Posts by Melody Smith
Let’s Do The Time Warp
Development company, Dexetra, has launched the first “life database” application. This new product, named Friday, automates the process of building a self-database with semantic technology.
Read MoreStandards Development Topic of Discussion in NYC
“ANSI Course 287, The American Way” will be held March 30, 2011 and will provide an in-depth look at U.S. voluntary consensus standardization and ANS development process.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Coming Into Its Own
When you consider that 79% of American adults use the Internet, 38% of Internet users log onto an online networking site like Facebook or LinkedIn each day, and 28% of Internet users look for information online each day about a service or product they are thinking of buying – it is easy to connect social media and semantic technology. But who is driving who?
Read MoreMetadata Called Into Court
A federal court has ruled, for the first time, that the government must produce metadata if requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Read MoreBlogging Terms Make it to the Big Time
The Oxford Dictionary has added various digital terms, including “bloggable” to their infamous resource.
Read MoreJava is Looking at the Clouds
The next enterprise edition of Java is progressing at Oracle, who is reported to be considering improvements for cloud computing, REST Web services, and other capabilities.
Read MoreThree Webinars on Metadata and Standards
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) have announced they will be continuing their educational partnership in 2011 with three joint webinars on topics related to metadata, linked data, and RDA vocabularies.
Read MoreSemantic and Search – Match Made in Heaven?
Expert System and Vejo Park have announced a collaboration with the Crisis Unit for Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the development of a software platform for the identification and real-time selection of important information from the Web. The result of that collaboration between Vejo Park’s G3Docs software and Expert System’s COGITO semantic software.
Read MoreMonster and HotJobs Join Recruiting Resources
Monster.com and HotJobs announce the completion of their integration into one seamless website. The HotJobs site and related data have been migrated onto the Monster platform
Read MoreIEEE Collaborates with Access Innovations, Inc. To Engineer Re-Indexing of Xplore Digital Library
IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has collaborated with Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data and content management industry, to complete a comprehensive re-indexing of approximately 2.1 million of the 2.8 million IEEE article records in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library database.
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