ontology
SlipBox Thinks Outside of the Box
Intentionally avoiding the use of a keyword ontology, SlipBox is based on traditional slip boxes and manages the notes in a similar manner as the human memory.When taking notes, SlipBox actively discourages the use of categories like they are required by most note-taking applications and just focuses on tags.
Read MoreTripbase Takes Travel Planning to Another Level
A new travel database, Tripbase, has taken artificial intelligence into the world of travel planning and beyond. Travel planning isn’t like shopping where you can download a product catalog. People want to know more details about their location, whether it be the color of the sand on the beaches or the local etiquette de jour.
Read MoreIt’s All in the Facts
AdSense creator, Gil Elbaz, scores big with another software tool called Factual. Beginning service to the public in October, Factual organizes bits of useful data strewn across the Internet. Every day, names, numbers, dates, addresses, and other unstructured data are added to the Web. Since it doesn’t follow any standard formatting, this data is useless to most computers. Machines can’t readily grasp concepts such as “middle school” or “junior high,” let alone distinguish how they’re related…at least until now.
Read MoreInformation Collaboration
Who would have ever guessed the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) would become a role model for information sharing? However, a service-oriented architecture effort within the U.S. Department of Defense’s intelligence community is helping the DoD better share information as well as modernize systems.
Read MoreSnug Without An Ontology
With a slogan like “Snug Productivity Software”, Tabi Software’s SlipBox application supports the work of the note-taker and not surprisingly attempts to do it distraction-free. SlipBox is based on traditional slip-boxes – loose collections of paper slips in a box – and manages the notes in a way similar to human memory.
Read MoreAnother Semantic Technology Release
Newly released Sophia Search, a new solution that uses a semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be efficiently recovered, consolidated and leveraged, delivers a three-dimensional solution.
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Enterprise Search
A Webinar titled “Enterprise Search–Key Driver of Today’s Best Web Experiences” will be presented November 4, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. East Coast time with featured guest, Leslie Owens, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research.
Read MoreNew Ontology Partnership
Semantic technology company, Ontotext, and Structured Dynamics have formed a partnership to address some of the key semantic “gaps” in the semantic Web. The partnership will focus on development of the next generation of the UMBEL and PROTON ontologies, as well as tools and applications based on them.
Read MoreIt’s All Semantics
Mondeca, provider of semantic technologies, is launching two software products that improve the way enterprises manage content annotation and rich knowledge structures, such as ontologies, thesauri, taxonomies, terminologies, metadata repositories, knowledge bases, and Linked Open Data. Whew, that was a mouthful.
Read MoreMedical Care Capitalizes on Ontologies
Solid ontologies are important in every use, however when dealing with medical records and medical care, it takes on a whole new level of importance. Project HealthDesign is a good example. It is a project that capitalizes on advancements in information technology to investigate how soliciting patients’ observations of daily living could improve care for chronic illnesses.
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