We have all felt the anxiety behind ordering the appropriate wine with your meal. The waiter looks on impatiently as you struggle mentally with what sounds good to drink versus what fits into the “red meat/red wine and white meat/white wine” limited wine knowledge bank you possess. Never fear, semantic web technology is here to rescue you from embarrassment.
HowHow can a business set up an e-commerce platform that effectively utilizes taxonomies to contribute to its bottom line? In the third of a four-part webinar series co-hosted by Access and the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ), Jay Ven Eman will use a case-study approach to guide participants on how to effectively utilize taxonomies for web delivery, web search and even store layout.
With the rise of computers and high-throughput data collection, ontologies have become essential to data mining and sharing across communities in the biomedical sciences. Powerful approaches exist for testing the internal consistency of an ontology, but not for assessing the fidelity of its domain representation; until now.
Classification and Ontology is the third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium) and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands).
OMG has announced that longtime OMG participant and Chair of OMG's Business Modeling and Integration Task Force, Fred Cummins has been named as an expert participant on the Process Knowledge Initiative Technical Team.
The first issue of the Semantic Web journal has been published and the online version of the journal is freely accessible.
Rumor has it the Open Group’s SOA Work Group intends the new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Ontology Technical Standard to be a semantic foundation for SOA terms and concepts.
The U.S. Navy believes the semantic Web will connect data in new ways and lay the foundation for further advances in their world. Their objective is to manage a global network that delivers instant integration of military data across a number of separate specializations such as geographic, intelligence, logistics and manpower, as well as provide information about red or blue forces. The semantic Web will be the engine needed to power the effort.