Theory of Knowledge: The Age of Enlightenment
The 17th century ushered in some new ways of thinking about knowledge. One of the 17th-century philosophers who studied the nature of knowledge (among many other things) was René Descartes (1596-1650), who concerned himself with the nature of knowledge (among many other things).
Read MoreSeeking Findability
As a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Silwood Technology Limited was thrilled to announce they achieved Oracle Validated Integration of Safyr version 6.0 with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1.
Read MoreSolutions for SharePoint
SharePoint Solutions offers a solution for an often requested and needed connection between its Business Connectivity Services and the SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata feature.
Read MoreMilitary is Addressing Big Data
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.
Read MoreMonster Uses Semantic Technology To Improve Connectivity
The familiar job opportunity site, Monster, recently announced that the company’s 6Sense® semantic search technology which is behind Power Resume Search™, is now available in the Netherlands. This means recruiters in seven countries can now quickly and precisely find and target candidates who best meet their hiring needs.
The team at Monster worked on the 6Sense knowledge base for over two years prior to launch of the beta phase, which included extensive testing and feedback from a variety of clients and searches.
Read MoreFollowing the Trends
A group of enterprise architecture experts recently gathered to discuss big data, cloud computing and storage, and how these work best with overall information architecture. This interesting topic was brought to our attention by ZDNet in their article, “Complexity from big data and cloud trends makes architecture tools more powerful.” Simultaneous and complex trends, such…
Read MoreIndexing Next Door
Indexing is important regardless of the content, type, volume or location. That was made even clearer to me when I found this article about a small county courthouse indexing their documents into digital archives for safety in lieu of disasters or identity fraud. Of course we are all for digitizing content for ease in findability as well, but when I realized this article, which I found on Google News, was about a small town just a few miles from my hometown. In fact, my sister lives in this particular town.
Read MoreTypography as a Science
Like many people, I have varied interests in my life, both professionally and personally. Graphics, design and typography crosses the lines into both of those worlds. So when I found this interesting diagram on Flickr, it piqued my interest and I thought I would share it with you.
Read MoreSolutions for Big Data
Human beings supposedly produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, according to IBM. Adding to that bit of trivia, 90 percent of the data in the world today was created in the past two years. The result is why we have the challenge of “big data” today. Enormous data sets that most relational database management systems (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) find difficult to process. “Ontologies for Information Integration” (OI2), an April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo, will address this challenge and offer some non-traditional solutions.
Read MoreSemantic Solutions
Ontology Systems has recently launched two semantic search solutions targeted for the financial services industry. In addition, they have announced the appointment of Andrea Harding to lead adoption of the solutions by financial services providers.
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