extensible business reporting language (xbrl) is an xml-based open standard, developed specifically for financial reporting. in wider terms, xbrl is a technology by which directed searches and simultaneous presentation of related financial statement facilitate, and also footnote information could potentially help financial statements’ users. the use of search-facilitating technology depletes di...

The Plant Genome DataBase Japan (PGDBj, http://pgdbj.jp/?ln=en) is a portal website that aims to integrate plant genome-related information from databases (DBs) and the literature. The PGDBj is comprised of three component DBs and a cross-search engine, which provides a seamless search over the contents of the DBs. The three DBs are as follows. (i) The Ortholog DB, providing gene cluster inform...

Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal properties of these problems share similar structures and, often, similar solutions. Moreover, internal search (e.g., memory search) shows similar characteristics to external search (e.g., spatial foraging), including sh...

Semantic search is gradually establishing itself as the next generation search paradigm, which meets better a wider range of information needs, as compared to traditional full-text search. At the same time, however, expanding search towards document structure and external, formal knowledge sources (e.g. LOD resources) remains challenging, especially with respect to efficiency, usability, and sc...

The paper investigates the theme known as “Knowledge Management” (KM) in three large Brazilian organisations trying to discuss its concepts, constituent elements, managerial approaches and tools, while aiming at leaving behind the purely terminological discussion, which is innocuous and naive. The basic presuppositions were two: (i) most of what is referred to or named KM is actually “Informati...

The 2007 document search task is akin to a topic distillation task, where the search system should identify resource pages that provide links to informational pages that are relevant to a broad topic, aiming to provide a rich information space and comprehensive picture between found documents and the topic. Such a page may or may not exist in the website: if it exists, it would be ideal for a s...

Prior research highlights the vital role of information technology (IT) for innovation in firms. In this paper, we draw on the knowledge-based view of the firm to investigate how search in external knowledge sources and information technology for knowledge absorption jointly influence process innovation performance. Our model is tested on a nineyear panel (2003–2011) of Swiss firms from a wide ...

This paper reports the results of an extensive user study that examined information seekers’ use of their memory and externally recorded search histories in searching for and using information in the legal domain. The ultimate goal of the research is to design search-historybased user interface tools to support information seeking. The results reported here focus on the management of complex in...