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 | | Launch of Leadership Networks | July 4 2007 | |
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| Leadership Networks is an exciting, interactive networking database of "who knows whom" in the leadership of the United States. Powered by BvDEP technology and the Leadership Library® database of accurate and up-to-date professional information, Leadership Networks shows in a visually compelling form the type and strength of key links and connections among leaders in the public and private sectors, including board relationships, education, career history, and family ties. |
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| This new product entirely developed by BvDEP is the state-of-the-art for visual networking applications. |
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| It features a uniquely powerful 360° view of the interrelationships between influential individuals across the public and private sectors, because the Leadership Library® database extends beyond the typical business and finance sectors to include information for individuals in the government, professional associations, and nonprofit sectors. |
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| | EUX.TV goes multilingual with five video channels | June 30 2007 | |
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| EUX.TV, the Europe channel that covers European affairs from a European perspective, today announces the launch of five new channels using YouTube video. |
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| The move is an innovative step forward for EUX.TV and is a first step towards becoming a multilingual platform, adding services in French, Dutch, German and Turkish. |
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| "The language problem is the biggest challenge for all media that target a pan-European audience," said Raymond Frenken, who last year left his previous job as Brussels Bureau Chief for CNBC to start up EUX.TV. |
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| According to the European Commission's Eurobarometer surveys, English is understood by at least one of three Europeans, effectively reaching more than 150 million people. By including French, Dutch and German, EUX.TV can provide native-language programming for more than 230 million people in the EU. |
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| The site now attracts in excess of 100.000 unique visitors per month and draws visitors from across the European Union. EUX.TV will also encourage its viewers to sign up with YouTube so that they can comment and rate the videos. |
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| ABOUT EUX.TV EUX.TV is an independent digital theme channel about European politics. The channel is a service of The European Affairs Channel BV, a private company based in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The company's website is managed under a partnership with Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing |
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| | German Book Association selects BvDEP | February 6 2007 | |
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| Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels (MVB) has chosen BvDEP for the implementation of the new platform including their production system and publisher services. MVB collects bibliographic information for all German books. |
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| | Leadership Alerts launched! | January 31 2007 | |
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| Leadership Alerts allows subscribers to receive notification of changes to information that is important to them in The Leadership Library® on the Internet. |
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| Whenever information or contacts are added, changed, or deleted from a Selection you are tracking, subscribers will be notified by Leadership Alerts. |
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| | Paginas Amarelas N° 1 website 57 weeks in a row! | October 24 2006 | |
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| Thanks to the robust platform and hosting of BvDEP, the Yellow Pages of Portugal (www.pai.pt) are consistently present in the top 10 amongst all sites in Portugal. Paginas Amarelas has a response time of less than 1 second for 57 weeks in a row! |
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| These performances are measured by Keynote systems and published by Marketware. The results of the response time are available at: http://www.marketware.pt/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=165. |
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| The Paginas Amarelas are entirely developed, hosted and maintained by BvDEP. Our architecture and experience has shown that our technology greatly increases the availability and performance of a directory. |
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| The directories we have built for our references easily attain 500+ QPS (queries per second, peak time). Additionally, the technical response time of the search engine is extremely low (<10ms); the reply and display of results occur, on average, well below 1 second. |
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| | Belgian Yellow Pages on DVD | October 10 2006 | |
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| The latest DVD of the Belgian Yellow & White Pages, developed by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing, is released. This new version, needed on a regular base to incorporate address changes, has the most up-to-date contact information on companies and individuals in Belgium. |
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| New features include an improved design that makes it easier for users to search and find information in the database. This includes changes to navigation buttons that enhance the lay out, resulting in an increased readability and a user-friendly interface. |
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| Publishers will now be able to have their advertisements displayed on top of results list. This new feature will boost their online presence and garner additional exposure for these |
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| The road itinerary feature now enables users to calculate the return route. This added component has the benefit that users don't have to re enter navigation data to get back home; a simple click does the trick. |
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| BvDEP has extensive experience of creating directories and complex and busy web sites, with frequent updates of contents and user interface and that contain vast amounts of data. Some of these use highly customized CMS systems, or internal tools for data production. |
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| The experience of BvDEP in electronic directories is based on the Leadership Directories (US), British Telecom (UK) and Yellow & White Pages online or on CD-ROM in other countries. |
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| | BvDEP launches new multi platform dictionary | October 4 2006 | |
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| BvDEP has launched the new version of the Petit Robert 2007. The new version is multiplatform, available on PC, Mac, and Internet. Thanks to BvDEP electronic publishing technology know how, Le Petit Robert can be accessed online, but is also available on CDROM, including an intranet version. |
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| Laurent Catach, Director of Electronic Publications at Dictionnaires le Robert:öBvDEP is the privileged partner for companies or organisations for the development and implementation of databases, of IT development en electronic publishing, like is the case for the catalogue of all on line products and on CD-ROM of Dictionnaires Le Robert since 15 years. It is thanks to the technological support of BvDEP that Le Robert could design and develop ambitious products, recognized for their strong added value and a great ease of use, for consumers, education and companies.ö |
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| This new version contains enhanced but simple to use and efficient researched tools, several articles display possibilities and access to several reference tables. The electronic version of Le Petit Robert is developed with the most up-to-date web technologies, including AJAX and JavaScript. |
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| | Safari Library Launched | September 28 2006 | |
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| Safari Books Online, a joint venture of O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, recently introduced Safari Library (http://my.safaribooksonline.com) an online searchable reference library service that provides unlimited access to over 4,000 IT, programming, graphics and web design books by leading authors. |
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| Safari Library is a subscription-based electronic reference service that provides technical professionals with immediate access to the information they need, when they need it. Whether it's a quick answer to a programming question or an in-depth study of a design issue, the Safari Library rapidly delivers relevant answers through digital books, articles and other published content from the world's leading technical publishers. |
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| BvDEP is a Safari Books Online partner and played a key role in the development and launch of the Safari Library service. |
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| | Launch of EUX.TV | September 13 2006 | |
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| EUX.TV, a service of The European Affairs Channel, is officially launched on Wednesday 13 September. EUX.TV is available at http://eux.tv |
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| EUX.TV is an independent television channel bringing news, interviews and television programs about Europe and the European Union for an international audience, specifically in Europe. |
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| EUX.TV provides daily coverage of the top European news stories in Brussels and European capitals. It operates with a team of experienced international journalists that is headed by Raymond Frenken, former Brussels bureau chief and EU anchor for international broadcaster CNBC. |
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| EUX.TV is breaking new news ground in on line multimedia journalism, combining the speed of on line news-wire reporting with the deeper impact of TV-news to cover EU news from a pan-European perspective, available via the internet. |
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| It's free -of-charge broadband service seeking revenue through advertisements, branded content and sponsorships. |
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| "Thanks to the help and support from BvDEP, EUX.TV manages to turn into reality its vision for an online news site integrated with a video service. Their international experience in building, hosting and maintaining complex solutions is a crucial factor in our success. With its technical know-how, reliability and speed of execution, BvDEP has demonstrated itself as a reliable partner in electronic publishing," says Raymond Frenken, Founder & Chief Editor at EUX.TV. |
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| The EUX.TV website is developed, hosted and maintained by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing. |
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| | BvDEP Creates Congressional Directory Online | August 30 2006 | |
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| This new version of the Leadership Directories Online will enable users worldwide to have a fast and reliable on line access to high-quality contact information for the leaders of major United States government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. |
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| "Working with a truly collaborative technical partner like BvDEP gives us the confidence that we are supplying our customers with the best possible online experience. We love the sophistication and innovation BvDEP brings to our online products," says Sue Healy, VP, Product Marketing, Leadership Directories, Inc. |
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| The Leadership Directories Online is personnel contact database of the institutional leadership of the United States. Integrating the 14 Yellow Book directories, The Leadership Library® enables subscribers to reach 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional and nonprofit organizations. |
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| BvDEP is proud of the ongoing trust that is placed in BvDEP. This long-term relationship is a testimony that BvDEP is a stable and reliable electronic publisher, with up-to-date technology that helps its partners to effectively achieve their business objectives. |
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| The service is available at http://www.leadershipdirectories.com |
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| The directory technology used is based on BvDEP BlitzHit. BlitzHit is a highly effective, scalable, relevant XML search engine. It provides an XML client API and web services with which search partners can integrate BlitzHit, using SOA. |
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| BlitzHit consists of the core search engine and ranking technology for all or YP/WP products. BlitzHit can be used to index local repositories as well as external sources. |
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| | Sony hunts down faults using new BvDEP service | August 1 2006 | |
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| Sony has launched TRACE, developed by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP). TRACE allows fault detection tests for Sony's developed hardware. |
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| This automatic fault detection program will lead to considerable cost reductions in the servicing of their products. |
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| The TRACE web application is being launched worldwide to all service centers. |
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| BvDEP has proven to be a trustworthy partner, their solutions continue to deliver what is promised.ö, said Luc Baert, Senior Manager e-Service Solutions Sony, Service Engineering - CSE Customer Services Europe. |
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| Trace is a recent add-on module to the well-known Assist, Sony's Windows-based Technical Information System for Service. By giving direct access to all I2C-controller circuits in a TV set, Trace provides specific Technical Assistance for Servicing Sony TV's in a quick and easy way. |
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| Trace is both Model- and Chassis- driven and will allow a Service technician to: |
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| - Read Out and restore contents in the TV's NVMs (Non-Volatile Memory) |
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| - Perform automatic adjustments & troubleshooting under PC control |
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| Like is the case for Service Manuals and other technical know-how data in Assist, the adjustment data required by Trace can be kept updated transparently in an unattended process, so that the newest setup data are always available when required. |
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| "Assist" stands for After Sales Service Information SysTem, and is Sony's European Electronic Service Information System for Consumer products. |
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| Assist combines all the Technical Information, which Authorised Service Workshops may need in order to repair Sony products quickly and efficiently, in one easy-to-use, browser-based Electronic Information system that can be updated on a daily basis via the Internet. |
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| For more information on Sony Assist, please go to: http://assist3.crse.com/ |
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| | EUX.TV: European Affairs Channel partners with BvD ... | July 12 2006 | |
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| EUX.TV is breaking new ground in on line multimedia journalism, combining the speed of news-wire reporting with the deeper impact of tv-news to cover EU news from a pan-European perspective. |
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| EUX.TV is an independent television channel bringing news, interviews and television programs about Europe and the European Union for an international audience, specifically in Europe. |
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| EUX.TV provides daily coverage of the top European news stories in Brussels and European capitals. It operates with a team of experienced international journalists that is headed by Raymond Frenken, former Brussels bureau chief and EU anchor for international broadcaster CNBC. |
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| The EUX.TV service will include an independent daily tv news program with the top headlines, news reports and interviews about Europe and the European Union. And an innovative website that reports European news stories throughout the day, powered by a team of experienced international journalists. |
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| For viewers throughout Europe and the rest of the world, the service will be free of charge. They only need a connection to the internet. For its income, the channel relies on advertising and branded content. |
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| It's free -of-charge broadband service seeking revenue through advertisements, branded content and sponsorships. |
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| The EUX.TV website has been built by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing. EUX.TV, a service of The European Affairs Channel BV, based in Maastricht, the Netherlands. |
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| EUX.TV is available at http://eux.tv |
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| | Intelliga selects BvDEP | June 29 2006 | |
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| Intelliga, a publisher specialized in the field of top-end web design, on-line databases and interactive multimedia, has decided to partner with BvDEP in order to build the next generation of its online K-12 education products in Europe and worldwide. |
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| | O'Reilly Media appreciates BvDEP's platform | June 22 2006 | |
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| Safari Books Online version 5.0 went live last week. Learn about the new features from Tim O'Reilly, the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. His appreciation of the dedicated work of Bureau van Dijk and his enthousiasm for the new features and the benefits for the users can be read at http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/new_version_of_safari_books_on.html |
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| Safari 5.0 has implemented the AJAX version of Books On Web (BOW), now also supporting PDF books for viewing & search (on top of XML books). |
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| Safari has added more content through "Graphically Rich Books". Searching the book content works the same way as with existing books. These books are presented with the same page layout found in the printed book. Graphically Rich Books are being added in several different categories to the Safari Library. |
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| | Books on Web in Brazil | May 12 2006 | |
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| BOW has been chosen as the Brazilian platform by CBL (the Brazilian Book Chamber). |
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| The Brazilian Book Chamber, and the Brazilian National Library Association has decided to launch 18 Minutosö, a new electronic platform to facilitate the flow and trade of books. |
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| 18 minutosö is based on the BOW-platform, developed by BvDEP. 18 minutosö was conceived to consolidate the physical and virtual world of publishers and bookshops, increasing the number of titles available for purchase. |
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| The new platform 18 minutosö allows consumers to have online access to a complete catalog of the participating publishers, where you can search and read books in full text during 18 minutes. It is a preview that could stimulate the purchase of a book. |
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| More information on 18 minutosö can be obtained via the website of the Câmara Brasileira do Livro e a Associação Nacional de Livrarias at: http://www.cbl.org.br/news.php?recid=3771 |
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| Books On Web (BOW) has been developed on the basis of our technological partnership with Safari, O'Reilly Media (http://safari.oreilly.com) and Pearson. Safari counts more than 45 US publishers, several thousands of books and more than 500.000 paying users. Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing developed a platform for searching, browsing and reading books electronically, called BOW (Books On Web). |
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| BOW respects the interests of the various contributors (publishers, diffusers, users) regrouped by a central provider of bibliographic information, by centering the technology on the following poles: |
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| Active and passive protection of data, and management of digital rights (by certification and complete security). |
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| The integration of multiple models of businesses, from print book ordering to online subscriptions (for the companies, education, integrators or B2B/B2C subscribers); |
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| Unequalled performances and facility of use of the book search and rendering systems; |
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| The simplicity of implementation, for data upload (PDF, with XML in option), the digital rights and the portal creation |
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| BvDEP also provides an independent and centralized service of management of rights (Central DRMö) which makes it possible to manage and to certify both publishers and search engines (incl. BOW). |
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| BOW can easily contain 100.000 books in full text, on a system which offers response times under the threshold of the second and the availability ratios close to 100%. |
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| | Safari Implements AJAX version of BOW | May 3 2006 | |
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| BvDEP announces that Safari 5.0 has implemented the AJAX version of Books On Web (BOW), now also supporting PDF books for viewing & search (on top of XML books). |
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| Safari has added more content through "Graphically Rich Books". Searching the book content works the same way as with existing books. These books are presented with the same page layout found in the printed book. Graphically Rich Books are being added in several different categories to the Safari Library. |
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| | Electre chooses BvDEP | March 23 2006 | |
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| BvDEP is designing and developing a bibliographic production system for Electre (Paris). This system will collect, submit, normalize and track in excess of 50.000 yearly metadata submissions in print or various electronic forms from hundreds of publishers. This includes scanning devices, optical readers and 3rd party offshore data encoding, all workflows being managed by the system. The full repository contains over 1.000.000 documents. |
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| | New partnership with Mark Logic | March 14 2006 | |
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| In order to meet the continuous expansion of its XML-based activities, BvDEP announces a partnership with Mark Logic Corporation, the provider of the industry's leading XML content server. |
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| Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content to find previously undiscovered information. |
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| MarkLogic Server does this by enabling companies to query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers. |
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| | Self-Organizing Maps launched on Safari 4.12 | December 19 2005 | |
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| This feature is based on an artificial intelligence neural network algorithm known as a self-organizing maps (SOM). |
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| All book contents is being scanned, in order to extract the concepts exposed in the text and calculate "fingerprints" for each section, which are then stored in a SOM. The SOM automatically clusters together sections that share similar fingerprints across the complete repository. |
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| This amazing feature enables to continuously create relationships between similar sections, which would otherwise be an editorially impossible task. |
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| | Launch of Leadership Profiles on Demand | December 12 2005 | |
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| You can now purchase individual profiles of any person or organization from the Leadership Directories database. |
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| Leadership Directories, Inc. provides high-quality contact information for the leaders of major United States government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. |
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| Profiles are taken from the 14 yellow books published by Leadership Directories, Inc: Congressional, Federal, State, Municipal, Federal Regional, Judicial, Corporate, Financial, News Media, Associations, Law Firms, Government Affairs, Foreign Representatives, Non profit Sector. |
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| Profiles can be purchased online and on demand with the latest information available. The profiles are generated just after the order and delivered to the customers in a PDF file. |
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| | Safari: Going to the next generation with BlitzHit | May 31 2005 | |
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| The Concept? Using the Web to provide a virtual library of technical books. |
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| The reality? The highly successful Safari Books Online, LLC, a joint venture of O'Reilly & Associates and Pearson Technology Group, has become the premier electronic reference library for programmers and Information Technology (IT) professionals. |
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| Blitzhit indexing and ranking agents use a large set of methods to mark relevancy for every word in every context, using word frequency, word location, and contextual data derived from the XML tagging. The indexing process uses complex ternary trees enabling incredibly fast index building handling millions of words in just minutes. The relevancy determination algorithms use intelligent lexical analysis methods and fast set intersection and union algorithms as well as various statistical methods, which calculate and utilize important factors such as word proximity, word frequency, relative rank valuation, per-document word frequency and weight. |
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| BvDEP has developed BlitzHit, consisting of the core search engine and ranking technology for books and journals. BlitzHit can be used to index local repositories as well as external sources. |
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| BlitzHit is a highly effective, scalable, relevant XML search engine. It provides an XML client API and web services with which search partners can integrate BlitzHit, using SOA. |
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| BlitzHit indexing and ranking agents use a large set of methods to mark relevancy for every word in every context, using word frequency, word location, contextual data derived from the XML tagging or web spidering, and a set of other variables that have been determined through fine tuning to contribute to overall relevancy. |
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| BlitzHit features customised contextual searches, such as name search, location search, keyword search or web search through sophisticated search syntax with Boolean, context and proximity operators. |
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| BlitzHit dynamically builds structured views (dynamic views, also called navigatorsö) on the result set, based on predefined categorisation of the entries. This concept allows interactive drilling down into any data set without preliminary knowledge of the data structure. |
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| BlitzHit also features a spell checker and the ability to integrate a thesaurus for synonym search or inflected forms. |
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| In addition to creating and hosting the database, BvDEP also provides full back-end and administrative support. A usage "statistics dashboard" gives live data on the latest searches, numbers of hits plus more detailed statistics such as the most commonly used search criteria and comparisons between specific dates. |
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| | BlitzHit Integrated in all World Directories Yello ... | May 3 2005 | |
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| In May 2004, Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing delivered a new contextual search engine for XML databases. BlitzHit is a result of months of research and also BvDEP's deep roots in electronic publishing. |
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| BlitzHit indexing and ranking agents use a large set of methods to mark relevancy for every word in every context, using word frequency, word location, contextual data derived from the XML tagging or web spidering, and a set of other variables that have been determined through finetuning to contribute to overall relevancy. It can be used to index local repositories as well as external sources. |
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| The indexing process uses complex ternary trees enabling incredibly fast index building, well above typical incremental operations of commercial search engines. It handles millions of entries in just minutes. |
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| The relevancy determination algorithms use intelligent lexical analysis methods and fast set intersection and union algorithms as well as various statistical methods, which calculate and utilize such important factors as word proximity, word frequency, relative rank valuation, per-document word frequency and weight, and database dictionaries. Backend tools allow to dynamically modify the ranking parameters. |
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| BlitzHit can instantly aggregate per-section results to documents. It also features customized contextual searches, such as name search, location search, keyword search or web search through sophisticated search syntax with boolean, context and proximity operators. |
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| BlitzHit dynamically builds structured views on the result set, based on predefined categorization of the entries. This concept allows to interactively drill down in any data set without preliminary knowledge of the data structure. |
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| It also features a spell checker and the ability to integrate a thesaurus for synonym search or inflected forms. |
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| BvDEP's new search engine is a highly effective, scalable, relevant platform for indexing and retrieval. |
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| BlitzHit has been integrated in Promedia's online Yellow Pages site, resulting in better search performances and user experience. It also provides an XML client API with which search partners can integrate. |
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| | BvDEP Creates Online College Books Platform | May 27 2004 | |
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| SafariX(R) Textbooks Online, to be launched by Pearson Education and Safari(R) |
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| Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP), a leading technology solutions provider, has extended its relationships with Pearson Education, the world's leading education company, and Safari(R) Books Online, the premier electronic reference library, with the creation of SafariX(R) Textbooks Online, a new technical platform to service the college textbook market that will go live this Fall. |
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| This new digital textbook program will offer WebBooks as an additional option to the print textbook platform and various functionality such as the ability to browse the electronic book catalog, search the entire text for key concepts and tools such as book marking, note-taking and page printing. In addition, BvDEP will provide the online hosting, e-commerce functionality, back office reporting for usage and performance statistics and security to ensure only authorized access. |
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| SafariX Textbooks Online utilizes BlitzHit, BvDEP's new contextual search engine for XML databases. This state of the art application is an effective and scalable platform for document indexing and retrieval. BlitzHit can instantly aggregate per-document results to book results. It also features customized contextual searches, such as title search, keyword search and code search with Boolean, context and proximity operators. |
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| This new digital textbook program will offer WebBooks as an additional option to the print textbook platform and various functionality such as the ability to browse the electronic book catalog, search the entire text for key concepts and tools such as book marking, note-taking and page printing. In addition, BvDEP will provide the online hosting, e-commerce functionality, back office reporting for usage and performance statistics and security to ensure only authorized access. |
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| SafariX Textbooks Online utilizes BlitzHit, BvDEP's new contextual search engine for XML databases. This state of the art application is an effective and scalable platform for document indexing and retrieval. BlitzHit can instantly aggregate per-document results to book results. It also features customized contextual searches, such as title search, keyword search and code search with Boolean, context and proximity operators. |
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| "BlitzHit has taken a long time to develop to this level and it's a fundamental part of this project's success," said Bernard Struyf, director at BvDEP, "It utilizes sophisticated methodology to assess relevancy for words in every context and it contributes significantly to the accuracy of the searches. We're sure that colleges will find it an efficient and progressive service." |
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| Gary June, chief marketing officer of Pearson Higher Education said, "We've been delighted to work with BvDEP on Safari. This new venture offers students more choice, value, and thanks to BvDEP, innovation." |
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| More information about SafariX Textbooks Online can be found on www.safarix.com. More information about BvDEP's electronic publishing services can be found on http://www.bvdep.com/en/electronicPublishingServices.html |
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| About Blitzhit |
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| Blitzhit indexing and ranking agents use a large set of methods to mark relevancy for every word in every context, using word frequency, word location, and contextual data derived from the XML tagging. The indexing process uses complex ternary trees enabling incredibly fast index building handling millions of words in just minutes. The relevancy determination algorithms use intelligent lexical analysis methods and fast set intersection and union algorithms as well as various statistical methods, which calculate and utilize important factors such as word proximity, word frequency, relative rank valuation, per-document word frequency and weight. |
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| About Pearson Education |
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| Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education is the global leader in educational publishing. With brands such as Pearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Longman, Pearson Addison-Wesley, Pearson Allyn & Bacon, Pearson Benjamin Cummings and others, Pearson Education provides quality content, assessment tools and educational services in all available media, spanning the learning curve from birth through college and beyond. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO; FTSE:PSON), the international media company. To view the electronic press kit visit http://www.safarix.com |
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| About Safari(R) Books Online |
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| Safari(R) Books Online is a joint venture between the industry's leading technical publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc., and the Pearson Technology Group. Safari's flagship service, Safari(R) Tech Books Online, is the premier electronic reference library for programming and IT developments. Visit http://www.safaribooksonline.com |
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