Blogs

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  The Top 5 Publishing Trends of 2015

  I think that we are going to see a determined effort to truly implement transformational change within publishing. Projects are going to commence in 2015 that are focused on...

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  Welcome, Willkommen, Bienvenido, Accueil – the Perils of Multilingual Metadata in Alfresco

  Many global organisations want a single content repository, which can mean handling content in multiple languages. This presents many challenges around indexing full text content, which are compounded when...

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  5-star ratings & recommendations with Mahout

  By combining Artificial Intelligence—specifically Machine Learning collaborative filtering techniques - with a data set of user preferences, we can produce personalised content recommendations.

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  Content Encryption with Alfresco and AWS

  Ixxus were commissioned by a client to extend the S3 Connector to support SSE-C and contribute the changes back upstream to Alfresco to complete the encryption options of the...

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  Opening up to Open Access

  Our research – detailed in full in our recent STM publishing whitepaper - found that where open access was once met with resistance, the view taken now is very...

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  Content in Context Conference 2014

  We're delighted to have been invited to speak at CIC 2014, and will be participating in Monday's "Evolving Content and Pedagogy" panel.

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  Video: 3 publishing strategies for innovation, transformation and revenue creation

  We take a look at how publishers such as Pearson, Oxford University Press and Cengage Learning are using technology to reinvent their content.

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  Lies, Damned Lies and Irrelevancies

  An examination of Amazon's sales figures would quickly show that genre fiction sales of self-published works are far greater than publishers believe

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  Back to front: getting the most out of old titles

  Bestsellers are like gadflies; they are born, live for one shimmering moment in the sun, and then all-too-quickly fade away.