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Access Innovations (R) Incorporated, founded in 1978 and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a privately owned company that provides clients with database development and information management products and services. The firm offers customers thesaurus development and maintenance, taxonomy development, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) development, document scanning and conversion, abstracting, indexing, news filtering, and other technologies and services. The company is known for its Data Harmony taxonomy management and NewsIndexer news story indexing applications. Data Harmony, introduced in 1998, streamlines database and text collection management operations. The program is built on XML and Java technologies, supporting integration with existing systems. Data Harmony includes the Thesaurus Master (TM) and MAIstro (TM) taxonomy and thesaurus creation; XIS (TM) content creation; M.A.I. (TM) automated indexing and filtering, MAI Chem (TM) patent, technical report, and news feed filtering; and MAI Lib (TM) library subject heading creation modules. The system provides users with RDF tagging, vocabulary import and merge, multilingual thesaurus generation, and other features. Access Innovations' NewsIndexer application, marketed to newspapers, handles media industry vocabularies. It includes automated and manual news filtering features. The system complies with News Industry Text Format (NITF) and International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) standards. Access Innovations acquired the University of Southern California's National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) database in 1984. NICEM contains records on over 423,000 educational audiovisual materials. Access Innovations' systems are employed by organizations across the business, education, and government
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