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State of
Arizona Selects HiSoftware’s TagGen to Boost
Effectiveness of Pilot Arizona GILS Web Site
- Metadata Tagging Solution Improves Quality
and Quantity of GILS Search Engine Results
CONCORD, NH – March 26,
2001 -- Hiawatha Island Software Company,
Inc. (“HiSoftware”), a leader in search and
discovery solutions, today announced that
the State of Arizona is using its TagGen®
metadata tagging software to enhance the
quality and quantity of search results for
the pilot Government Information Locator
Service (GILS) web site, Find-It! Arizona.
The Arizona GILS project is a partnership of
state agencies, the Arizona State Library,
Archives and Public Records, and public and
university libraries across Arizona.
Already established in
over 20 states, GILS gathers information
across government web sites, allowing
citizens and state agencies to search for
information without needing to know which
agency provides the information or service.
A GILS-specialized search engine provide
more relevant search results than full text
search engines because it looks for
metatags, which index the content of a web
page, and displays metatagged documents near
the top of the search results. GILS also
provides subject categories as an
alternative search method for users who
prefer to browse for information.
“TagGen helped us
jumpstart the Find-It! Arizona project by
proving a simple, very effective method to
index library and state agency content with
rich GILS metadata. Tested in the summer
and brought up in Fall 2000, it was the only
solution we found that supported the GILS
metadata schema without requiring extensive
customization. We can automatically apply
metatags across multiple files and
directories. As a result, we have
dramatically increased both the content and
relevancy of information being accessed
through Find-It! Arizona,” said Susan Alden,
Library Consultant at the Arizona State
Library and Project Manager for the Arizona
GILS project.
Once the pilot project
is complete in June 2001, it will be
considered as a link from the State of
Arizona Web Portal, currently under
development.
About TagGen Office
Solutions
TagGen® Office is a complete software
solution for developing and maintaining
metadata schemas, creating metatags,
verifying compliance and creating a metadata
index for the Enterprise. TagGen is
available stand-alone and as an add-on for
Microsoft Front Page and Allaire Web Editors
TagGen provides support for customized
metadata schemas and ships with support for
true Dublin Core, GILS and WA-GILS, and
provides interoperability through tokens “Z”
technology.
ABOUT HISOFTWARE
HiSoftware Company, the leader in enterprise
content quality management solutions,
provides innovative products that empower
quality assurance teams, content developers,
Web site architects, and company executives
to work collaboratively on their efforts to
create and manage corporate Web standards
for Accessibility, Privacy, Searchability,
Usability and custom guidelines and
policies. HiSoftware’s integrated, full
lifecycle solutions dramatically reduce the
time required to test, manage and deploy
e-business Web sites.
HiSoftware works closely with industry
leaders and visionaries to provide solutions
for today's information accessibility,
content quality, search and retrieval needs.
HiSoftware’s customers represent Fortune 500
companies, and many of the largest
e-commerce, government, and educational
sites in North America and around the world
and include ChevronTexaco, Commerce One,
Mercury Interactive, and Microsoft
Government.
Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Company
maintains North American corporate
headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire.
Further information about HiSoftware can be
found online at
www.hisoftware.com |
