ontology
World Wide Wine?
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.
Read MoreSetting Up the Store: Taxonomies in E-Commerce
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.
Read MoreOntologies In Two Worlds
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.
Read MoreCall for Classification and Ontology Papers
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).
Read MoreCummins Appointed to Process Knowledge Initiative Team
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.
Read MoreTaxonomy’s Third Wave
I’ve heard it mentioned several times recently that “Taxonomies are hot again,” which leads to a couple of questions, namely, What is causing this renewed popularity? and, Why did they ever stop being “hot?”
Read MoreThe Semantic Web Journal Released
The first issue of the Semantic Web journal has been published and the online version of the journal is freely accessible.
Read MoreAdopting Standards Takes Time, Unfortunately
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.
Read MoreU.S. Navy Swimming in the Semantic Sea
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.
Read MoreHow Findable is Your Information?
The time which we spend looking for information is time taken away from other important tasks. Collecting information so that it is “findable” is beyond technology, beyond search; it is an understanding of how technology collects and indexes content to produce the right results.
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