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Not Too Late for Nominations
World Standards Week (WSW) shines a light on those who have made significant contributions to their industry, their nation, and the enhancement of the global standards system. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has issued a call for nominations for its 2013 Leadership and Service Awards, which will be presented in conjunction with WSW. The awards, presented in conjunction with World Standards Week (WSW) 2013.
Read MoreIs the Semantic Web Changing to Accommodate Big Data?
Web 3.0 is often quoted as the semantic web and the next phase of the Internet. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) seeks to convert the current web of unstructured and semi-structured data into a web of data, where it will be possible to easily share and re-use data across application, community and enterprise boundaries.
Read MoreUsing the Data for Good
It is the topic of the day – data mining. Who is doing it, why are they doing it, and why should we care?
Read MoreNew Software as a Service Platform
Be Informed and CACI have come together to launch a new government software as a service (SaaS) platform. The platform was announced recently at the SemTechBiz Conference.
Read MoreSemantic Use in Social World
Intelligent search delivers results based on users’ social media activity. Veveo has been awarded four new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to improve search experiences in the context of current usability trends around social, device based universal search, or semantic and intelligent searching capabilities. This interesting topic was found on TV Technology in their article, “Veveo Adds Four Patents for Semantic Technologies Advancing Usability in Connected Devices.”
Read MoreSemantic Technologies Achieve Findability
Elsevier has announced an investment in a new online platform and management system for its 500+ health, medical and life sciences journal-branded custom websites. The new online platform will provide improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial tool to create topical article collections, and an improved reading experience for visitors using mobile devices.
Read MoreThe Pioneers of the Internet Warn
Vinton Cerf is considered one of the geniuses, or computer scientists, who turned on the Internet in 1983. Imagine the amount of data created since that time and you wouldn’t think much would be lost or unreachable in the future. But he disagrees. Cerf warned that digital things created today — spreadsheets, documents, presentations as well as mountains of scientific data — won’t be readable in the years and centuries ahead.
Read MoreAnticipating the Future
In a world that is moving so fast technology-wise, it is impossible to predict what will be needed or used in a decade, score, or even a year. People and organizations employ new technologies in creative and unanticipated ways. Unexpected developments often give new technologies their greatest value.
Read MoreSemantic Approaches to Cloud Management
fluid Operations showcased their latest semantic approach to cloud infrastructure management, eCloudManager, at the SemTechBiz 2013 in San Francisco this week.
Read MoreSharePoint Integration Can Enhance Usability
TEMIS has launched an integration of the company’s Content Enrichment Platform into SharePoint 2013, This will provide the ability to automatically extract relevant topics, entities, facts, sentiments, or categories from documents and generate rich metadata.
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