Posts by Melody Smith
Freeing The Data – Trends for the Future
Data is not a singular thing or process. Technology continues to evolve and branch out with highly scalable web search engines, increasingly capable natural language processing technologies, and artificial intelligence. Watson. Need we say more?
Read MoreFindability is a Worthy Goal
Semantics has almost become a household word, at least in the technology world. Its role in the development of knowledge management tools and semantic search continues to grow.
Read MoreAgile Business Intelligence
Companies often marketing their business intelligence and data warehousing products as agile solutions, meaning that they are easy to work with and adaptable to business changes. In the project management genre, the word Agile refers to the software development methodology.
Read MoreMetadata: Use It or Lose It
Metadata seems to be the word of the year. Though it certainly is a key component of any document management system, there seems to be ambiguity around the appropriate use of metadata.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence the Focus of Spring Symposium
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is offering the 2011 Spring Symposium Series, March 21-23, 2011 at and in cooperation with Stanford University. The focus is Artificial Intelligence for Business Agility.
Read MoreNew South Wales Digitizing Archives
The State Records Authority of New South Wales (NSW) is beginning a project to implement a digital archiving facility that would improve digital record keeping across the Government.
Read MoreWorld Wide Cookbook
The internet is a resource that is used in so many different ways, i.e. news distribution, research data, social networking, etc. For some of us, we also use it as a cookbook – or at least access to virtual cookbooks containing the recipes we seek. Google has added a new feature to its search engine that helps in that endeavor – Recipe View.
Read MoreKMWorld Includes Expert System in Top 100
Expert System has been selected in the 11th annual edition of KMWorld magazine’s list of “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.” Their inclusions was attributed to their semantic software that searches, discovers, classifies and interprets text information.
Read MoreINSPIRE Directive Gets Support From GGP Systems
INSPIRE is part of a suite of European Directives that aim to standardize and ensure access to public data across Europe. Designed to improve access to and knowledge of geographical data holdings, the INSPIRE directive requires that member states provide public access to location based data related to the environment. The latest release of GGP Systems’ desktop GIS will support that directive.
Read MoreHow Secure is Your Geodata?
There has been lots of talk lately about stalkers locating you based on the photos you post online using your smart phone or GPS enabled mobile phone. I have received numerous emails from concerned friends and family warning me of the dire straits and danger lurking around the next photo I post of my dogs at the park. Truthfully, I deleted them all. “It’s just another urban myth,” I thought to myself.
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