Security Issues in the Library Workplace |
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Security Issues in the Library Workplace; not about using or improving libraries; it's about staying alive in them |
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Our firm, Baron Center, Inc. is a national leader in the prevention of workplace violence. Our founder and CEO, Dr. Anthony Baron, wrote the first book in the country on this subject; I wrote the second. We have developed a practice area in California to train various libraries and library systems about understanding workplace violence, how to handle outrageous patron behavior, how to defend against various behavioral, criminal, and physical assaults by the amazingly wide variety of people out to act up in a library (gangsters, armed patrons, parents who abandon their children, Internet pedophiles, etc.). |
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ABOUT DR. STEVEN ALBRECHT, PHR, CPP, BCETS |
Dr. Steven Albrecht, PHR, CPP, BCETS, is President of Baron Center, Inc., a San Diego based consulting firm which is internationally recognized for its workplace violence prevention and intervention services and programs. Dr. Albrecht is internationally recognized for his expertise and experience in the areas of threat assessment and management, workplace violence, domestic violence in the workplace, stalking and crisis management. In 1994, Dr. Albrecht co-wrote Ticking Bombs: Defusing Violence in the Workplace, the second nationally published business book on workplace violence prevention. In addition to his frequent work as a conference presenter, he has appeared in print, on radio, on the Internet and on television over 75 times in support of his book. His media experiences include interviews for USA Today and CNBC. He has written 12 books, including Crisis Management for Corporate Self-Defense and Fear and Violence on the Job. Dr. Albrecht earned a B.A. in English from the University of San Diego, an M.A. in Security Management from Webster University (where he was named outstanding graduate of the year), and a doctoral degree in Business Administration (D.B.A.). He has been a trainer for over 15 years and is certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) by the Society for Human Resource Management; a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) by the American Society for Industrial Security; and he is a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress (BCETS) by the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. In addition to his role as a consultant and trainer, Dr. Albrecht is retired from the San Diego Police Department where he worked as a full-time officer and reserve sergeant. He worked part-time as an investigator in the San Diego Police Domestic Violence Unit and handled over 1,500 cases since 1993. He has also received over 48 hours training in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). Dr. Albrecht is a Course Leader for the American Management Association, teaching negotiation, management and H.R. supervision. He is also an adjunct professor for the Grossmont College Police Academy. He is the Secretary for the San Diego Chapter of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. He is a founding member of the San Diego County District Attorney's Stalking Case Assessment Team. |
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Dr. Steven Albrecht, from Baron Center, in San Diego, will present a three-hour post-conference workshop on violence in the library workplace. He has significant training experience with libraries, helping management and staff deal with threats, assaults, vandalism, gang behavior, pedophiles, abandoned children, and similar security-related incidents which can create fear. |
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Baron Center, Inc. is a San Diego-based consulting firm, which provides workplace violence training, consulting, threat assessment, and interventions. |
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ClearForest |
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ClearForest is the leading provider of content enhancement and advanced business analytics solutions, transforming unstructured content into valuable business intelligence. ClearForest’s products quickly tag any textual data for re-use as rich XML, and use advanced semantic, statistical and structural tagging technologies to extract critical information buried within documents. ClearForest results are then delivered to decision-makers in visual, interactive formats, allowing businesses to focus and act on the critical information, rather than search for it. |
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ClearForest is the leading provider of content enhancement and advanced business analytics solutions, transforming unstructured content into valuable business intelligence. Vertical industries that benefit from ClearForest include publishing/content aggregation, government intelligence, biotech, pharmaceutical, and financial services. Customers include Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak Co, Thomson Financial, and Ford Motor Company. |
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Comp Intelligence Ctr |
10:15-11:15n on 5/15 Press conference in Morgan suite on the Status of CI after 9/11 |
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Status of Competitive Intelli after 9/11 |
Jerry P. Miller, the director of the Competitive Intelligence Center at Simmons College in Boston, has surveyed over 125 business analysts regarding changes that have occurred in the competitive intelligence professions since the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The majority of respondents work in 22 various industries the U.S. and a few in Europe. Practitioners have changed the way they collect information. They have noticed that gathering information from corporate Web-sites has become more difficult and people are less willing to share information when interviewed. As a result, some practitioners are going over the gray line to retrieve information. Also, former government intelligence officers now working in the profession are selling their previously unacceptable skills to corporations. The heightened awareness about corporate security has affected the way their responsibilities are defined. They have heightened their security efforts and how they protect proprietary information. Corporate America has increased its use of competitive intelligence for counterintelligence and security topics. Also, the majority have re-examined the legal and ethical issues related to conducting competitive intelligence. However, in Europe, 9/11 has had less impact where security had already been an important function, particularly in Germany. The majority reported that research topics have expanded as additional issues are viewed as competitive. However, a major U.S. biotech firm and a major German-based pharmaceuticals firm reported little, if any, changes. Finally, the Anthrax scare impacted the direct mail function in the financial services and consumer package goods industries. |
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Dialog |
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AT INFOTODAY 2002: DIALOG IS 30 YEARS YOUNG |
Company to Demonstrate Recently Launched News, e-Journal and Company Profile Services CARY, N.C., USA (May 10, 2002) - Dialog, a Thomson business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that it will use its participation at the InfoToday 2002 conference, to be held May 14-16 at the New York Hilton in New York City, to mark the 30th anniversary of its founding and to demonstrate recently launched news, e-Journal linking and company profile services. The anniversary celebrations at InfoToday 2002 will be part of a series of programs and initiatives around the world to commemorate the company's role as a pioneer in the online information industry and its standing today as an innovative, customer-focused and technologically sophisticated leader serving information professionals and their organizations worldwide with information resources that are comprehensive, diverse and in-depth. Other anniversary initiatives include a special advertising campaign and receptions for customers, employees and affiliates around the world. "We are a company of 1,100 professionals who are passionate about the work we do and respectful of the critical role we play in the professional lives of our customers," said Cynthia Murphy, senior vice president for strategic marketing. "Ours is a unique role in the industry we serve. Since 1972, our growth as the first commercial online service has been both a catalyst for and the product of the growth of the profession of information specialist." Since its acquisition by The Thomson Corporation in 2000, Dialog has pursued excellence in its products and services, and in its role as a corporate citizen. The company now offers more than 35 products and services to its approximately 25,000 subscribing organizations worldwide. Two other leading information service providers, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data, are currently being integrated into Dialog. And the company remains the industry's most forceful proponent, through extensive and free professional development services, for enhancing the role of information professionals within their organizations. |
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Among the new products to be highlighted is NewsRoom, an online database that combines a planned 7,000 sources of continually updated news into a unified file that can be searched using one search command. NewsRoom includes broadcast transcripts, newspapers, periodicals, newswires, trade and scholarly journals and other content sources, in English and seven other languages, drawn from nearly 80 countries. Much of the content pool is continually updated as new articles and reports are added from publishers and information aggregators worldwide. Dialog will also demonstrate its recently launched Dialog Company Profiles service, which offers one-stop online access to comprehensive profiles of nearly 500,000 companies worldwide. The company will also highlight its expanded e-Journal linking features, which allow users of its Dialog® service to link seamlessly -- and without cost -- to the full texts of more than 8,000 scientific, medical and technical e-journals published by more than 40 leading scientific publishers and information aggregators. "Dialog today looks forward with confidence, mindful of our responsibilities to our customers, and excited by the opportunities that await us," said Murphy. "At InfoToday 2002, truly, Dialog is 30 years young." |
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Founded in 1972 by Dr. Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, Dialog is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. Today, Dialog's three online platforms -- Dialog®, Profound® and DataStarT -- offer users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.2 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. The content available ranges from articles and reports published in thousands of publications to in-depth repositories of patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data. Corporate librarians, knowledge managers and other information professionals at more than 25,000 business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching and speed. Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 32 countries throughout North American, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and the Asia Pacific, Dialog is a business of The Thomson Corporation. For more information about Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com. Or, please call (U.S./Canada) 800-3-DIALOG or (U.S.) +1 919-462-8600. Dialog's London office may be reached at (+44) (0) 207-940-6900. |
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About The Thomson Corporation |
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of $7.2 billion, is a leading provider of integrated information solutions to business and professional markets worldwide. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges (TSE: TOC). |
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Inmagic |
Booth 171 |
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inmagic.com |
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IntelliMagic is a powerful market intelligence product and enterprise took kit that allows non-technical users to easily develop custom applications. With IntelliMagic, you and your users are guaranteed the freshest, most complete information available on topics of interest so that decisions and actions can be made from a place of confidence and strength. |
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Inmagic is the global leader in providing Web-based information management software and services to the information professional market. Our mission is to help organizations prosper through the effective management and deployment of their information resources |
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Anne Mintz |
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John Bryans Cyberage Books Editor in Chief, Book Publishing Division |
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Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet. It's about intentional misinformation on the Internet. |
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NKR Associates' presentation |
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NKR Associates Inc has undertaken a study on Electronic Serials Management Solutions in Academic Libraries. Fort Lee, NJ, May 9, 2002 NKR Associates Inc. is studying libraries' and vendors' solutions for management and access to integrated lists of electronic and print periodical subscriptions. The study consists of a survey of current library practices and covers home-grown solutions as well as those of third party providers such as Openly Informatics, Journal WebCite.com, Serials Solutions, and others. Their results will be presented at the InfoToday2002 Conference in the New York Hilton, on May 15, 2002. The NKR study can save librarians valuable time and money before embarking on a program for integrating electronic and print subscription lists on their library's website. The project was undertaken by NKR Associates, Davida Scharf and Nancy M. Nelson. Ms. Scharf, spearheaded work in this area in 1999 publishing an article entitled "Interim Serials Management in the Real Virtual World" in Searcher Magazine. Since that time she has helped clients negotiate the complexities of serials management in a dynamic multi-media publishing environment. For additional information or to order a copy of the report, contact NKR Associates Inc, NKRinfo@NKRassociates.com. |
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NOTEbookS Library Automation |
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Beau Schless/ President/CEO NOTEbookS Library Automation |
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"A new tool provides integrated scanning and OCR support for Schless & Co's library automation product (NOTEbookS) and records management product (NORMA). The new tool, called "ISO" (Integrated Scanning and OCR), provides a one button capability to scan in hard copy, OCR the scanned pages into text, and create a multi-page Adobe Acrobat PDF file of the scanned material. A powerful benefit of ISO is to provide libraries the capability to generate e-books of internal materials. A second benefit, because of NOTEbookS' and NORMA's full text search capability, is that a company's legacy data can now be easily incorporated into their knowledge repository." The new tool is ready for immediate purchase as a NOTEbookS or NORMA Add-in, or for incorporation into a company's Notes databases. ISO will be on display at InfoToday in Booth 164". |
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QKS Classifier, the first product in the Quiver Knowledge Suite(tm), is a hybrid content categorization and taxonomy platform. Blending advanced auto-categorization technology with an intuitive directory management toolset, the end-to-end directory building application provides clear visibility into categorization decisions and offers maximum control of the end-user experience. QKS Classifier is based on an open product architecture that works with legacy systems while incorporating advanced feedback techniques to learn from information managers and end users. Its XML output easily integrates into existing intranet, extranet, enterprise information portal (EIP), corporate website or application views. QKS Classifier features include: taxonomy import and management, distributed administrative and directory management workflow tools, integrated search and browse capability, flexible rules-based publishing options and more. For additional product information, visit http://www.quiver.com/products/qks_classifier_datasheet.pdf. |
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Quiver, Inc. develops and markets information management software that provides the most intuitive and accurate view of enterprise content. Building on its core technology competencies in information classification, ranking and retrieval, the company delivers Quiver Knowledge Suite(tm) (QKS), a portfolio of information management products making Global 2000 enterprises more efficient and more productive. QKS Classifier(tm), the company's flagship product, is a hybrid taxonomy and content categorization platform that combines the efficiency of technology with the accuracy of human oversight, delivering the most accurate and manageable taxonomy for enterprise content management. Quiver is a privately held company with headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company is backed by leading venture capital firms including Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; London Merchant Securities; Weiss, Peck & Greer; El Dorado Ventures; Weber Capital and Partech International. The company's products are currently installed at a number of Global 2000 customers for knowledge management, enterprise portal, content management, customer relationship management, and application-specific implementations. Quiver partners include Inktomi, NextBrick, and other information technology industry leaders. Quiver is a KMWorld Magazine 'Top 100 Company That Matters In Knowledge Management' for 2002, an EContent Magazine 'Content 100' company for 2001, and a Demo 'Company To Watch' for 2000. For more information, visit www.quiver.com. |
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Reviews.com |
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Bruce Anteleman of Reviews.com on successful launch of Computer Reviews.com, Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. in the press room |
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Computing Reviews Completes Successful Test Launch, Opens To Paid Subscribers New York, NY May 1, 2002 - Today, Computing Reviews, the online resource for reviews of the best in computing literature, announced the completion of its beta testing period and will now begin accepting paid subscriptions. "Granting a period of free access was vital to the development of Computing Reviews," said Bruce Antelman, President of Reviews.com. "We wanted to make sure we were making CR available to as much of the computing community as possible during the developmental phase of the site. Open access enabled us to receive feedback from a larger group of computer science professionals, which we used to perfect the technology and systems that make Computing Reviews possible. The response was extremely positive, and word spread quickly... over the past 15 months readership increased in monumental proportions. There are now more readers every week than previously subscribed annually." "The feedback we've received during the launch period has been invaluable to the development of Computing Reviews as an online publication," said Carol Wierzbicki, Executive Editor of Computing Reviews. "We've used the community's input to help transform Computing Reviews from a static print publication to a dynamic online database. We are very grateful to all the users who helped us test and refine the system." Developed by Reviews.com and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Computing Reviews helps readers manage the large amount of new material published in computer science by pointing them to the best new journal articles and books and giving them a continually updated overview of the field. Readers also benefit from the ability to link to full text, receive customized alerts and read multiple points of view. Reviewers have been carefully screened to ensure that they are qualified to provide expert opinions on the material they review. Computing Reviews is based on ACM's 40-year-old paper journal of the same name. "To thank all of our users who have contributed to the refinement of Computing Reviews, we are offering their institutions a 10 percent discount on a one-year subscription through June 1, 2002," Antelman said. "Existing users requiring an individual subscription will get the first month free if they subscribe before that date." He added: "Computing Reviews is an especially important product to Reviews.com because it is a model for future titles. The technology, editorial process and user base developed for CR provides the blueprint to build Reviews.com into the premier reviewing service for academic and scientific literature." |
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Founded in 1999, Reviews.com develops community based reviewing services for academic and professional disciplines. Reviews.com is affiliated with Information Express, which has been delivering information both in hardcopy and online for 15 years. For information, visit http://www.reviews.com |
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Snapshots International Ltd |
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Snapshots will be updating the market place with the exciting changes that took place at the end of 2001, including the management buy-out and the set-up of the Snapdata Research Department. The Snapshots Series 2002 Version 7 will include the new coverage for Latin America, Canada and the Netherlands, plus improvements on the links and search engine. |
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Launch of the Snapshots Series 2002 Version 7, which includes new regional coverage for Canada, Latin America and The Netherlands. Plus the new online trial via the re-launched website. |
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The 2002 Snapshots Series provides over 1700 market overview reports across 23 countries. The reports include data for market size, segmentation, shares, distribution, socioeconomic and forecasts. Snapshots continue to expand content by both region and industry, with simple searches and tailored delivery options from CDs to global intranets. |
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Snapshots International Limited is a UK independent market research publisher set up in 1997. The "Snapdata Research" department enables the company to constantly develop our product in response to our clients' needs. Snapshots' mission is to provide top-line, reliable market data cost-effectively for time-sensitive situations. For our full company background visit www.snapdata.com. |
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Snapshots launches its internal Research Service: 'Snapdata Research' Snapshots International Ltd is a UK-based, independent market research publisher producing an encyclopaedia of quality top-line data that is simple to access, easy to use and cost-effective. The 2001 Snapshot Series was the first to be produced by the NEW! in-house 'Snapdata Research' department, working in direct response to client feedback over the previous 18 months. First launched at the Online Information exhibition in London in December, the 2001 Snapshots Series is now making its debut in America - at InfoToday 2002 in New York in May, and the SLA Conference in Los Angeles in June. The Snapshot Series 2002 - Version 7 is a toolbox of market research reports covering thousands of industry sectors in 24 countries under the regional banners of UK, North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. From the UK to the Ukraine, each report includes data for market size, segmentation, shares, distribution and five-year forecasts. NEW! features for 2001 included socio-economic data, main player hyper-links and trade association details, which provide useful background information, alongside an additional search option by SIC and NAICS codes. Used as a stand-alone product, or installed on a global intranet system, Snapshots is the perfect research tool for stand-alone usage or Knowledge Management Intranets. With a dedicated sales team and the NEW! 'Snapdata Research' service, Snapshots were able to respond swiftly to customer requests, adding NEW! industry sectors such as IT, Media and Financial Services and NEW! country coverage for Malaysia, Ukraine in 2001. Showcasing these reports at the American exhibitions, Snapshots will also be discussing plans for the 2002 Series which include market reports for Canada and Latin America nations: Mexico and Brazil as well as a NEW! adhoc research service, 'The Snippets'. Debra Curtis, MD of Snapshots International Ltd, says: "Although the 2001 Snapshots Series was our sixth publication, it was the first version we had produced internally. Previously restricted by content suppliers, we set up our own research department to build a product completely tailored to our client's requests. We have a great team on board and have already increased our country and industry coverage, whilst adding new services such as the trade association links and socio-economic data. As an independent publisher, our goal is to provide a toolbox of quality, up-to-date market data, with easy access at a cost-effective price - both to information centres and end-users. We are already working with clients in planning the new product developments for Version 7, and are very keen to hear feedback from prospective users at the American trade shows." For further information on Snapshots and their range of products visit them at InfoToday 2002 or the SLA Conference or visit their website @ www.snapdata.com. |
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Stratify, Inc. |
Booth 106 |
Stock Symbol: N/A |
stratify.com |
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Carolynn Sherby Director, Corporate Communications |
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Phone: 650-934-8536 |
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An end-to-end enterprise software solution, the Stratify Discovery System automates the process of organizing, classifying and presenting the unstructured text-based information in companies. By adding structure to unstructured data, the system allows companies to find and leverage textual information in the same way a relational database allows them to leverage numerical data. |
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Stratify, Inc. is the emerging leader in unstructured data management software. The Stratify Discovery System is a complete enterprise software platform that helps companies harness today's vast corporate information overload by automating the process of organizing, classifying and presenting the business-critical, unstructured information that is usually found in documents, presentations and Web pages. |
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U of Illinois at Chicago |
Thurs 5/16 3:45pm |
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Courtney Greene/ Resident Librarian and Visiting Instructor |
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P.O. Box 8198 (m/c 234), University Library, Reference Department , Chicago, IL 60680-8198 |
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312.413.3045 |
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My Chicago Library customizable Web portal gives patrons the ability to display electronic resources that adhere to their own specialized research interests and simultaneously simplifies the research process by directing users toward high-quality library resources and away from "at-large" Internet sources. In addition, the portal gives patrons a sense of ownership over their page because patrons participate in selecting content. |
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The University of Illinois at Chicago, an ARL Research I library located just south of Chicago's Loop, supports a community of approximately 1700 full-time faculty and over 24,000 full- and part-time students, and is open to the public. Most of these students are from the Chicago area, and a significant number -- approximately one-third -- are non-native English speakers. Undergraduates account for over 70% of the student population. |
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