Putting Information in Context (Not Pigeonholes)
KnowledgePlex.org - A Smarter Portal
Conceived of and funded by the Fannie Mae Foundation, KnowledgePlex.org is a national information clearinghouse, intended to serve all the players--practitioners, scholars, investors, policymakers and regulators, students and teachers, and the press--involved in affordable housing and community development. It delivers immediate, single-point access to the most up-to-date relevant news and a comprehensive collection of publications drawn from its 24 partner organizations (such as the Brookings Institution, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Harvard University, and The Urban Institute).
KnowledgePlex delivers this valuable content because of the integration, application, and taxonomy development expertise PPC has provided since 2002. To make KnowledgePlex more useful than portals driven by standard search engines, PPC integrated an ontology, a new level of content classification, into the portal's architecture, using Semagix software.
Powered by the Semagix auto-tagging metadata engine, super-crawlers scan a massive amount of information from a wide variety of sources, and automatically identify, tag, and ferret out data that allows the user to see the complex relationships across documents. If a user searches for information on "predatory lending practices," the search engine will return an article on "predatory" lending in Oregon and alert the user to an article on "unfair" lending practices in Florida, even though the two documents may not use the same descriptive phrases.
At last, a search engine that places information in context rather than in pigeonholes.