Ontology Competition
Rearden Commerce has announced its sponsorship of a category of The World Championship for Automated Theorem Proving (ATP), Large Theory division. The competition showcases the latest advancements in logical reasoning.
April 2011
March 2011
New Partnership Brings Content Management and Social Software Together
By Melody Smith|March 31st, 20112011-03-31T11:50:06-04:00
Alfresco has joined forces with Jive Software to bring content management into social software’s neighborhood.
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Workshop on Semantics and Services
By Melody Smith|March 31st, 20112011-03-31T11:49:05-04:00
Atwood Technology is hosting the third Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services (AWoSS3) at its headquarters in Miramichi, New Brunswick, on May 18, 2011.
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Frankfurt Conference Addresses Artificial Intelligence
By Melody Smith|March 30th, 20112011-03-29T17:37:52-04:00
Artificial intelligence is the topic of a conference in Frankfurt, Germany scheduled for August 15-20, 2011. AICOL (AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems) 2011 is set to further develop models of legal knowledge, concerning its organization, structure and content, in order to promote mutual understanding and communication between different legal systems and cultures.
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The Power of Data
By Melody Smith|March 30th, 20112011-03-29T17:36:35-04:00
At least weekly, we read a new article about the volume of data being created around the world. The increase of metadata has dramatically grown and the vehicles delivering it continue to multiply. To put numbers to the adjectives, Wal-Mart now handles more than one million customer transactions every hour and Facebook is reportedly home to some 40 billion photos.
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NASA Hosting Open Source Summit 2011
By Melody Smith|March 30th, 20112011-03-29T17:35:04-04:00
As we write, NASA is hosting its first-ever summit around open source technology. This obvious support of the open source community is being held at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The two-day Open Source Summit 2011 will gather engineers, policy makers, and members of the open source community to discuss how the agency can become a larger player in this sector.
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The Importance of Linked Data
By Melody Smith|March 29th, 20112011-03-28T19:40:31-04:00
In its purest form, linked data can be found at the research desk in any library. Access to sources and pertinent information connected to but beyond your initial inquiry, can make your results more inclusive and dynamic.
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Taiwan’s Think Tank Working in the Clouds
By Melody Smith|March 29th, 20112011-03-28T19:37:20-04:00
Taiwan GIS Centre -- the country’s “think tank” -- is developing a web-based spatial decision support system on the Government Cloud, which would enable the central and local government, private industries, and the general public to access spatial information through various medium.
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OMG and EDM Council Addressing Interoperability Issues
By Melody Smith|March 29th, 20112011-03-28T19:33:38-04:00
OMG and EDM Council are working together to help organizations transform their data into “actionable intelligence” in an effort to support systemic risk assessment and analytics.
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Indexing with Related Terms
By Melody Smith|March 28th, 20112011-03-14T20:02:06-04:00
A Taxonomy is an organization system. It is a controlled vocabulary, containing a parent-child or hierarchical relationship, the specificity happens at the lower levels, at the branches, at the leaflets - or at the end of the list. They are very common on websites. They are also commonly supported as pick lists -- a drop down menu of ten or twelve items. Sometimes they are browsable directories. There are many different ways to put them in play. There are not many standards as yet for taxonomies but there are many standards for thesauri.
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