by Martin White | Apr 28, 2023 | Reviews, Search
It is remarkable that this book is unique in its coverage of the development of the technology, business and impact of web search. The web search engines play such an important role in our lives and our business activities that we take them for granted. It’s not just...
by Martin White | Jul 5, 2022 | Information management, Reviews
There is probably no more difficult task in information management in being the Editor of a multi-author on any topic, and the level of difficulty goes up by an order of magnitude when the topic is taxonomy management. Taxonomies (and the strap line ‘Practical...
by Martin White | Jun 30, 2022 | Digital workplace, Information management, Knowledge management, Reviews, Search
There are many books about knowledge management but very few about what I might refer to as IKM (Information and Knowledge Management) technologies. What is distinctive about this book is that it spans the crevasse between KM and IT and does so with considerable...
by Martin White | Jun 29, 2022 | Digital workplace, Information management, Intranets, Reviews
Attending the Intranet Italia Day in Milan last month I spotted a very unusual book on one of the exhibitions stands. In the business of intranet and digital workplace development we are constantly trying to develop interactive applications that deliver an intuitive...
by Martin White | May 24, 2022 | Reviews, Search
I expect that few readers of this blog will have read the 2011 edition of Modern Information Retrieval edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Riberio-Neto. It runs to almost 900 pages. Chapter 15 is a brilliant essay by David Hawking which sums up everything you...
by Martin White | May 23, 2022 | Conferences, Digital workplace, Intranets, Reviews, Search
The European intranet community is indebted to a small group of entrepreneurs for staging conferences and workshops of the highest quality. I’m referring of course to Wedge Black (Intranet Now, London), Kurt Kragh Sorensen (IntraTeam, Copenhagen and Stockholm), Guy...