Meet IIS Breakthrough Keynoter, Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive

Brewster Kahle, founder and leader of the Internet Archive is not shy in his intentions. At the Internet Archive “we want to collect all the books, music and video that have ever been produced by humans,” Mr. Kahle said in a recent NYT Article. And he’s getting there.

Internet Archive, a giant news and artifact aggregator and data digitizer, is already on its way. “As of Tuesday, the archive’s online collection includes every piece of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs devoted to news.”

The best part: like a paper library, It’s free to everyone. And starting today, people will be able to search for any article, video, or music content generated in the past 3 years (or longer).

Learn how Mr. Kahle is leading this effort to free content, how it’s legal, how they’re funding this enormous effort, and Brewster’s vision of the future of content and aggregation, at IIS Breakthrough 2013.

IIS Breakthrough 2013

Featured Digital Content Category: Best Content Aggregation Solution

Today’s featured CODiEs category is Best Content Aggregation Solution which recognizes the best product that gathers or collects information or applications from disparate online sources for reuse, resale, or distribution from, a single platform. Products may be developed for the broader market or customized based on user needs.

Finalists are:

  • Factiva.com (Dow Jones & Company) is a compilation of more than 28,000 leading news and business sources from more than 200 countries and in 23 languages. It provides a complete landscape of the information you need by giving both a global and local perspective.
  • Expert Profiling (Elsevier) provides institutions with an overview of their research experts. Each researcher’s entire research record is available through a Fingerprint profile. The information is updated daily so the institution has complete records.
  • Mobile Library (Infotrieve, Inc.) provides users with secure access to all corporate licensed electronic content and document repositories. Users can also access the world’s largest collection of STM content.
  • InsideView for Sales (SalesView) (InsideView) gives users accurate, up-to-date sales intelligence and content by bringing in information from more than 20,000 sources, including Twitter and Thomas Reuters.
  • Verdict & Settlement Analyzer (LexisNexis Group) is a tool attorneys can use to research and evaluate the level of risk or opportunity associated with a case by aggregating data from previous cases into a consolidated report.
  • All-New Newsdesk 4 (Moreover Technologies) is a Business Intelligence SaaS application for intuitive mining, and finding and sharing real-time relevant information. Information is pulled from daily news, social media and industry publications.

Announcing the digital content CODiE finalists

CODiE Awards finalists have been announced in the categories relating to digital content
aggregation, distribution, management and publishing. The products that qualified will now be reviewed by members of SIIA, who will vote on winners in six categories. The winners will be announced at a special CODiE Awards Dinner on January 25th, which will be held in conjunction with the 2011 Information Industry Summit in New York City.

Twenty‐nine products from 16 companies were selected as finalists from among over 100 nominations submitted by 40 companies. LexisNexis has the most products reaching the final stage, with 6 products across 4 categories. The finalists may now be reviewed on the CODiE Awards Website.

Best Business Information Resource

  • CisionPoint, Cision
  • Dow Jones Supplier & Risk Monitor, Dow Jones & Company
  • InfoDesk Solutions, InfoDesk
  • LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, LexisNexis Group
  • PitchBook, PitchBook Data, Inc. [Read more...]