AAAS/Science Selects TEMIS for Project with HighWire

[Helen Szigeti <hszigeti@highwire.stanford.edu>]

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AAAS/Science Selects TEMIS for Semantics Content Enrichment 
Project with HighWire
The American Association for the Advancement of Science Enhances 
Search Experience and Linking of Content.

Washington DC, New York, Palo Alto, USA - April 7, 2011 - The 
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 
announced its decision to work with its ePublishing partner, 
HighWire Press, and TEMIS, leading provider of semantic content 
enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, to offer a new, 
integrated, semantically fueled digital publishing program.

A global leader in Scientific, Technical and Medical publishing, 
AAAS is the Washington, DC-based publisher of the renowned 
journal Science, an international publication with an estimated 
total readership of one million. The goal of this strategic 
project is an enhanced online destination incorporating the 
prestigious content of the Science family of Web sites, plus a 
number of other digital assets under the AAAS umbrella.

"We wanted a flexible and portable semantics solution that could 
plug into Science and our other research content on HighWire as 
well as pull in other elements from our organization, such as 
breaking news and information on careers in science," said 
Deborah Rivera-Wienhold, Director of Business Operations, AAAS. 
"TEMIS's impressive suite of tools for analyzing and leveraging 
content seemed ideal for our requirements to better serve our 
community by offering a unified and faceted user experience."

TEMIS provides an enterprise-wide solution in content enrichment 
that can be extended to a variety of digital assets. "By making 
online information products more compelling, Luxid? for Content 
Enrichment Platform helps engage, retain and cross-sell to 
publishers' audiences," said Guillaume Mazieres, TEMIS's 
Executive Vice president for North American Operations. "We're 
thrilled to work with AAAS to make their highly respected content 
even more valuable to their broad community of users. HighWire's 
open and scalable platform is perfectly poised to leverage our 
semantic enrichment on behalf of Science and AAAS."

The AAAS project is part of a larger undertaking touching many 
areas of AAAS' business, including the broad rubric of content 
enrichment. "Our goal is to figure out how to make our content 
more format-agnostic and self-aware," said Stewart Wills, 
Science's Editorial Director for Web and New Media. "We're 
focusing on ways to add value for authors through efficient 
handling of papers and articles, for advertisers through improved 
business intelligence, and ultimately for users through new 
serendipity and discovery tools to help them manage today's 
information glut."

TEMIS's solution for Semantic Content Enrichment, Luxid?, will 
play a pivotal role in AAAS's plans to better align advertising 
and marketing activities with its editorial products, improve 
linkage of a variety of content, enhance search across its daily 
workflow and archives, and ultimately drive membership and 
revenues.

Luxid? automates the semantic enrichment of unstructured content, 
producing metadata that help search engines return more relevant 
results. It creates "facets" which are used to further explore 
the search engine's results. Luxid? also connects content, 
creating a network of semantic ties between documents. This 
enables the suggesting of related and similar documents, 
furthering the process of knowledge recommendation.

HighWire has offered semantically-driven features and services 
for publishers for over 10 years. HighWire facilitates 
discoverability both through their long-standing, custom 
taxonomic and development efforts and through the integration of 
third party solutions, such as TEMIS.

"We are extending the boundaries of HighWire's open platform 
through an integration tool kit, emphasizing connectedness in 
many forms, including semantics," said John Sack, HighWire's 
Director. "We are enthusiastic about helping publishers collect 
and connect content across many different repositories and look 
forward to working with AAAS and TEMIS on this important 
project."

About AAAS/Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is 
the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of 
the journal Science (www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science 
Translational Medicine (www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and 
Science Signaling (www.sciencesignaling.org). AAAS was founded in 
1848 and includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of 
science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest 
paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in 
the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The 
non-profit AAAS
(www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to 
"advance science and serve society" through initiatives in 
science policy; international programs; science education; and 
more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, 
www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service 
of AAAS. See www.aaas.org

About TEMIS
TEMIS is the leading provider of Text Analytics-based content 
enrichment software, turning unstructured data into actionable 
knowledge, enabling advanced content analysis and strategic 
information discovery.  Its Content Enrichment solution Luxid? 
automatically associates value-added metadata to contents. Luxid? 
addresses the needs of publishers as well as Enterprises, 
enabling contents connection and information search optimization.

Founded in 2000, TEMIS operates in the United States, Canada, UK, 
France and Germany, and is represented worldwide through its 
network of certified partners. TEMIS' innovative solutions have 
attracted the business of leading organizations such as AAAS 
(American Association for the Advancement of Science), Agence 
France-Presse, BASF, Bayer Schering Pharma, BNA (Bureau of 
National Affairs), CARMA International, Editions Lefebvre-Sarrut, 
Elsevier, EMC, Europol, French Ministry of Defence, French 
Ministry of Finance, Ingenuity, Merck Serono, Nature Publishing 
Group, Novartis, Philip Morris International, Sanofi-aventis, 
Simon & Schuster, Springer Science+Business Media, The 
McGraw-Hill Companies, and Thomson Reuters.
www.temis.com

About HighWire Press
At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire 
Press provides digital content development and hosting solutions 
to the scholarly publishing community. A division of the Stanford 
University Libraries, HighWire has partnered with influential 
societies, university presses, and other publishers since 1995 to 
produce the definitive online versions of high-impact, 
peer-reviewed journals, books, reference works, and other 
scholarly content. The distinguished HighWire community shares 
ideas and innovations in publishing through regular meetings, an 
active discussion forum, and through the service of its highly 
qualified staff.

The underlying infrastructure of HighWire's electronic publishing 
platform is Web-services-oriented, flexible, and permeable, 
allowing publishers to easily layer new software and services to 
their sites that will meet the ever-changing needs of today's 
online readers.  highwire.stanford.edu