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Entries in Case Studies (52)
Taxonomy – it’s not just for Librarians
On the way to implementing a more effective search portal for my client, a Medical Publisher, I found myself in unfamiliar territory: the region of thesauri and taxonomies. What did these terms have to do with search? I needed to find out.
Larry Cone
in Case Studies, Miscellany
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Request Information to get an Education
The best sources of information with which to clarify the confused vendor landscape are the vendors themselves.
One evening I was sipping a nine-dollar Martini with an old friend at The Wooden Iron, an upscale watering-hole in our little town of Wayne.
Larry Cone
in Best Practices, Case Studies
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Map Product Features to User Profiles
In attempting to make sense of the confusing Search Vendor landscape, I found some analyses that offered a guide to what product feature sets might be important.
In studying the literature, I found some good analysis of Search Usage Patterns – one analyst broke the user spectrum up as follows:
Larry Cone
in Best Practices, Case Studies
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Scanning the Search Vendor Landscape
It is time to go to the marketplace and see what is out there. To survey the marketplace, I used a range of techniques: Google searches for search vendors; Specialist IT websites (including ITToolbox) for articles and whitepapers; Marketplace analyses from firms such as Forrester and Giga; trade periodicals; and tradeshows such as AIIM. What emerged was a confusing picture.
Project Issues – Enterprise Search
We have resumed following my current Enterprise Search Implementation project for a Medical Publisher. I’m going to bring you back up to speed with a review of the project issues and status in Mid March.
Larry Cone
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