May 2013

Semantic Technology for Advertisers

By |May 31st, 2013

Vertical Search Works (VSW) utilizes both human and machine intelligence to reach their objectives for advertisers, agencies, and publishers. VSW's Security Integrity Process (SIP) can seriously reduce the risk of ad fraud and malware.

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Semantic Chat

By |May 31st, 2013

Military intelligence is teaming up with the science and experts of ontology to understand the challenges and solutions for storing big data. An April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo (UB) will explore this big data conundrum, as well as related topics.

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Predictability is Not a Bad Thing

By |May 30th, 2013

We know that building a taxonomy is not easy. It requires research, building of terms, identifying criteria, and the list goes on and on. And we all know that it doesn’t always go smoothly and in predictable order.

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Comprehensive Findability

By |May 30th, 2013

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has chosen TEMIS’s Luxid Platform to enhance its scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly (STMS) content. The result will be search and discovery tools providing professional and academic researchers faster and better findability.

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New Partnership in Data Management

By |May 29th, 2013

Semantic Web Company (SWC) and OpenLink Integration Business Partner Program have joined together, making Virtuoso an important part of SWC's products and services.

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The Power of Semantics

By |May 29th, 2013

It is no secret that Yahoo has purchased the microblogging site, Tumblr. However, it seems confusing to some as to why a small player in the world of search (and getting smaller), invested over a billion dollars in something that has no solid business model. The answer is semantics.

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Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group: Call for Papers

By |May 29th, 2013

The Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting has been scheduled for February 10-14, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You are cordially invited to join us for this milestone meeting.

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Internet of Things Forum Continues Planning

By |May 28th, 2013

Three more impressive names have been added to the roster for the BLN Internet of Things Forum 2013 (BLN IoT13) scheduled for June 27, 2013. Dr. John Davies, Head of Semantic Technology at BT, Stan Boland, CEO of Neul, and lastly Cees Link, CEO of GreenPeak Technologies.

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Legislation Could Impact ICD-10

By |May 28th, 2013

After years of planning and complaining, healthcare organizations are beyond knee-deep in preparing for the ICD-10 coding classification transition due by October 1, 2014. Ironically, there is now legislation introduced in the U.S. House would prohibit the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) from mandating that physicians use ICD-10 diagnosis codes.

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Points of Knowledge

By |May 27th, 2013

To deal with a large body of knowledge, we need to localize and organize it somehow. Where that knowledge is located, or where and how it is organized, or the system by which it is identified and perhaps indexed, might be called the points of knowledge. And certainly, databases connected to and/or indexed with knowledge organization systems represent points of knowledge.

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