Three New Search Applications From NextBio
Knowledge locked within public and proprietary data will now be easier to share thanks to a new platform called Elsevier SciVerse. NextBio, the provider, has touted this as an innovative new platform that integrates Elsevier’s key products and encourages those in the scientific community to share and collaborate on the development search and discovery applications.
Read MorePreventing Duplication of Content
Identifying on-site content duplication when you have thousands of pages on your site is not a walk in the park. It isn’t just copy you need to be concerned with, title elements and metatagging should be considered as well.
Read MoreInformation Overload – Too Much Of A Good Thing?
Everyone has seen the commercial on television. Someone asks a simple question, and then everyone in the crowd starts spewing forth all these facts that have been found via the Internet. This makes for some very clever and funny advertising, but let’s face it. Information overload is a real problem.
Read MoreNeed High Rankings? Watch Your Use of Keywords
Meta tags have been around since the beginning of this thing we call the Internet. We all know how it works, write an article promoting a business, product, etc. and if the just right amount of keywords are sprinkled throughout, kaboom your page has a high ranking. The higher the better, but there is a fine line.
Read MoreClassified Homeland Security: Transforming Data into Information
October 11, 2010 – You’ve just read the title and already there is trouble. “Classified” has multiple uses. What is meant here? When discussing homeland security, one might conclude that the security level of documents is under discussion. Assigning security levels to documents provides security classifications. Organizing a plant or an animal into a unique…
Read MoreStudents Benefit from Integrity
Integrity Consulting has partnered with the University of Maryland’s QUEST program. Together with QUEST, Integrity is building a social media platform that will provide a community of collaboration and communication for Emergency Management and Homeland Security professionals.
Read MoreThe Semantic Web in Specific Enterprise Technologies
IE as in Information Extraction, not the other one, is defined in the book Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems, John Davies, Rudi Studer, and Paul Warren define this type of IE as “a technology based on analyzing natural language in order to extract snippets of information.”
Read More10gen Conference Focused on NoSQL
10gen is dedicated an entire day event to the high-performance “NoSQL” document-oriented database. If 10gen sounds familiar, they are the company behind the open source MongoDB project. This is the tenth conference 10gen has organized on MongoDB, and will be the largest MongoDB event of the year.
Read MoreCrowdsortium Goes Public
A group of leading crowdsourcing companies has joined forces to create a trade organization the Crowdsortium, to serve as a resource to crowdsourcing funders, practitioners, customers, researchers and eventually the crowd themselves. This goal is accomplished through best practices, education, data collection, advocacy and public dialogue.
Read MoreAre Computers Any Match For Human Intelligence?
Computer’s biggest challenge is unraveling semantics, understanding the meaning of language. Beyond the actual definition, context impacts everything. A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has been working since the beginning of the year on fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human.
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