Dell Is Buying Clouds
Dell has agreed to buy medical archive services company, InSite One Inc. The company offers cloud-based health-care applications that archive medical records and share images.
Read MoreTravel Industry Meets Semantic Technology
Managing content on a typical destination marketing organization’s website is very competitive, almost as competitive as servicing the customers.
Read MoreAchieving Clarity Ranks as Tops Priority
As the financial institutions enter 2011 and look at the emerging regulatory requirements this new era brings with it, what role will information technology play in these converging technological environments?
Read MoreNew Vocabularies Added to Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies
In an announcement from the Library of Congress, they share their pleasure in making available new vocabularies from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service, which provides access to Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as Linked Data. The Authorities and Vocabularies web service was first made available in May 2009 and offered the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Library’s initial entry into the Linked Data movement.
Read MoreSaaS-Based Corporate Action Events Minimize Costs
The concept of SaaS clouds has gained significance with services being hosted in a common cloud environment within the enterprise or outside the enterprise.
Read MoreNew Partnership Shares Metadata Globally
FiledBy, Inc. is the comprehensive online directory of author listings and websites and they have announced a reciprocal author and book metadata sharing agreement with Ingram Content Group Inc.
Read MoreASI 2011 Conference Scheduled for April 28-30
The 2011 annual conference for the American Society for Indexing (ASI), “Providential Transformation,” will take place in Providence, Rhode Island from April 28-30. You do not need to be a member of ASI to attend.
Read MoreHuge Challenge/Opportunity for Semantic Technology
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth – from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions. The Living Earth Simulator (LES) aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.
Read MoreKM Award Winners Announced
The winners of the KM Promise and the KM Reality awards were announced in November at the 2010 KMWorld Conference in Washington, D.C.
Read More10 Reasons To Resolve To Create A Taxonomy For Your Business In 2011
Just in time for New Year’s, we have compiled a list of 10 reasons for companies to resolve to create a taxonomy for their business in 2011. Because many businesses are unsure about how a taxonomy could benefit them, we believe offering some actual examples will be useful.
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