Standards for the Clouds

The UK government’s national Cloud Computing strategy is soon to be published and many wonder what the decision on industry-wide standards will be. Rumors are they will not be developing new, but adapting to current ones available.

Read More

Conference Focuses on Intelligent Health Information

Healthline Networks is one of the fastest growing providers of intelligent health information services and their president and COO, Dean Stephens, will moderate an mHealth panel at the first HealthTech: Next Generation Conference on August 12. The event takes place at the Hilton San Francisco Airport Bayfront Hotel in Burlingame.

Read More

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”.

Read More

Standards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven

Manually wading through unstructured, textual data archives to find documents to answer questions can be slow and expensive. New SAS Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits recently announced by SAS, improve the time to value from the automatic classification of unstructured, textual data and from text analytics efforts as a whole.

Read More

The Standards of Watson

By now, IBM’s Jeopardy! champion Watson is old news. But the computer technology triumph, capable of understanding human language and broad knowledge topics, may have more to teach us.

Read More

DataFacet for SharePoint Released

WAND has announced the release of DataFacet for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. DataFacet combines an available library of hundreds of pre-built taxonomies with a software add-on that extends the managed metadata feature in SharePoint 2010 and makes it easy for a company to deploy an enterprise taxonomy and document tagging in a SharePoint 2010 environment. PRWeb brought…

Read More

Standardization of APIs

The API has become been the primary method of integration within IT circles. When SOA was at its peak, the focus was properly on the abstraction of business functions at the API level, to provide for reuse and consistency of process across applications. However with the focus of cloud APIs and infrastructure APIS on interoperability, it is difficult to get agreement between vendors on which functions make up a common base.

Read More