The Swedish Research Council Selects IDOL to Create a Single Web Portal for Academia and Citizens of Sweden CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 4/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc ((LSE: AU.) or (LSE:AU.L)), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise,today announced that The Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsradet, hasselected its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform as part ofThe Swedish government's initiative to promote research, e-learning andcollaboration within Sweden's education system. Autonomy's Meaning-basedComputing technologies will enable the Research Council to consolidate allof the country's academic information into one single web portal,Forsking.se. As one of the co-owners and the host of the editorial offices forForsking.se, The Swedish Research Council, together with nine other publicauthorities, wanted to develop a nationwide website to provide a singleaccess point for academia, as well as the general public, to effectivelyfind online research information and learning support from disparatesources. The aim of the portal is to make academic information moreaccessible by organizing data from different research projects,supplementing texts with comprehensible summaries, and incorporating clear,straight-forward presentations. The Swedish Research Council selected Autonomy's IDOL for Forsking.sefor its ability to conceptually form an understanding of information,regardless of its format, and to automate many time-consuming manualprocesses. Through the use of Autonomy's automatic categorisationfunctions, Forsking.se's small editorial team is able to focus on its mainbusiness objective - the creation of new content for the site, rather thanspending time managing the portal through manual classification and taggingof all existing and new data. With IDOL, the portal's editorial team andvarious contributors will be able to quickly and accurately upload all newarticles without the need to tag or create taxonomies as the softwareautomatically classifies these documents. Users of Forsking.se will now beable to find information quicker, while delivering betterreturn-on-investment for The Swedish Research Council. Forsking.se contains information in various multimedia formats abouteverything from climate reports to the latest science progress inspecialized medical fields and offers separate entry points for teachers,scientists, high school students and university students. The Autonomysolution will make it easier for these target groups to find relevantinformation as through Autonomy's Automatic Query Guidance functionality,the users are given suggestions for different filtering options to enablethem to quickly locate the data they require. "We often hear from teachers, students, scientists and researchers thatthey would like to have a single website where they could find research andacademic information easily and effectively. Autonomy will make this areality and through the technology's automation capabilities, we will beable to make this a viable and manageable project," said Ulf Daneklev,Forsking.se's editor at The Swedish Research Council. Through Forsking.se, academic information will not only be moreaccessible to the public, but collaboration amongst universities, collegesas well as the research industry will be promoted, enabling a betterquality of research and education in the country. The Swedish media willalso access the site to make use of various articles and interactivepresentations and animations to support and explain popular news andfeature topics. "Autonomy takes pride in delivering innovative technologies toacademia," commented Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "We look forward tofurther supporting The Swedish Research Council as it continues to enhanceits web portal with more and more advanced features such as theincorporation of more multi-media content." About Vetenskapsradet The Swedish Research Council provides support for basic research in allacademic disciplines. The Council is headed by a Director General and aBoard. It includes three Scientific Councils and two Committees thatpromote and support basic research in their respective spheres of activity.Each Scientific Council and Committee has a Secretary General with advancedscientific expertise who is responsible for the work of the Council orCommittee Concerned. The Secretariat is composed of the management and the executive bodies.The Secretariat's functions are planning, preparation and execution ofissues in the various disciplines, and also for analysis and investigation,information and administration. About Autonomy Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader ininfrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading themeaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptualand contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data includingunstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy'ssoftware powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterpriseapplications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, callcenter solutions, rich media management, information risk managementsolutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analystsas the clear leader in enterprise search. Autonomy's customer base comprises of more than 17,000 global companiesand organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg,Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson,Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York StockExchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S.Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and ExchangeCommission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 400 VARsand Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA,Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Satyam, Sybase,Symantec, TIBCO, Vignette and Wipro. The company has offices worldwide. The Autonomy Group includes: ZANTAZ, the leader in the archiving,e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets;Cardiff, a leading provider of Intelligent Document solutions; etalk,award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products andVirage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillancetechnology. Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarksof Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of theirrespective owners.
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