Posts by Melody Smith
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
We have found the perfect job for someone who is in the information technology field and who loves baseball. Though that isn’t always a combination you think of together, the Cleveland Indians are seeking a Data Architect for Baseball Systems. This person will design, implement, and manage the Baseball Department’s information architecture.
Read MoreMore Uses for Semantic Technology
Mimesi has adopted Expert System’s semantic technology to strengthen its information delivery platform. Geeks.com brought this news to our attention in their article, “Mimesi Selects Expert System to Strengthen its Media Monitoring Platform.”
Read MoreRevealing Relationships
In this time and age when metadata is included in almost every conversation, this tongue in cheek blog post caught my attention. The author reads aloud an article, which imagines a dialog between Alan Turing and Winston Churchill that might have taken place if the UK Home Secretary Theresa May had been Turing’s line-manager.
Read MoreA Different Perspective
What is better than one interesting and slightly humorous taxonomy? Two, you say? How about three?
Read MoreCrowdsourcing the Galaxies
Crowdsourcing is when a large group of people contribute services, ideas, or content towards one task or project. This is often done by an online community. By combining the efforts of many, both volunteers and employees, the goal can be reached and often at a greater result than originally intended.
Read MoreOpportunities in the Field
In an effort to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are excited to share some career opportunities that we found with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
Read MoreWebinar on Document Migration
Concept Searching is in the semantic metadata generation business and the developer of the Smart Content Framework. They are sponsoring a webinar on ‘How To Drive Intelligent Migration’ on Wednesday, September 4th, at 11:30-11:45 a.m. EDT.
Read MoreEvent Makes it Easy to Spend that Budget
ZL Technologies was one of the features at the 930Gov Showcase in Washington, DC this week. 930Gov Showcase is organized by the Digital Government Institute (DGI) to enable federal attendees to engage directly with leading-edge vendors of eDiscovery, cloud, records management, and other information governance solutions before the end of the fiscal year in September, a.k.a. budget time.
Read MoreHandling all that Data
Data, metadata, big data — it seems we are drowning in that four letter word. That is not a bad thing, especially if you understand how metadata works with your data in searching and findability.
Read MoreSemantic Conference Offers Help
The Semantic Web continues to produce a profound effect at every level of information consumption, from the individual end-user to the enterprise. This evolution doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon. You can easily see the implications for the corporate world are endless, thus the many organizations and products that continue to arrive on the scene offering “help”.
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