17 September 2002Stanford University's HighWire Press Licenses Vivisimo Clustering Products
Pittsburgh, PA—
Vivisimo, Inc., a global provider of advanced document clustering (automatic categorization)and content integration software, announced that HighWire Press has licensed Vivisimo's clustering products to enhance access to the medical and scientific journals that are electronically published by HighWire. Vivisimo's products will help HighWire Press organize its content into intelligent and easy-to-navigate clusters for end-users world-wide. HighWire licensed Vivisimo's Clustering Engine and Enterprise Publisher to organize search results and to publish larger document subsets on its master site, and will offer the products to HighWire's own publishing customers for use on their journal websites.
"HighWire Press now has 13 million online articles, so researchers need tools to reduce, refine, and tunnel into search results," said John Sack, director of HighWire. "This fall, Vivisimo will help liberate readers from the need to make overly specific queries. Instead, they can recognize interesting topic clusters and drill down from there, in the 'I know it when I see it' style. After sustained evaluation, we found Vivisimo's clusters to be compact, compelling, and more accurate than other approaches we've experimented with. Also, we expect to deploy clustering in other ways beyond keyword searching."
"HighWire is the outstanding leader in providing knowledge discovery services to the scientific community in biomedical fields and in general science, through its hosting of journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and hundreds of others. Finding content from within this collection of journals can be particularly challenging because of the massive amount of information. We are thrilled that HighWire, after a rigorous evaluation, has selected our products for this critical user-facing role," stated Raul Valdes-Perez, President of Vivisimo. "HighWire's customers will be able to publish their content in novel, value-added ways that should become the norm in a short time."
Stanford University's HighWire Press is the leading online publisher of the world's most influential scientific and medical publications for researchers and institutions. The new HighWire site provides a single, powerful portal to the widest variety of medical and scientific journals available anywhere. For further information, go to http://highwire.stanford.edu.
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