Finding information assets

The key to finding information is to make search easier.

Good description significantly improves visibility and availability of information assets.- AIIM

Taxonomies and metadata are significant enablers for finding information assets.

Essentially it is things like structure, organization, and metadata that help the search engines do their job. The better things are organized and described, the better quality of results.-Connie Crosby

Search science includes techniques such as organizing information using meta-tagging and faceted classification; semantic search tools such as thesauri and ontologies provide the keys to searching large indexed collections.

Building enterprise search tools

a.k.a.® software enables the development of all types of enterprise search tools:- controlled vocabularies, file plans, thesauri, ontologies, folksonomies.