By: Meg Campbell Software developer nextPression has launched a Web-based service that state press associations can use to gather public notices from member papers and publish them online at a single site. The service aims to help newspapers, particularly smaller ones, protect the revenue stream that public notices represent, as those notices may move from print to online publication.
The company's Public Notice Service (PNS) uses proprietary unstructured database technology to crawl around member papers' Web pages, PDF files and publishing systems to extract public-notice information and upload it to a centralized state press site. PNS periodically reviews the content, extracts all public notices, and publishes it to a single, Web-based platform.
The advantage, according to nextPression's Chris Feola, is that smaller papers do not have to start up their own Web sites simply to have somewhere to post the lucrative public notices. They can accept the advertising for placement on their state press association?s site.
Indiana's Hoosier State Press Association has already begun using the service, and Texas' association also has signed on, Feola says.
nextPression was launched several years ago by Belo veterans Chris Feola and Jim Jennings to develop products and services around unstructured data -- that is, data found outside the traditional confines of a database. The company also offers a Web site monitoring tool that users can program to do highly defined microsearches.
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