Drupal combines their business workflow tools seamlessly with a suite of core modules like of, such as taxonomy and roles. Their tutorial helps users learn how to create a corporate collaborative authoring system without having to resort to writing PHP code.
With Apple's Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to argue that the semantic web is any longer a pipe dream. Yet, there are those that are doing just that.
Purchasing isn’t easy in any business, but for information technology professionals, the endless variations of the same product and dissimilar ways to describe the products, it can be a real challenge.
Baseball and biology are not commonly found in the same conceptual space. Neither do you find taxonomy associated with baseball, but in recent news these connections were made. Grant Bisbee, editor of “Baseball Nation”, digresses into the arcane as he laments the coming of the “He’s In the Best Shape of His Life” season. This is the time of year baseball writers must assess the prospects for the coming season, and clichés and hyperbole reign. The dubious practice of evaluating the physical condition of players runs rampant as spring training begins. With tongue in cheek, Bisbee tries to shape a taxonomy to classify this spring ritual. His would be the taxonomy of the “In the Best-shape Stories”.
The Forrester Wave report classified OpenText and Autonomy as leaders for their strong, enterprise-class solutions.
Healthline Networks has released their Healthline Consumer Engagement Platform. This suite of technology and content services offers rich personalization capabilities.
While watching the end of a movie last night to see where exactly it was filmed, I paid attention to the credits. Coming from a publishing perspective, I tried matching what they list to what we capture about the author, researcher, and creator in a bibliographic citation. What are the matches? The film lists the animation team, the animal handlers, the costume designers, the makeup artists, the photographers, the accounting team, and on and on and on. There are hundreds of people behind the scenes, and they are all listed in the credits. What do we list for a team of 3000 researchers working on a big data project? We cite a few authors with a spare affiliation line and an acknowledgement to the funders. What about the rest of the contributors? Are there others that should be cited?
Metalogix Software has released Content Manager, a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.
Sometimes we stumble across a website that intrigues us and that we want to share with you. This is one of those times. Jeremy Norman’s From Cave Paintings to the Internet – Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media is full of interesting data presented in a way that is close to our hearts. You can search by timeline, by topic, and even by category. The website is arranged so that you can approach the history of information from many different viewpoints.