by Martin White | May 11, 2022 | AI Governance, Digital workplace, Information Management, Research, Search
In order to be awarded my chemistry degree in 1970 I had to pass a reading comprehension examination in German. This was because at that time the Beilstein and Gmelin handbooks on organic and inorganic chemistry were primarily published in German, as was Angewandte...
by Martin White | May 9, 2022 | Conferences, Intranets, Search
I continue to be both surprised and concerned by the lack of conferences at which good practice in search and findability can be shared. This seems to be primarily because of a reluctance by enterprise search vendors to support conference and events with financial...
by Martin White | May 5, 2022 | AI Governance, Information Management, Research, Search
The message coming from the enterprise search vendors at present is that AI (usually vaguely defined) can solve all search problems and present a very high percentage of relevant items on the first page of results. This ‘machine’ ranking of relevance is determined by...
by Martin White | May 4, 2022 | Information Management, Reviews, Search
How do you review a book that runs to almost 900 pages? Answers on a pack of postcards please! Two books sparked my interest in the history of information. The first was A History of Online Information Services 1963-1976 by Bourne and Hahn which provides a vast amount...
by Martin White | Apr 27, 2022 | AI Governance, Information Management, Search
In any organisation there are multiple invisible silos. These silos are based on access permissions and the reason they are invisible is because the user has no means of knowing that they are not seeing the entire enterprise-wide corpus of information. A feature of...
by Martin White | Mar 31, 2022 | Digital workplace, Intranets, Research, Search
I continue to be concerned by the lack of understanding by digital workplace vendors, including enterprise and intranet search vendors, of the challenges that employees with dyslexia face using their applications. Although there is now a wide acceptance of WCAG these...
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