Metadata — magically
Hiawatha Island Software (HiSoftware) has released its new Metadata Server and Hi-Search engine. The server allows organizations to automatically label Microsoft Office and Web-bound documents with descriptive metadata. Hi-Search is a metadata-only search engine that reportedly yields significantly faster and more accurate matches than full-text engines.
HiSoftware explains its Metadata Server manages all the work involved with assigning and implementing a discovery-level metadata policy. Systems administrators can assign rules (or schema) for embedding metadata at the folder, computer or enterprise level.
Using a crawler, the software automatically embeds or updates files with metadata and generates logs that detail non-compliant resources. An inheritance feature allows the administrator to develop metadata policy and propagation tasks for the entire enterprise.
Hi-Search is said to be the first search tool to provide database-like, "fielded" searches for all metadata- and XML-packaged documents on a network, an intranet or the Internet. Says Robert Yonaitis, HiSoftware’s president and CEO, “Hi-Search makes it possible to conduct a metadata search across a network for metadata-enhanced resources that normally could not be indexed, such as image, audio and video files.”
Hi-Search features include: support for Web documents, Office documents and XML packages; rapid fielded search; HTML index builder; XML catalog builder; and Web search interface report.
Pricing for both products starts at $2,995.