Posts by Melody Smith
BRICO Ontology Experiment
The BRICO (for “bricolage”, a French word meaning something like “robust but diverse mishmash”) knowledge base is an integration of several distinct knowledge resources in FramerD.
Read MoreStoredIQ 6.0 Available Now
A new application from StoredIQ Inc. is directly aimed at corporate level counsel to enhance the ability of legal discovery requirements.
Read MoreOpen Semantic Framework Debuts in Citizen Dan
Citizen Dan is an open source system for local governments and organizations to publish and visualize community data and content.
Read MoreBeijing Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources
OntoLex workshop, scheduled for August 21-22, 2010 in Beijing, is designed to address lexicographers, researchers, ontologists and practitioners.
Read MoreIs The World Headed Towards More Digitization?
As more and more information heads out in the World Wide Web, the problem of how to safely store it and where to put it all comes to mind.
Read MoreTwitter Has Become a Powerful File Sharing Tool
Torrent Tweet organizes discussions surrounding individual topics, making it a major indexing player.
Read MoreAsk.com is Putting a Face On Answers
During a time when it seems everyone is trying to automate every process possible, Ask.com is human-answering the majority of its questions with a real live community.
Read MoreData Management and Storage Via an Index Engine
In a business of any type, the daily information coming and going is more than one realizes. Even if safely stored, if it cannot be easily recovered for review, then the business is highly at risk.
Read MoreMetadata Provides Value Paper Books Just Can’t Match
Exclusive eBook deals bypassing the publisher may become the rule which may result in some books you want simply not being available for the hardware you have.
Read MoreStandards: Straightjacket or Straight Edge?
Standards were not popular with would-be railroad tycoons in the 1880s. A standard set of railroad tracks eliminated some profitable loading and unloading work. Incompatible tracks kept the other guys’ rolling stock on another guy’s tracks. Eventually standards emerged because a couple of tycoons figured out how to make even more money by standardizing. Many industries go through this wide open approach only to find that over time certain methods or designs become part of the furniture of living.
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