*Apologies for cross-posting*
On behalf of Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), I'm pleased to
announce that we have just licensed the award-winning Vivisimo Clustering
Engine for use in our Electronic Journals service.
Search results clustering, we believe, is the way of the future for
information retrieval and Vivisimo is a huge leap forward in that
direction. By experimenting with Vivisimo’s approach, we aim to demonstrate
how clustering can add tremendous value for the tens of thousands of
physicists who use our online journals.
Both subscribers and non-subscribers of our Electronic Journals will be
able to search our content at http://www.iop.org/EJ and receive organized
search results, rather than long, unwieldy lists, which are the norm in
electronic publishing. As Dr. Raul Valdes-Perez, President and co-founder
of Vivisimo, puts it: ‘Users who search for scientific information ignore
most of what they find because of the sheer tedium of plodding through
search results that are displayed one-dimensionally. The Vivisimo
Clustering Engine will allow physicists to see much further into the
physics literature, just as telescopes allowed astronomers to see farther
in the heavens. I predict that, just as with the invention of telescopes,
users will more easily discover knowledge they didn’t even know existed.’
As a preview of things to come, we have clustered a year’s worth of
articles from the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter at
http://vivisimo.com/docs/jpcm.html. We plan to implement Vivisimo into our
Electronic Journals service in April (I will mail the list again when the
system is up and running).
The Vivisimo Web site at http://vivisimo.com has won two awards from Search
Engine Watch for the meta-search and document clustering technologies
showcased there. The Pittsburgh-based company was founded in June 2000 by
research computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and has been
funded by the National Science Foundation, private investors, and
Innovation Works, a publicly funded venture capital organization.
For more information, please contact:
Dennis Brestensky at [log in to unmask] or Lucy Pearce at
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Regards,
Lucy Pearce
Senior Product Manager
Institute of Physics Publishing
http://www.iop.org
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