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Records Management: Momentum on Electronic Health Records Sputtters

By Dick Weisinger

Dossia, an employer-driven health-care initiative was announced last year to great fanfare. The Dossia Consortium companies backing the initiative include Wal-Mart, Intel, Pitney Bowes, Applied Materials, British Petroleum, and Cardinal Health. The goal of the Dossia project is to give…

Search: Wales of Wikipedia Battles Google with Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Over this past year’s Christmas and New Year’s celebrations James Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, announced that ‘Search is Broken‘, referring to Internet search options like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. (Wales also says that his own creation Wikipedia has spun out…

Enterprise Search: Powerful and at an Unbeatable Price

By Dick Weisinger

In the race to capture enterprise search users, IBM and Yahoo! have teamed up to offer free software that they’re calling the IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition. The technology is based on the Open Source Lucene search engine with enhancements by…

Open Source: Shared Intelligence Online for Researchers

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been five years since MIT Libraries and HP joined forces to create a non-profit online community and data repository for scholars called DSpace. DSpace was set up to access, manage and preserve scholarly works online. Over the last five…