Access Innovations Meets the Indexing Needs of The Discovery Channel and the Weather Channel

Albuquerque, NM (December 7, 2006) - The Discovery Channel recently purchased two Desktop Editions of Thesaurus Master from Access Innovations, Inc., to assist in the indexing and categorization of their content. Access Innovations’ Thesaurus Master allows users to construct a taxonomy based on custom vocabularies in order to quickly and efficiently parse data. In addition, Thesaurus Master also provides many features that help the user view and conform their taxonomy for the purposes best suited to the individual user.

Thesaurus Master, compliant with ISO 2788 (monolingual), ISO 5964 (multilingual) and NISO Z39.19, simplifies the construction of taxonomies by allowing the user complete access to the terms, their history, and the hierarchical branches that comprise the overall taxonomy. Should a user need to change the content of a term as it evolves over time, there are resources within TM that make this function easy.

The Discovery Channel is working with Hung Vu, of Electronic Scriptorium, in order to construct their taxonomy. A partner to Access Innovations, Inc. in the industry of information management, Electronic Scriptorium is a unique company that uses monastics to archive and preserve data for numerous news and private commerce interests. Currently, Electronic Scriptorium contracts work to more than 60 monks and nuns in 15 different monasteries. Their clients include Time Life, The New York Times, Toyota, Bank of America and Harley Davidson Motorcycles, as well as the Discovery Channel.

The Weather Channel purchased AII’s MAIstro Enterprise Addition, and contracted AII’s editorial department for taxonomy development and rule building. The Weather Channel needed an efficient search engine in order to index the content of their newly constructed taxonomy. In addition to an engine that could rapidly parse data, The Weather Channel required the accuracy provided by MAIstro in order to accurately differentiate between the subtle differences in weather patterns.

Access Innovations, a privately owned, and independently operated business, has been an industry leader in database construction and information management for the past 33 years. Based in Albuquerque New Mexico, Access Innovations continues to strive for excellence in providing their customers the cutting edge of information management technology. In a world flooded with an ever-increasing supply of digital information, the tools of data management must be able to efficiently filter the types of “noise” that serve to bog down the user. The software tools created by Access Innovations have been successfully filtering that noise for decades now.