Managing All That Data
Big data. Unstructured data. Semi-structured data. Data, data, data. It seems like everyone is talking about data and the challenges that comes with it.
Technology in the Sky
Algebraix Data Corporation announced its SPARQL Server RDF database successfully executed all 17 of its queries on the SP2 benchmark up to one billion triples on one computer node. This computationally complex testing exceeds all others before it.
Ranganathan, Classification, and British Toys
I’ve mentioned Ranganathan briefly in some earlier posts. Let’s look at his innovations and influence from a historical perspective.
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was an Indian mathematician and […]
Ensuring Compliance
The impending ICD-10 coding classification transition is a challenge for not just hospitals and physicians, but other healthcare providers are preparing for this "new world" with training.
Application Blocks Aid Customization
Microsoft recently released Enterprise Library (EL) 6.0 with a semantic logging application block. Enterprise Library has a long history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business (LOB) systems.
Emotional Intelligence
Defining our own emotions is difficult enough, but now Google is working on a semantic natural language technology that will read emotions and meaning from your internet history so your query returns a dynamic and comprehensive result. Search is no longer about just keywords.
Finding Family
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to family history and genealogy. Indexing massive amounts of data provides FamilySearch.org the advantage when it comes to searching genealogical records online by name, date and location. Currently there are 2.4 million rolls of microfilm in their vault undergoing digital conversation, and that doesn't include new digital images that are being collected online.
Theory of Knowledge: 19th and 20th Century Developments
In the 19th century, the study of the nature of knowledge came to be known as epistemology. The term was introduced by Scottish metaphysic James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864). Epistemological writers explored how knowledge relates to connected notions, such as belief and truth. They also considered the means of production of knowledge. And to a large extent, they embraced skepticism. a mode of thinking that required information to be well supported by evidence before it could be accepted as fact, i.e., knowledge.