Web Search--Northern Light Northern Light Acquired By divine
News Release Highlights--"CHICAGO/CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Jan. 22, 2002 - divine, inc., (Nasdaq: DVIN), a premier integrated solution provider focused on the extended enterprise, today announced that it has acquired certain assets of privately held Northern Light� Technology LLC, a leading provider of search and content integration solutions for enterprises, in an all-stock transaction. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."... "Merging content with the technologies that find and manage it is a logical next step in the development of content-related applications," said Susan Feldman, director of content and retrieval software research at IDC. "In the past year, divine has acquired content management vendors such as Eprise and Open Market, and information aggregators such as RoweCom and Sagemaker. Search was the missing piece. By closely integrating search and content management with a collection of high-quality information sources, divine offers enterprises a single point of entry into both their internal information sources and the external ones that are strategically necessary to their survival. Integrated solutions enable an enterprise to develop an integrated information strategy based on the particular needs and processes of their organization. Workflow, categorization, tagging, publishing, search, and information analysis can now become one seamless process that builds a strong foundation for knowledge work. divine now has a strong offering that will make other content-related software vendors and content aggregators sit up and take notice." See Also: "divine Buys Northern Light" (via Internet.Com) See Also: Direct to divine Home Page
See Also: Direct to Northern Light Home Page
Academic Libraries
Source: Christian Science Monitor "Food for Thought"
From the article, "Campus libraries add cafes and meeting spaces to lure students away from their computer screens."..."It's one of many responses to competition from the Internet and electronic databases, which have thrown the quiet world of the college library into a state of flux. Legislators and even college administrators are looking for proof that libraries still matter to students, who would rather use a search engine than hike to the library for a book." Comment: Once again confusion between "search engines" (Google, AltaVista, AlltheWeb) and proprietary search tools that many academic libraries offer via remote access.
Resources, Tools and Documents (5 Items)
- Human Rights Full-Text: Human Rights Watch Annual Report 2002
Released 1/16/02.
- United States Capitol
Source: Government Printing Office Full-Text: History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics
Available as a .pdf file. Written by William C. Allen, architectural historian in the office of the Architect of the Capitol since 1982.
- Internet Resources--Webliography
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology Full-Text: Web Links 2001/2002: Internet Resources for Children
From the site, "Web Links is a new annual publication from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology that provides links to some of the best educational resources available online. Web Links 2001/2002: Internet Resources for Children describes over 50 high quality internet resources for children in grades K-8. Also available as a .pdf file.
- Literacy--United States--Databases America's Literacy Directory
Searchable database from the National Institute for Literacy.
- Aviation Safety
Source: General Accounting Office Full-Text: FAA and DOD Response to Similar Safety Concerns
74 pages .pdf
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