Business Intelligence Comes in Many Forms

By |September 23rd, 2011|Business Intelligence, News, ontology, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Business Intelligence Comes in Many Forms

Business intelligence (BI) has proved valuable for providing insights to companies, allowing them to make better business decisions. It isn’t a new concept; BI has been around for many years. But with the changes and advancements in technology, more and more organizations are looking to the BI trends for direction.

US Army & AI

By |September 13th, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on US Army & AI

Ariston Consulting and ai-one has formed a strategic partnership that will provide the US Army's Electronic Proving Grounds with machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed (C5ISR) systems.

Ontology Work Completed for Semantics Repository

By |September 9th, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Ontology Work Completed for Semantics Repository

The EDM Council has completed the ontology work necessary to add corporate actions to its Semantics Repository, and now plans to work with the Object Management Group (OMG) to make the repository an ontology standard.

DoD Seeks Common Ontology

By |September 2nd, 2011|News, ontology|Comments Off on DoD Seeks Common Ontology

ARINC Engineering Services, LLC sent three recognized experts in U.S. Department of Defense supply chain management to provide instruction and chair several sessions at the 2011 DMSMS & Standardization Conference this week.

Data Harmonization in Cancer Research

By |August 25th, 2011|News, ontology|Comments Off on Data Harmonization in Cancer Research

SAIC-Frederick Inc. and RemedyMD are merging efforts to implement RemedyMD’s Investigate Integrated Research Management System software at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Advanced Technology Program. NCI researchers will be abel to manage and analyze large amounts of research data for a very worthy cause.

Like Semantics on Crack

By |August 3rd, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Like Semantics on Crack

Analytics provider, Quid, continues to raise funding and add interested parties to their board of advisors. Their visual representations of data has interested many organizations, the most recent, PayPal.

Ontologies and Semantic Networks

By |July 25th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Ontologies and Semantic Networks

As knowledge organization systems increase in complexity, we have increasing numbers of dimensions or features or ways to define the terms. Semantic networks help with bringing all those concepts together and tagging them so that you can look at them in lots of different ways.

From Simple to Complex

By |June 20th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, ontology, Standards, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on From Simple to Complex

People talk about different kinds of vocabularies. The differences usually have to do with the structure, or lack thereof. Sometimes, people refer to “flat lists”. These are one-level lists with no hierarchical structure. They can be uncontrolled or controlled lists. An uncontrolled list is a simple, flat structure. The uncontrolled list is your “Saturday list”.