Market landscape - web scraping
Wednesday, 25th September 2019

Web scraping service providers extract data from websites either through the web or using Hypertext Transfer Protocol or via a web browser. Whilst web scraping can be done manually, it usually involves automated processes carried out using a bot or web crawler. The copied data is usually added to...

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Market landscape - auto-summarisation
Wednesday, 25th September 2019

Auto-summarisation service providers are often either start-ups or tech community, nonprofit websites. Their websites are typically free to use for those wanting to summarise an individual document, but also offer developer tools for API access that allows the summarisation tool to be embedded in...

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Technology update - auto-summarisation and web scraping
Tuesday, 24th September 2019

This article looks at auto-summarisation and web scraping technologies, explaining what they are and how they came about, and highlights specific use-cases. We also look at some of the key players in this area, including Moreover, which forms the basis of the LexisNexis news monitoring product, Newsdesk, Ozmosys, M-Brain's Opoint, Wide Narrow, and InfoNgen, as well as a number of free tools that can be used for these tasks.

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The ins and outs of intelligence system APIs
Thursday, 12th September 2019

Interest in the adoption of intelligence platforms is growing, with organisations using them to manage multiple content streams and to enable workflow collaboration around the discovery and insights generated from the analysis of the combined datasets. Jinfo takes a look at the use of APIs within intelligent systems and at some of the vendors in this area, along with their offerings.

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Shedding light on emerging technologies
Thursday, 12th September 2019

Emerging technologies such as AI, text mining and machine learning are increasingly affecting the information environment and have a huge range of potential uses, particularly for current awareness. However, definitions of these technologies aren't always clear and in this article we attempt to explain them and how they can be used to improve processes.

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Q&A with Tim Aitken - Creating analytical tools from a discovery database
Tuesday, 3rd September 2019

Inspec Analytics is the authoritative resource for accessing scientific literature across engineering, physics and computer science, serving numerous prestigious institutions and tens of thousands of users around the world. Jinfo recently spoke to Tim Aitken, senior product manager at Inspec, about Inspec Analytics, the analytics tool that the company built on top of their renowned abstract and indexing database. 

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APIs - what are they and what do they do?
Friday, 30th August 2019

If you're an information manager working with content, you'll need to know about APIs. This article looks at what APIs are, how they can be used, what propelled their growth, and the benefits of using APIs from an information manager's perspective. Plus, we examine what to look out for when considering their use within the organisation, along with some useful resources to learn more about them.

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Adopting technology for discovery 2019 (Fresh insights through smart technology)
Wednesday, 21st August 2019

In the final part of our report on Jinfo's research on discovery tools and priorities and the adoption of technology for finding content, we focus more specifically on the application of smart technologies to surface insights. We highlight some of the more popular databases used by respondents and how well they meet their needs.

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Market landscape - semantic intelligence and semantic search
Thursday, 25th July 2019

Semantic intelligence and semantic search is a complex space, and our list is not intended to be comprehensive but instead provides a comparison of some of the key services in this environment. In this market landscape we look at six products in the semantic intelligence space: Cogito...

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Service complexity in the pharmaceutical industry
Friday, 28th June 2019

We find out more about the Scientific Intelligence (SciIntel) group at Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, the global French pharmaceutical company and whether technology innovations such as text mining and options for full text search are enabling them to handle complex queries more efficiently.

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