Does Eidetica eliminate, or encourage "manual" enrichment of incoming documents with meta information such as keywords or categories?

Computer systems can help users find information quickly when there is human-supervised meta information. Eidetica encourages addition of such meta information by suggesting the information enrichments, so that users, in 99% of the cases, do not need to add such information manually. But the person who adds the information, or the information manager, is always in charge, which ensures maximum reliability.

Furthermore, we have found that well managed and enriched collections make better implementations of the t·find^® search system.

Should we define thesauri and taxonomies or have them extracted automatically?

The problem with a "human-defined" list of "controlled keywords", thesaurus or taxonomy is that in time, it will soon become outdated as new subjects enter the picture.

On the other hand, it is well known that whereas software can more or less discover that new subject areas are emerging, it is unable to automatically establish a "label" for such new areas.

Intrinsic to the Eidetica approach is that support is offerred to both fixed keyword lists or hierarchical systems (and the mapping of new documents to such lists), as well as maintaining on-going support for the increasing number of classifications.