Posts by Melody Smith
PPC Chosen by National Archives and Records Administration
Project Performance Corporation (PPC) has been awarded a contract by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to support modernization of the Archival Description and Authority Services. PPC will provide expertise in the areas of Application Architecture and Development, Service Oriented Architecture, Taxonomy and Search, Data Management and Modeling, Program and Project Management, and Quality Control.
Read MoreGEOINT Symposium Adds Federal Consultant to Speaker List
Federal Consultant Gary Katz will present at the GEOINT Symposium in New Orleans, L.A. on Thursday, November 3, 2010. The session, “XML Approaches to Facilitating Interoperability, Fusion, and Analysis of GOSINT Metadata Formats,” will include a demonstration of content from multiple sources being fused and analyzed by a Geospatial Open Source Intelligence (GOSINT) application. Gary Katz is a Federal Consultant at MarkLogic Corporation with expertise in text mining, analytics and semantic technologies.
Read MoreAnother Semantic Technology Release
Newly released Sophia Search, a new solution that uses a semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be efficiently recovered, consolidated and leveraged, delivers a three-dimensional solution.
Read MoreKnowledge Organization Systems
I attended the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh. There were quite a few papers and posters I found aligned with taxonomies and the whole area of linked data, semantic implementations and the Dublin Core. The DC-2010 conference, sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI), was held immediately prior to ASIS&T in the same hotel so the over lap in participants and programming was spot on for my interests. The ASIS&T annual meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. It has veered heavily into usability for the last few years and this change back to mainline information science was refreshing!
KMWorld 2010 Coming Soon
The latest addition to the keynote lineup at KMWorld 2010 is Thomas A. Stewart, Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer of Booz & Company and best-selling author. Stewart will share winning strategies for developing and evolving knowledge-driven enterprises that are productive, innovative, and successful. Using real-world examples he will illustrate how those strategies have worked in many different types of organizations.
Read MoreA Leader in Business Intelligence
According to a new October 2010 report from independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc., Oracle is a leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms. BI is defined as a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making.
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Enterprise Search
A Webinar titled “Enterprise Search–Key Driver of Today’s Best Web Experiences” will be presented November 4, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. East Coast time with featured guest, Leslie Owens, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research.
Read MoreStandards Are Top of the List
Lack of standards, applications built without considering data sharing, and a lack of a metadata warehouse all make data integration difficult. What can make it easy, or, at the very least, easier?
Read MoreHealth Information and Semantic Technology
Healthline Networks has rolled out Healthline Navigator, a new Medically Guided™ in-text content navigation and distribution tool for Web publishers and marketers. The new navigation platform is rolling out across many top-tier HealthWeb with the potential to reach over 40 million unique users a month.
Read MoreNew Ontology Partnership
Semantic technology company, Ontotext, and Structured Dynamics have formed a partnership to address some of the key semantic “gaps” in the semantic Web. The partnership will focus on development of the next generation of the UMBEL and PROTON ontologies, as well as tools and applications based on them.
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