Blogging Terms Make it to the Big Time
The Oxford Dictionary has added various digital terms, including “bloggable” to their infamous resource.
Read MoreJava is Looking at the Clouds
The next enterprise edition of Java is progressing at Oracle, who is reported to be considering improvements for cloud computing, REST Web services, and other capabilities.
Read MoreThree Webinars on Metadata and Standards
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) have announced they will be continuing their educational partnership in 2011 with three joint webinars on topics related to metadata, linked data, and RDA vocabularies.
Read MoreSemantic and Search – Match Made in Heaven?
Expert System and Vejo Park have announced a collaboration with the Crisis Unit for Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the development of a software platform for the identification and real-time selection of important information from the Web. The result of that collaboration between Vejo Park’s G3Docs software and Expert System’s COGITO semantic software.
Read MoreMonster and HotJobs Join Recruiting Resources
Monster.com and HotJobs announce the completion of their integration into one seamless website. The HotJobs site and related data have been migrated onto the Monster platform
Read MoreIEEE Collaborates with Access Innovations, Inc. To Engineer Re-Indexing of Xplore Digital Library
IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has collaborated with Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data and content management industry, to complete a comprehensive re-indexing of approximately 2.1 million of the 2.8 million IEEE article records in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library database.
Read Moree-Commerce Finding Good Results for Semantic Technology
Some retailers are reporting phenomenal sales post holiday-season and many attribute this to semantic technology.
Read MoreIBM Receives Frost & Sullivan Nod
Frost & Sullivan, famed industry analyst, recognized IBM with the 2010 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Company of the Year. It attributes the honor to their focus on business analytics and corporate vision.
Read MoreTaxonomies and Social Media
Any discussion of online media today cannot ignore the elephant in the room that is social media. Facebook will reach 700 Million Users by the end of 2011, according to Ted Shelton of Open-First. If anyone had any doubts about the revolutionary power of social media in general and Facebook in particular, those doubts have certainly been swept away by recent events in the Middle East. Not least among the many disruptions caused by social media is the way it has changed how people search, discover, and use content. Significantly, this impact is not limited to people’s personal lives, because social media is increasingly being used by businesses and institutions. Agencies and corporate marketers are scrambling to come up with ways to control messaging across the over 900 million “Tweets” generated by Twitter users every month, but these one-to-many and many-to-many communications (via “re-tweets”) have revolutionized the way business is conducted. Content professionals, and especially those in Knowledge Management and Enterprise Content Management, are beginning to ask what role we should be playing in this unfolding trend.
Read MoreIs Semantic Technology Worth the Hassle?
Semantic technology can not only help companies save time and money, it helps them become more efficient, productive and engaged with their information, and ultimately their clients.
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