Posts by Melody Smith
The Strategic Business Value of a Well-Constructed Taxonomy
By Bert Carelli An organization’s website is today the primary strategic tool not only for delivering information and promoting its scholarly mission, but also for developing and maintaining relationships with and among its members and the larger scholarly community. A unified semantic strategy is the best way of bringing together all elements of that mission…
Read MoreJumo Seeks Connections for Nonprofits
December 8, 2010 – We knew this was coming. They’ve talked about it for months. An online community for nonprofits and charitable organizations – or more specifically, the people with and interested in those organizations. Jumo is the brainchild of Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook and the chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s…
Read MoreNew Local Discovery Service
WHERE, Inc., has launched its new local discovery service, making it easy to find the right places to eat, drink or play by offering personalized recommendations and high-quality guides from local experts.
Read MoreDatabase of Chemicals Creates Community
Chemists have hundreds of data sources online covering tens of millions of different chemical compounds. Unfortunately accessing that online data has not always been easy. ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, may have solved that problem.
Read MoreWhite House Sets High Goals for Digital Rules
The White House is releasing guidance that will promote electronic dockets for rulemaking. The result will be a living document open to public comment during an event hosted by the Brooking Institution in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreProQuest Expands Their Digital Products
ProQuest is expanding its service to government markets through the acquisition of the acclaimed Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines from LexisNexis. The acquisition includes digital products and an expansive microfilm vault.
Read MoreDocuWare Maintains Quality Management System
DocuWare recently announced that they have applied for and received ISO 9001 recertification in 2010. The main requirement for certification is inplace methods and processes to prevent errors and maintaining a seamless Quality Management System.
Read MoreWhat is Too Much Information?
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the amount of digital data and information available? It is no surprise. The amount of data available on the Web ever day continues to reach record-setting proportions, with an estimated 30-percent growth per year.
Read MoreNew Semantic Software for PR Professionals
A new web application has been launched in beta to provide a resource for journalists, editors, etc. to quickly access press releases. PRFilter ranks the relevance to the user based on a profile of their interests built automatically from their own articles. Further filtering on the ranked results makes it easy to find the most relevant stories.
Read MoreSemantics, Wisdom and Standards – The Triple Crown?
Semantic technology is again in the news. Web 3.0, the Semantic Web, is bringing information together. We hear about it more and more and that won’t be changing anytime soon.
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