Content Curation Tools Buyer's Guide: 21 Criteria To Identify Your Ideal One

From www.masternewmedia.org – January 21, 6:11 PM

Nonetheless we are just at the beginning of a new era, in which content curation will be as important as search, there is already an apparent abundance of content curation tools of all kinds.

Evaluating which content curation tool to use may not be such an easy task. As you probably know there are literally hundreds of content curation tools out there, and many seem to be just clones of each other, leaving the novice curator in doubt as to what are the real differences between each one.

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2014/01/222014/01/22

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source and Ontopia Tool

IO Tools

Open Source and a New Look for Ontopia

If you are thinking about building applications based on topic maps and do not feel like shelling out money for proprietary software, then do not look any further than Ontopia! Ontopia is an open source tools suite with features such as an ontology designer, a full-featured query language; web services points, database storage, and an instance data editor. There are many more powerful tools available with Ontopia outlined here.

Ontopia has been an on-going project in the open source community for over a decade and has an interesting history:

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2014/01/20

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Application Perspectives For 2014

IO Impotency, IO Tools

Search Application Perspectives For 2014

With 2014 well under way, search experts are trying to predict what will happen for enterprise search. Search Appliance World has an article that takes a look on enterprise search in the past and future called, “The New Search Appliance Landscape: Reflections And Predictions With MaxxCAT.” Basic search commands that come in out-of-the-box system are old school and do not provide the robust solution enterprise systems need.

Search appliances became enterprise users’ favorite toys and everyone had to have the Google Mini Search Appliance, but those days are gone. Other search developers, such as MaxxCat, stepped up to the plate.

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2014/01/182014/01/18

Robin Good: Feedshare RMS/OPML Tool

IO Tools

Feedshare is a free web service which allows you to publish and share publicly any RSS feed or OPML file (a collection of RSS feeds) for everyone to check and subscribe to.

You can also discover, search and explore other interesting RSS feeds by keyword, author or tags or by the most popular ones: http://www.feedshare.net/popular/

Free to use.

Try it out now

Search it

Added to Content Discovery Tools directory here

See Also:

Phi Beta Iota IO Tools (List & Links)

2014/01/182014/01/18

Stephen E. Arnold: Visual Mining Tool Redesign

IO Sense-Making, IO Tools

Visual Mining Redesign

We are familiar with Visual Mining and its range of dashboard and data visualization software. Currently, Visual Mining has been working on products that help users better understand and analyze actionable business data. Its enterprise software line NetCharts is compatible across all platforms, including mobile and tablets. The company recently released their Winter 2013 Chartline Newsletter.

Along with the usual end of the year greetings and gratitudes, the first note of business in the newsletter addresses is the Web site’s redesign.

Among the new features are:

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2014/01/172014/01/17

Robin Good: Searchable Databases Tool freeDive plus Google spreadsheets

IO Tools

Curate and Publish Searchable Databases with freeDive

freeDive allows anyone to use Google spreadsheets to build searchable databases that can be personalized, curated and published online.

Key features include:

Results are presented in an interactive, sortable table
Wizard walks you through creating a search widget
Customize the interface with your filters
Embed code to publish anywhere
Open-source

Built by Len De Groot and Scot Hacker

Free to use.

2014/01/15

Nik Peachey: Audio Transcription Tool

IO Tools

Transcribe audio from interviews

This is a great tool if you have a load of research interviews to transcribe. It doesn't do it for you but it can help you to make the process easier.

oTranscribe beta

A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.