DOD Takes On Huge Project Using the Semantic Web

By Melody Smith|November 30th, 2011|News, semantic, Standards|Comments Off

The Department of Defense (DOD) is streamlining its millions of personnel and IT systems by standardizing data sharing through the use of the semantic Web. Welcome to the new decade.

We found this interesting information on Information Week Government in their article, “DOD Aims To Improve Info Sharing.” This includes 1.4 million people on active duty in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, 750,000 civilians, and 1.1 million serving in the military reserve units. This is a huge task to streamline information across 15,000 unclassified networks and more than 7 million computers and IT devices. There are two priorities – provide search capable of handling “on-demand, dynamic queries” and to standardize existing and future data into a standard reporting language according to W3C standards. Huge project, but it is nice to see them sticking with the standards.

Melody K. Smith

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About the Author: Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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DOD Takes On Huge Project Using the Semantic Web