Managing Content in a Matter of Minutes

About this technology

Overview

NASA software created to help scientists expeditiously search and organize their research documents is now aiding compliance personnel, law enforcement investigators, and the general public in their efforts to search, store, manage, and retrieve documents more efficiently. Developed at Ames Research Center, NETMARK software was designed to manipulate vast amounts of unstructured and semi-structured NASA documents. Black Tulip Systems Corporation was given the opportunity to preview the NETMARK software in November 2002. Right away, the company knew that the NASA-developed technology would be the perfect complement to its current product offerings. Up until the preview, Black Tulip Systems was focused on content authoring and organizing structured and semi-structured content. With the addition of Ames' NETMARK technology, however, the company could grow the business and access a much larger market for unstructured documents. Ames subsequently licensed the NETMARK software to Black Tulip Systems to make the tool available to people and organizations that need rapid searching of computer networks and systems. Black Tulip Systems has since enhanced NETMARK by adding more robust search tools and user-friendly interfaces, and by speeding up the processing time.