A new and entertaining use of semantic technology, Nanocrowd, is an app for the iPad that helps you find a new movie to watch. However, rather than collect your viewing history and evaluations of previous flicks, Nanocrowd starts with one movie and learns what it is about that film that you find interesting and then seeks to find films with similar attributes. This kind of sounds like a dating service for movie buffs.
The Eighth Annual Data Harmony® Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled Feb. 7-9, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico will focus on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which helps users organize information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.
The Third International Workshop on the role of the Semantic Web in Provenance Management will be held in conjunction with the Ninth Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-2012) on May 27-28, 2012 in Heraklion, Greece.
Experian has acquired UK-based web monitoring firm Garlik, which was established in 2005 and creates semantic web technologies such as DataPatrol.
TEMIS has landed a new contract in STM publishing with S. Karger AG to provide the scientific community with next-generation navigation features within its information portal. Using Luxid® for Content Enrichment and their semantically-enhanced metadata, Karger will be able to increase the relevance of the search results available on its portal with features such as faceted searching and related document linking.
Sharepoint is a popular software and comes free with the MicroSoft Server. In fact, I think Sharepoint, more than any other thing, has excited interest in taxonomies for people. Sharepoint 2010 has a taxonomy module and although it doesn’t have everything that your heart might wish for, it is a significant step forward. A lot of people have been trying to figure out exactly how to best use their taxonomy within the Sharepoint offering. This is one option.
The BBC Weather website has been relaunched after a public beta. The new site is on a three-tier architecture and this move was part of the BBC's wider strategy to move to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to increase cross-product interoperability and data reuse.
A completely different kind of use is term analytics. We have talked a lot of text analytics in the past, where people take great big full text files and they run them through a lot of Bayesian, neural net, and latent semantic indexing kind of engines to figure out how to compare things. You could do that using a taxonomy instead and still figure out the strengths of the organization; what are the strengths in the publications; what are the emerging topics in your areas. You use people’s own data to address these questions and figure out the answers.
We’ve talked numerous times about how technology has changed the way we communicate and interact both in our professional and personal lives. So what does the future look like? How will this same technology evolve and what will be the results of that progress on our lives? The Media Communications panel at the 3rd edition of the World Forum in Davos, Switzerland, “Communication on Top”, will be addressing those questions and more.
The semantic web is being used to compete with internet health sites in helping users manage their health. Healthline is one of many websites people turn to for health information. It isn’t the largest, when compared to WebMD and others, but it does set itself apart by focusing on a semantic taxonomy.