With the term "ontology" being heard more often in data management forums and discussions, it is no surprise to see it as the topic of Malcolm Chisholm’s latest post on Expert Channel. Despite the frequency of the term’s use, it is not easy to find out precisely what it means and what significance it might have for the data management community. Is it just a buzzword for marketing purposes or is it real?
iProgrammer reviews the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch & Sebastian Rudolph. The reviewer points out that the book is an academic book and though very approachable, will deliver what you would expect from an academic book.
Hadoop began as a tool for indexing Web pages, now the open source framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.
Knowledge locked within public and proprietary data will now be easier to share thanks to a new platform called Elsevier SciVerse. NextBio, the provider, has touted this as an innovative new platform that integrates Elsevier's key products and encourages those in the scientific community to share and collaborate on the development search and discovery applications.
Everyone has seen the commercial on television. Someone asks a simple question, and then everyone in the crowd starts spewing forth all these facts that have been found via the Internet. This makes for some very clever and funny advertising, but let’s face it. Information overload is a real problem.
October 11, 2010 – You’ve just read the title and already there is trouble. “Classified” has multiple uses. What is meant here? When discussing […]
Integrity Consulting has partnered with the University of Maryland’s QUEST program. Together with QUEST, Integrity is building a social media platform that will provide a community of collaboration and communication for Emergency Management and Homeland Security professionals.