Content Aggregator Toolkits: Integrating Institutional and Vendor Content

Robert McWilliams

SCI200304

17 November 2003
Version 1.0
13 Pages

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Major professional content aggregators are offering tools and services to integrate their own premium content with an institution's in-house information. The products claim to increase corporate productivity by reducing both information ‘glut’ and ‘overlook’, and offer the vendors an opportunity to commercialize taxonomies first developed to manage their own vast databases. The toolkits are part of the continuing effort to make content more valuable through closer integration with key business processes and applications.

This report provides an overview of three products - Factiva Fusion, LexisNexis Content Organizer and OneSource Content Optimization Services - and takes a closer look at the respective taxonomies associated with these solutions. The ability to customize the taxonomies for individual customer’s needs will be particularly important for many users.