Archive for 2011
New Partnership Enhances Document Management
Svoboda Capital Partners has made an investment in Databank, a provider of outsourced imaging and information solutions, alongside executive management and lower mid-market mezzanine capital fund Merion Investment Partners.
Read MoreNew Fellow of ACM Awarded for Semantic Web Contributions
Professor Dame Wendy Hall has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Dame Wendy is the first person from outside North America to hold this position in the ACM’s 60-year history.
Read MoreTwitter Places Moves Toward Semantic Search
Localeze’s “Persistent ID” (PID) system has been integrated into Twitter Places alongside other services such as Gowalla and OpenTable.
Read MoreNASA Project Gets Apache Stamp of Approval
A NASA-led project has won the full support of the Apache Software Foundation, bolstering development efforts around Java-based middleware that uses metadata to foster cross-platform collaboration.
Read MoreNew Website Reaching Out to Readers
F+W Media have partnered to create a new online venture, NetPlaces.com, which pairs F+W’s content and eCommerce engine with the About.com platform.
Read MoreNew Visual Recognition Technology Understands Images
As technology goes, visual recognition continues to be one of the most talked about areas. So it was no surprise when Cortexica came on the scene and started using algorithms that emulate the visual cortex and the techniques the brain uses to identify and categorize objects.
Read MorePlease Bear with Us
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Read MoreTechnology Raising All Boats
Words of encouragement mixed with some motivational challenge for SLA members came from James King, the 2010 President of the Washington, DC Chapter and long-time convener of the Information Futurists Caucus.
Read MoreNew Partnership Expands Semantic Potential
Epic Media Group has partnered with LucidMedia. This new alliance will allow Epic Media Group to deploy interactive advertising campaigns leveraging the LucidMedia demand-side digital advertising management platform.
Read MoreA Well-Constructed Thesaurus
A thesaurus is a special type of controlled vocabulary, which is itself a list of specifically selected terms to represent a set of concepts – concepts described in an electronic collection of documents, podcasts, captioned photos, emails, or other types of content.
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