Smartlogic’s Semantic Classification Adds Meaning to NASA’s Space Flight Programme
Semaphore's open semantic platform delivers advanced semantic search for 50 years of information to do with manned space flight.
Smartlogic, who provide advanced semantic software, has had its semantic software - Semaphore - deployed to thousands of users by NASA in order to automatically classify and drive the user search experience over 50 years’ worth of information relating to their manned space flight programme.
Smartlogic worked in partnership with Google, who supplied their Google Search Appliance to NASA in order to handle the massive volume of information NASA are working with. Smartlogic’s flagship software, Semaphore, works with the Google Search Appliance to provide a high quality, contextual, semantic search experience for NASA’s staff.
Smartlogic’s CEO, Jeremy Bentley, comments, “The amount of information that enterprises have to handle these days is orders of magnitude larger than a few years ago. It’s far more than a search engine alone, with its non-existent grasp of the domain, can handle. Users looking for a particular document, or all the information relating to a specific subject, for example, Saturn, need accurate, precise search results delivered in context to the subject being researched. They don’t have time to sift through thousands of pages of search results - some to do with Saturn rockets, some with the planet Saturn and others to do with the brand of car. The semantic search experience delivered by Semaphore solves this problem of information inaccuracy and overload.”
The Semaphore open semantic platform works with an organisation’s established information classification schemes, automatically tagging new content and enabling a vastly improved user experience when it comes to finding relevant documents. The implementation of Semaphore to deliver advanced information management on NASA’s manned space flight programme has organised half a century’s worth of documentation according to NASA’s corporate classification standards, so users are in control of that information, and can retrieve exactly what they want, first time.
About Smartlogic
Smartlogic are the UK-based creators of Semaphore, a semantic search platform that adds advanced content classification capabilities to information management systems.
Adopting a semantic content classification approach to information management delivers findability, improves the accuracy and efficacy of applying metadata and enables content integration across disparate sources.
- Media companies use Semaphore to improve the quality of their information feeds
- Government authorities use Semaphore to tag information according to their standards
- Investment banks use Semaphore to consolidate their information costs
- Online directories use Semaphore to increase their advertising revenues
- Intranets and websites use Semaphore to boost their use
- Knowledge managers use Semaphore to manage their taxonomies and ontologies
Clients include NASA, The National Health Service, ABN Amro, Bank of America and The Office of Public Sector Information.