AACR Selects Access Innovations for Indexing on HighWire

[Bonnie Zavon <bzavon@stanford.edu>]

(see: http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/AACR_AccessInnov.pdf - for 
full version)

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected 
Access Innovations as its semantics partner to enhance the 
discoverability of journal content on the HighWire platform as 
well as across the AACR organization.  Leveraging Access 
Innovations' proven experience and their highly effective 
semantic tagging and indexing tools, the AACR will enable their 
readers and members to make connections between and among related 
information currently residing in disparate websites.

HighWire has actively supported semantic tagging for years using 
a HighWire-developed taxonomy* and selected classification tools, 
both within the HighWire Portal and on individual publication 
sites.  "As part of our mission to work collaboratively with our 
publishing partners, we have organized a Semantic Enrichment 
Working Group," noted Kristen Fisher Ratan, Associate Director 
for Strategic Development at HighWire. "Comprised of 
HighWire-affiliated publishers, including the AACR, this group 
gives them a unique opportunity to discuss possible use cases for 
semantic enrichment and to make independent, informed decisions 
about the semantic vendor they wish to engage. HighWire will be 
proactively assisting publishers in implementing their semantics 
solution of choice on their HighWire sites."

"We are thrilled to be working with Access Innovations to develop 
an AACR taxonomy that can be applied to our content, and with 
HighWire Press to allow us to present related articles across our 
journals," said Diane Scott-Lichter, Publisher of the AACR suite 
of journals.  "We expect to expand these efforts to include 
semantic tagging of other AACR information such as meetings, 
workshops, conferences, grants, job postings, podcasts, and 
working groups as a second phase to this project. Making links 
between related items will drive increased targeted serendipity, 
providing improved access to the critical information users 
need."

"Access Innovations has been growing and fine-tuning its Data 
Harmony software line since 1997," noted Marjorie Hlava, 
President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. "We 
are proud to be working with the AACR and its publications and 
with HighWire's world class platform." The Access Innovations 
suite of software products is composed of several modules, 
designed to simplify the management of databases or text 
collections, with support for editorial processes and to provide 
significant semantic enrichment. Access Innovations' products 
adhere to all NISO, ISO and W3C standards, including XML, and are 
written in Java, providing platform independence for all users.

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*The HighWire taxonomy was developed by subject matter experts 
over many years. It contains over 50,000 nodes and is 
particularly well-developed in the medical and life sciences 
areas. The indexing rules dictate exactly how terms are assigned 
to content. These rules represent significant intellectual 
property for HighWire and could be utilized with other 
classification tools. The semantic enrichment is stored by 
HighWire and is available for publishers to experiment with or 
use in whatever way is desired.



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Contact:
Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
HighWire | Stanford University
1454 Page Mill Rd. | Palo Alto CA 94304