Having spent some time recently as part of a team deriving a DTD for clinical guidelines and then using it on a number of existing guidelines (results so far in http://195.152.56.15/guidelines/mainframe.jsp ), I can't help wondering about the new Autonomy module that claims:
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Using Autonomy's unique pattern-matching technology, the XML tagging function of the Autonomy Categorizer(tm) automatically marks data with an XML tag, based on its category which is inferred from the content of the document. These tags let information be reused and maintained, enabling the system to automatically categorize or deliver this information to the right people. Employees or administrators no longer need to waste time manually inserting XML tags, Autonomy does it automatically.
All that is required is to identify examples of documents within specified categories. The XML tagging module will automatically determine which categories new documents will best fit into, categorize them accordingly and add the requisite XML tags. All of this is done automatically and in real time.
http://www.autonomy.com/autonomy/dynamic/autopage466.shtml
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It would be interesting to test these claims in some way, but I haven't managed to persuade Autonomy so far to test any information from the NeLH (they offered to test some of our information, but for a large fee)
Does anyone have experience of using Autonomy in a library or electronic library setting? I've used Kenjin, which proved to be less than useful. I am hoping to visit a site soon which uses Autonomy, and would welcome views and experience of Autonomy from the list.
To take an example, would it be possible to use Autonomy to convert a full text database into XML? It might be worth considering this approach if the software got the conversion 80% right. Conversely, if the software got it 30% right I don't see the benefit. It might even be counterproductive to the implementation of XML if people generate poor quality XML through an automated process.
--Ben Toth
National electronic Library for Health
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk
Ben Toth
Information and Knowledge Specialist
NHS Information Authority
Birmingham
http://www.nhs.uk/nelh/
tel 07775 993168
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