NetworkedPlanet announces TMCore SharePoint Module 3.1
13/02/2009, NetworkedPlanet are pleased to annouce the release of version 3.1 of the TMCore SharePoint Module.
The TMCore SharePoint Module is a tight integration between Microsoft SharePoint and the TMCore information management server that greatly improves the way information is organised, classified and located with Microsoft SharePoint solutions.
This new release sees a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, but more significantly it includes a number of features that have been requested by our customers including support for paged faceted search results and some new facet selectors for faceted search; more flexible auto-classification schemes; and the ability to filter and sort SharePoint lists by the classification information attached to the list items.
The new version is available as an upgrade for all customers with a current maintenance contract. For more information and download details please email us.
Networked Planet wins “Module of the Year” prize for EasySearch
Oslo 12/11/08, at the EPiServer Techforum NetworkedPlanet were awarded the Module of the Year prize on EPiCode for EasySearch.
EasySearch is a powerful, simple to configure, search engine for the EPiServer content management system. It supports full text indexing of pages and files based on EPiserver events. Further, it provides facilities to developers to refine the indexes that are created to provide the best possible search experience for the customer.
The EasySearch module comes complete with a generic search and indexing API for developers, completely customizable indexing, an administrator plug-in for managing the index and several ASP.NET 2.0 web parts for building search pages and search driven web sites in seconds.
EasySearch is also gaining enterprise search level features with support for load balanced and federated searching.
NetworkedPlanet technical lead on EasySearch, Andy Brodie, had this to say about EasySearch:
"There was a clear need in the EPiServer community for a robust, easily configurable and developer friendly search engine. With EasySearch we’ve done all the under the hood event processing and exposed a set of interfaces and hooks that really empower developers to quickly build great search solutions."
Graham Moore Director of NetworkedPlanet added "Having the EPiCode platform was an ideal way for us to take EasySearch to market. We have had great support from BVNetwork and the EPiServer developer community in building this module."
Steve Celius of BVNetwork said on the day "NetworkedPlanet follows best practices when developing the search module for EPiServer CMS, giving full insight into each step of the development by committing often and providing good comments. They respond to tickets in a timely manner and make new releases available often. The source is of high quality and contains some of the most advanced event handling and page life cycle tracking available on the EPiServer platform."
For more information, please download a technical overview of EasySearch.
TMCL moves towards finalisation in ISO process
The Topic Map Constraint Language standard, which defines a way to create constraints/ schema for topic maps is moving into the final stages of the ISO process.
This standard is really comprised of two parts; the first is a generic framework to enable anyone to create custom constraints and have them evaluated as part of the TMCL evaluation model. The second part defines around 20 built in constraint types for the most common use cases.
TMCL uses the TMDM to store constraints and thus uses CTM as one authoring syntax.
We will be updating and publishing the TMCL tutorial that we have given several times now, both as a full document and as a series of blog entries.
The editors welcome all comments and feedback, the latest document can be found here:
TMCL FCD
New Open-source Full-Text Search Plugin for EPiServer
NetworkedPlanet EasySearch is an integration with Lucene.NET that provides responsive full-text search for EPiServer. It can be installed and configured in moments, integrates directly with the EPiServer event model and provides high-performance full-text search features on any EPiServer web site.
For more information please see the open-source project homepage at http://www.epieasysearch.com/
NetworkedPlanet is Hiring!
We are looking for an experienced C# .NET developer to join our UK-based development team. The full job details are posted here.
NetworkedPlanet Announce Release of SharePoint Module 3.0
03/03/2008, NetworkedPlanet are pleased to annouce the release of the much anticipated TMCore SharePoint Module 3.0.
This release sees a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, but more significantly it includes a large number of features that greatly improve the way information is organised, classified and located with Microsoft SharePoint solutions.
The new key features can be grouped into several different areas:
Ontology Design
Creating a well-designed ontology is the most important first step in designing a complete information architecture that can integrate SharePoint and non-SharePoint content into a cohesive and logical whole.
- Use the new NetworkedPlanet NPCL Editor plugin for Visual Studio to visually define an ontology for a complete SharePoint solution. Use the integration with SharePoint web services to create SharePoint content types and fields.
- The NPCL Editor plugin can also generate a SharePoint feature to allow the topic map ontology, any additional taxonomy and the SharePoint content types and field definitions to be reliably deployed in multiple server environments such as Development, QA, and Production.
Content Classification and Organisation
The new release makes it very easy to organise and classify content against taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and in terms of other SharePoint items regardless of which site or list they are in. The TMCore SharePoint Module 3.0 is designed to normalise the information space so that items can be more logically connected.
- New ways to find and select related topics; Hierarchy Selectors, Query Selectors, and Creators
- Hierarchy Selectors, allow users to choose related topics from tree structures defined in the topic map. These may be fixed taxonomy trees or user-generated trees that result from the creation of other item to item relationships.
- Query Selectors, allow developers to define specific, contextual queries that return a candidate list for the user to select from. Query Selectors allow almost any specific business logic about the most appropriate related topics for a given context to be defined.
- Creators provide a unique way to create a new SharePoint item (even one in another list or on another site) while editing an existing item. This feature removes the need for the user to constantly navigate from one list to another creating items before they can be hooked together.
- Simple tagging support. Optional support for ad-hoc "tagging" of content is now supported across all SharePoint list and content types. This feature allows users to get started easily tagging and organising content using their own terms and allows a community of users to collaborate on building a folksonomy for the classification of their content.
- Social Networking Features. A user's ad-hoc tags can be automatically shared with her colleagues and with other trusted users.
Searching and Navigating in SharePoint
Also new with version 3.0 of the TMCore SharePoint Module is the introduction of the Topic Map Index Service. This near-real time, in-memory index of Topic Map information means that complex information queries can be executed with a high throughput to deliver up-to-the-second information from across the portal.
The Topic Map Index Service is used to power a number of search and navigation web parts that make it possible to effectively find your way around a SharePoint portal.
- One Hop and Two Hop navigtaion controls can be used to show relevant contextual information about any SharePoint item.
- Advanced Faceted Search. Utilising a combination of hieararchy and topic type pickers this web part can be used to slice and dice through SharePoint content to allow users to find what they are really looking for.
- Advanced Faceted Search integrated with text search. The Advanced Faceted Search web parts can be used to slice and dice the results of a SharePoint portal text search.
For more information about this or any other NetworkedPlanet product please email contact@networkedplanet.com
Networked Planet releases TMCore EPiServer Module v2.2 and v3.2
TMCore EPiServer Module v2.2 and v3.2 Released
NetworkedPlanet launches the latest version of the EPiServer Topic Map module, now supporting EPiServer CMS 5. The TMCore EPiServer Module provides seamless integration with one of the premier web content management solutions on the Microsoft .NET platform.
The TMCore EPiServer Module delivers a simple, powerful model for EPiServer editors and administrators to exploit the flexibility of topic maps within their web site, providing concept based navigation and search as well as improved link management.
NetworkedPlanet has been working closely with our business partners in order to deliver exciting new features and an improved user experience in this latest release.
The EPiServer Module highlights:
- All new AJAX based topic association editing environment.
- Full exploitation of the new features of TMCore07.
- Configuration and data consistency checking and automatic repair utilities, integrated in with EPiServer's administrator tools.
- Powerful topic map navigation data controls that provide a simple mechanism for querying the topic map and rendering the results using the standard template-based data-bound ASP.NET controls.
The Topic Map advantage enables organisations to organise and find their information in a non-hierarchical, multi-dimensional way. The TMCore engine can be used as an integration platform with content from multiple system aggregated and delivered through the power of the EPiServer platform.
The TMCore EPiServer Module is compatible with ASP.NET 1.1 & 2.0 and EPiServer 4.62 and later.
If you would like to request an evaluation license for the EPiServer Module and TMCore, please complete the evaluation form at: http://www.networkedplanet.com/products/evalreq.aspx.
TMCore07 SP3 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest update for our TMCore07 Enterprise Information Server.
Service Pack 3 (SP3) is primarily a performance and bug-fix release. There are no changes to existing APIs and this upgrade is recommended for all customers currently using TMCore07 SP2.
All licensed users of TMCore07 (Full or Lite edition) can download the SP3 installation package from here.
If you would like to evaluate the TMCore07 Enterpise Information Server, please visit our evaluation request page to request an evaluation license.
Networked Planet releases TMCore EPiServer Module v2.1
TMCore EPiServer Module v2.1 Released
NetworkedPlanet launches the latest version of the EPiServer Topic Map module. The TMCore EPiServer Module v2.1 provides seamless integration with one of the premier web content management solutions on the Microsoft .NET 2.0 platform.
The TMCore EPiServer Module delivers a simple, powerful model for EPiServer editors and administrators to exploit the flexibility of topic maps within their web site, providing concept based navigation and search as well as improved link management.
NetworkedPlanet has been working closely with our business partners in order to deliver exciting new features and an improved user experience in this latest release.
The EPiServer Module highlights:
- Improvements to AJAX interface to support:
- hierarchical taxonomy navigation.
- Direct EPiServer page selection.
- Automated upgrade for users of v1.x and v2.0.x of the module.
- Occurrence mapping, allowing EPiServer fields to be replicated in to the topic map as occurrences.
- Support for scheduled consistency checking.
The Topic Map advantage enables organisations to organise and find their information in a non-hierarchical, multi-dimensional way. The TMCore engine can be used as an integration platform with content from multiple system aggregated and delivered through the power of the EPiServer platform.
The TMCore EPiServer Module is compatible with ASP.NET 2.0 and EPiServer 4.61. A release for EPiServer CMS will be available in Q4 2007.
If you would like to request an evaluation license for the EPiServer Module and TMCore, please complete the evaluation form at: http://www.networkedplanet.com/products/evalreq.aspx.
TMCore Powers a New Way to Explore Film
Indiepix launches world’s largest collection of downloadable independent films
- Powered by state-of-the-art topic maps software from NetworkedPlanet
- Offers unique film exploration and navigation capability
Indiepix, a world leading online service created for the independent film community,
has launched one of the most comprehensive independent film resource on the Internet, powered by state of the art navigation software from NetworkedPlanet, the leading vendor of information management tools. Visitors to www.indiepix.net will now, for the first time, be able to discover, explore and purchase more than 3,000 independent films, as well as learn about new films, all classified by Indiepix’s movie experts. Indiepix will give 60 per cent of the profit/revenue from purchase straight to the film-maker, to help support the independent film industry and encourage the production of more movies.
Indiepix is a rapidly expanding organisation – it plans to grow its film library to over 10,000 within the first 18 months of the launch. The service is powered by NetworkedPlanet’s TMCore information management system which provides the state-of-the-art interactive services for customers. NetworkedPlanet’s powerful topic mapping navigation system will enable an increasing number of independent film enthusiasts to find out more about their favourite genres or directors, as well as access rare or hard-to-find films. The new Indiepix service will support independent film-makers by giving 60 per cent of the profits/revenue from every sale through the site back to the film-makers, which will help encourage the development of future projects as well as maintain existing ones.
“This project is designed to open up new opportunities for exploring the world of independent film,” commented Bob Alexander, President of Indiepix. “The new Indiepix site will provide an avenue for independent films to get greater recognition and we will contribute a majority of profits back to the film-makers themselves. It is important that the site is easy to navigate, and that it can recommend new films, directors and actors that visitors may not have heard of – this is by far the best way to encourage greater participation in the independent film industry. NetworkedPlanet understood our objectives from the outset, which is a major factor in why we are now able to launch the most comprehensive resource for independent film on the Internet.”
Each film on the site will contain metadata attachments that allow IndiePix’s in-house team of film experts to insert all sorts of information – who directed it, which country it was filmed in, the reviews it had at release – based on their expertise and evaluation of it. The system will then use TMCore to create relevant links between them, so that when someone is browsing any one film online, it will suggest other links based on relevance and similarities. Once all of the films have this data attached to them, the resulting knowledge base can be easily and intelligently navigated by anyone using the website.
“This project is a great example of how topic maps can be used to enhance online navigation,” commented Kal Ahmed, Founder of NetworkedPlanet. “The system functions in a similar way to a shopkeeper in a clothes store – a customer might have selected a blue shirt, so the shopkeeper suggests they look at similar shirts, as well as cuff-links and ties that match it. IndiePix.net now does the same thing for people who are shopping for independent films.”
TMCore is NetworkedPlanet’s server platform for developing enterprise knowledge and information management applications. The TMCore server will store and manage topic maps of the entire content of a website. Each topic contains metadata which holds information about the file, links to related documents and links to other topics, creating a map of knowledge. This map can be browsed or searched by end-users to find information via key concepts. The result is a detailed index of the resources across a number of systems via a single unified information portal.
About IndiePix
Founded in 2004 in New York, IndiePix is a world leading shop and online service created for the independent film community. It is a group of movie experts, information professionals, media arts specialists, and most importantly, committed supporters of independent film. Born out of the desire to cultivate connections between emerging filmmakers and their potential audiences in a non-traditional, non-exclusive manner, IndiePix offers tailored packages for filmmakers who wish to make their works available for purchase on DVD.
For more information, please visit www.indiepix.net
About NetworkedPlanet
NetworkedPlanet was formed in 2004 to develop topic map processing tools and applications specifically for the Microsoft .NET framework. The company’s first product, TMCore05, was released in January 2005. NetworkedPlanet provides a suite of tools and products to organise and structure the access to information to make it easier to locate and more relevant to end-users. It provides a range of tools scaling up from work-group information management to full-scale commercial websites and enterprise content management systems.
For more information, visit: www.networkedplanet.com
