By Melody Smith|December 31st, 20132013-12-30T21:40:57-05:00
Apple recently purchased Topsy, a social media analytics company. This move left some folks wondering why. For some, the answer was clear - search, old search to be exact. In a move to challenge Google's reign as the premier search engine, Apple's $200 million dollar purchase is intended to provide new levels of recommendations based on Topsy's data. Don't scoff at the price, there are billions of dollar in play when you are talking about the game of search.
By Melody Smith|December 30th, 20132013-12-29T19:27:15-05:00
As taxonomists, we have a responsibility to discern those future concepts, although they may still be invisible to most. We can save the various expressions of those concepts in search logs from being rejected from consideration for a vocabulary simply on account of their as yet infrequent appearance. In a taxonomy or thesaurus, we can provide labels that will consolidate the indexing for a concept whose researchers have not yet settled on a name. In some cases, especially with widely used vocabularies, we can perhaps determine the name by which a concept will be known on a standard basis.
By Melody Smith|December 30th, 20132013-12-29T19:23:06-05:00
Floating around the Milky Way galaxy is the most recent space observatory launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). Gaia will monitor each of its target stars about 70 times over a period of five years - all unmanned.
By Melody Smith|December 27th, 20132013-12-26T21:46:25-05:00
Records management now and in the future will have to be a priority if we want to effectively manage and find our data. Many use SharePoint to achieve this goal. Migrating data for implementation can be a challenge, but from a content management point of view, metadata is the key. CMS Wire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Metadata Solves Your SharePoint Content Management Problems.”
By Melody Smith|December 27th, 20132013-12-26T21:45:00-05:00
SemantiStar has launched Epsilon, the first semantically enabled eLearning application for iPad. This new product is designed to connect learners contextually with course material and real-world knowledge and events. This interesting news was brought to our attention by gnom.es in their article, “SemantiStar, Inc. Announces the Launch of Epsilon.”
By Melody Smith|December 26th, 20132013-12-25T22:46:34-05:00
Big Data Spain is an event about massive data processing applications and technologies that took place this November in Madrid. The event drove home the point that increasingly critical applications of big data in sectors such as banking and telecommunications and some new technological and business trends need systems that facilitate online analysis of large volumes of data. In addition, one of the key areas of big data application is the processing of social content to obtain all types of insights.
By Melody Smith|December 26th, 20132013-12-25T22:41:56-05:00
Budget cuts, both domestic and governmental, manage to touch every part of our lives at one time or another. Yesterday, the United States government shut down all non-critical services due to the inability to settle on a budget. No real surprise there, as they haven’t been able to agree on anything since, well, ever. Interestingly, this article from earlier in the year in The New York Times, “As Works Flood In, Nation’s Library Treads Water“, lifts up challenges from the federal cuts for the current fiscal year.
By Melody Smith|December 25th, 20132013-12-24T18:27:30-05:00
ADmantX has announced that ADmantX semantic features are now live on Adform, whose customers will automatically be able to access the ADmantX rich set of semantic data to improve their campaign success. This interesting information was found on Technology-Digital in their article, “Adform and ADmantX Partner to Deliver Advanced Brand Safety and Contextual Targeting Within Adform’s DSP.”
By Melody Smith|December 24th, 20132013-12-23T22:34:30-05:00
Professor Deborah L. McGuinness has been selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). McGuinness is a web scientist, which is what AAAS cites as the reason for her recognition. Her contributions to the Semantic Web, knowledge representation, and reasoning environments will be part of the honor ceremony at its annual meeting in February 2014 in Chicago.
By Melody Smith|December 24th, 20132013-12-23T22:33:03-05:00
At last. I searched and searched and was starting to lose faith, but never fear, a Christmas-themed taxonomy I have found. If you are a Hallmark movie watching fan, this might not be news to you and you might even be the slightest bit insulted, but just a tiny bit.
