The Sixth International Workshop on Ontology Matching will take place in October in Bonn, Germany. The workshop will bring leaders from all genres and backgrounds to assess how academic advances are or are not addressing real-world requirements when it comes to ontology matching.
EBSCO Publishing has merged with the H.W. Wilson Company to improve discovery services for libraries. The “win-win” is that EBSCO databases will have enhanced indexing because the Wilson controlled vocabularies will be integrated into EBSCO's controlled vocabularies. Subscribers of Wilson databases will be able to search the EBSCO Discovery Service for all Wilson indexing, abstracts, and full text.
One woman’s dedication to researching local and family history was recognized at the Royal Australian Historical Society New England and North West Affiliated Societies Conference in Armidale. It is the first award Eve Chappell has been given for her work.
The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine will be held in December in Singapore. This interesting forum will address natural languages as a means of scientific and professional communication.
Loudoun Mutual Insurance Company has engaged KeyMark Inc. to engineer and implement a document management solution to gain greater efficiencies and improve processes.
WorthPoint is a known provider of valuation and associated services for art, antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint Forums provide access to expert options and debates regarding the world of collecting. Together, they are integrated with the company’s price guide, Worthopedia, which contains over 90 million items. With that volume of content, a taxonomy is definitely in order.
Karlsruhe has released OntoBroker 6.1 and OntoStudio 3.1 as part of the ontoprise product suite, the only infrastructure supporting all major W3C SemanticWeb recommendations including OWL, RDF(s), RIF and ObjectLogic.