John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), a leading publisher serving
the global Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly (STMS)
communities, today announced it has signed a major license and services
agreement with TEMIS, the award- winning provider of Semantic Content
Enrichment solutions.
Wiley will use TEMIS's Luxid® Platform to enhance its STMS content,
providing more sophisticated search and discovery tools to professional
and academic researchers. Wiley will also leverage Luxid® to identify
similar and related documents promoting greater user engagement with one
of the largest scientific archives of its kind.
“In an age where online resources play a central role in new research,
it is of paramount importance that users are able to quickly identify
and access the content they need,” said Patrik Dyberg, Senior Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer, Wiley. “Wiley hosts one of the
world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online
resources covering STMS research, and this partnership offers
researchers new tools for using this knowledge.”
In addition to indexing Wiley's massive research archive, Luxid® will be
used to annotate current and future information sources, including
reference works, databases and Wiley’s collection of 1,500 journals.
“We are proud to be selected by Wiley to extract tremendous value from
their content across products and disciplines and help them deliver
actionable knowledge to their customers,” said Guillaume Mazieres,
Executive Vice President, North-America Operations, TEMIS. “Wiley and
TEMIS share a passion for innovation that materializes in this semantic
big data initiative.”
About TEMIS:
TEMIS helps organizations structure, manage and exploit their
unstructured information assets. Its flagship platform, Luxid®,
identifies and extracts targeted information to semantically enrich
content with domain-specific metadata. Luxid® enables professional
publishers to efficiently package and deliver relevant information to
their audience, and helps enterprises to intelligently archive, manage,
analyze, discover and share increasing volumes of information.
TEMIS' innovative solutions address the needs of publishers, as well as
Enterprises and have attracted the business of leading organizations
such as AAAS (“Science”), Agence France-Presse, American Society for
Microbiology, BASF, Editions Lefebvre-Sarrut, Elsevier, Gannett (“USA
Today”) HCPro, HighWire, McGraw-Hill Companies, Merck, National
Agricultural Library (US Department of Agriculture), Nature Publishing
Group, Novartis, SAGE Publications, Sanofi- aventis, Simon & Schuster,
Springer Science+Business Media, Thieme, and Thomson Reuters.
Founded in 2000, TEMIS has offices in the United States, Canada, the UK,
France and Germany, and is represented worldwide through its network of
certified partners.
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About Luxid®
Luxid® automates the semantic enrichment of unstructured content,
producing metadata that boosts the relevance of search engines and
enables powerful content navigation features such as facets, similar
document recommendations and semantic links to structured knowledge that
enhance the end-user experience on online portals and drive increased
usage. Semantic metadata can also be used to efficiently develop new
products such as specialized topical collections and knowledge bases for
additional revenue streams.
About Wiley:
Wiley is a global provider of content-enabled solutions that improve
outcomes in research, education, and professional practice. Our core
businesses produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly
journals, reference works, books, database services, and advertising;
professional books, subscription products, certification and training
services and online applications; and education content and services
including integrated online teaching and learning resources for
undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners.
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa, JWb), has been a
valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years,
helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their
aspirations. Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works
of more than 450 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature,
Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.
Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with
operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. The
Company's website can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com.
