Blue Angel Technologies Inc. Announces Innovative Software Product Using AltaVista Search...Provides Enhanced Search Capability for Internet Users Worldwide...VALLEY FORGE Valley Forge, on the Schuylkill River, SE Pa., NW of Philadelphia. There, during the American Revolution, the main camp of the Continental Army was established (Dec., 1777–June, 1778) under the command of Gen. George Washington. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1997--Blue Angel Technologies Inc. announced Wednesday the availability of its advanced information server, MDS/AltaVista. The server combines Blue Angel's structured search software with Digital Equipment Corporation's AltaVista full text search engine to provide users with powerful new information management options. "What this new product makes possible," said Jim Restivo, president of Blue Angel Technologies, "is a new approach to information management on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Current web search tools examine textual tex·tu·al adj. Of, relating to, or conforming to a text. tex  tu·al·ly adv. information on web pages worldwide and create centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. indexes to assist users in finding information. "However, the vast amount of information on the Internet makes it increasingly difficult to get meaningful results from search queries with such centralized indexes." The new product makes it possible to use metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. in a way that allows users to create queries that will pinpoint specific information desired without the need to use a centralized index. So, for example, instead of creating a query to look for keywords or phrases, MDS/AltaVista provides the ability to format a query that can specify geographic areas, language of resource, date ranges, authors, and the like. And since the structured search tools are based on open internationally accepted standards, users do not have to worry about being locked into proprietary solutions. "Today's announcement gives users the ability to seamlessly search both structured and unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. sources using AltaVista Search," said Jeanette Horan, vice president of engineering for Digital Equipment Corp. "Combining the power of AltaVista Search with Blue Angel Technologies' structured search tools will open up exciting new opportunities for users. As a result, users will be able to search library databases, museum records and government databases throughout the world," continued Horan. The new Blue Angel product enables users to automatically access and retrieve information from any number of distributed AltaVista indexes using the internationally accepted ANSI/NISO Z39.50 standard. The open standard permits the user to create a single query that will simultaneously access an unlimited number of servers world-wide with the returned search results being presented in one consolidated list regardless of the number of databases searched. The user is thus freed from the need to search each database separately and subsequently manage the result sets. MDS/AltaVista is available immediately by contacting Blue Angel Technologies. -0- About Blue Angel Technologies Blue Angel Technologies Inc. is a developer of software tools for the discovery, maintenance and publishing of structured information for the Internet and intranet markets with specific expertise in the Z39.50 protocol. Blue Angel's suite of tools include Meta Data Server (MDS MDS, n See temporomandibular pain-dysfunction syndrome. MDS 1 Maternal deprivation syndrome, see there 2 Myelodysplastic syndrome, see there ), Meta Data Client (MDC (1) (Mobile Daughter Card) See riser card. (2) See Meta Data Coalition. ) and Meta Data Manager (MDS). For more information, visit Blue Angel's World Wide Web site at http://www.bluangel.com or call 610/917-9200. -0- AltaVista and AltaVista Search are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corp. Meta Data Server (MDS), Meta Data Client (MDC) and Meta Data Manager (MDM (Modular Digital Multitrack) An audio recorder that mixes and records multiple tracks of digital audio. The two major MDM technologies are ADAT and DTRS. See ADAT and DTRS. ) are trademarks of Blue Angel Technologies Inc. CONTACT: Blue Angel Technologies Inc. Jon Riewe, 610/917-9200 riewe@bluangel.com |
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