Archive for 2011
Traveling Semantically
We often talk about how semantic technology has changed the IT world, the search world, and even the healthcare world, but how has it affected the retail world of travel? The product of travel is about price, time and place; not much different than buying seasonal produce. Shopping the experience means using customer benefits, words, and concepts to wrap the travel product in advance – to anticipate customer needs.
Read MoreHybrid Cloud Computing Becoming More and More in Demand
IBM South Africa has announced new cloud solutions to help clients drive efficient and scalable computing services. It seems an increasing number of organizations are attempting to leverage the scale and flexibility of public cloud, but don’t want to lose control of resources that exist outside their brick and mortar facility. Enter the hybrid or shared services cloud model.
Read MoreApache Lucene 3.4.0 Released
No one will argue that search is a very important part of any enterprise content management system. Findability is key. What is the point of having quality content if no one can find it?
Read MoreStandards for the Clouds
The UK government’s national Cloud Computing strategy is soon to be published and many wonder what the decision on industry-wide standards will be. Rumors are they will not be developing new, but adapting to current ones available.
Read MoreFinding New Among the Old
Indexing is becoming one of the key information management methods. That is not new news. The fascination of categorizing and putting vast information in a findable form is what drives good taxonomy building.
Read MoreROI During Coding Migration
In the healthcare world, the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is one of the most impactful change to a healthcare provider’s business. With the dramatic increase in codes from roughly 18,000 to more than 140,000, processes for scheduling, care delivery, diagnostics, billing, and analytics will all change in one way or another.
Read MoreNew Academic Publishing Platform Being Built
Publishing Technology has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research. The new online platform for research into governance, sustainability and the environment will be built using Publishing Technology’s innovative semantic web based publishing software, pub2web.
Read MorePostgreSQL 9.1 Released
The PostgreSQL 9.1 open source database offers users new features including some that are not duplicated with any other vendor.
Read MoreTraditional Media Still Hanging On
Despite the predictions of many, the death of traditional media may not have arrived, just yet. The latest Ipsos Mendelsohn survey of affluent Americans reveals less than 20% of “rich” Americans have embraced newer technologies.
Read MoreLRMI Project Forms Working Group
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project creating a common vocabulary for describing learning resources on the Internet. They have recently announced the formation of their technical working group, which includes representatives from leading experts in the fields of education, publishing, and metadata.
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