“ProQuest’s taxonomy expertise, coupled with RetrievalWare’s proven technology is certain to add significant value for Convera’s clients,” said Ken Kirkley, Director of Corporate Licensing for ProQuest.

Convera, based in Vienna, VA, is a leading provider of search solutions. The new agreement allows Convera to use ProQuest’s taxonomy to classify and organize information in its proprietary RetrievalWare software products.  RetrievalWare solutions provide highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure searches across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages.

ProQuest’s taxonomy allows for the precise mapping and searching of subject fields. It is constantly updated to capture new terms that allow a common language for describing key topics. 

The taxonomy, created by an editorial team, is the basis of ProQuest’s highly regarded indexing and abstracting services, considered essential research tools by librarians and scholars worldwide.    

Convera is offering industry-specific cartridges, based on slices of the ProQuest taxonomy, to plug into RetrievalWare. Convera also offers software licenses for the cartridges, based on ProQuest content, to RetrievalWare users. RetrievalWare's advanced classification solution enables organizations to discover links, knowledge and expertise embedded within otherwise diverse and scattered information sources.

Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages. More than 800 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more. The company’s North American headquarters is in Vienna, Virginia.

ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general-reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide.  Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey^TM electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary^TM and SIRS® educational resources, and XanEdu^TM online faculty and student resources.  For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com .