Online Community Attracts Technology Stars
Informatica Corporation, provider of data integration software, shares a growing momentum for the Informatica Marketplace – an online community that connects vendors, partners and individual developers to enable them to share data integration solutions within an open and comprehensive ecosystem of more than 120,000 active users.
Read MoreUPS, First DAMMY Award Recipient
Developer of solutions for digital media management, ViewCast Corporation, announced that UPS’s Communications Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, powered by ViewCast Media Platform Digital Asset Management software, was the recent recipient of a 2010 DAMMY Award in the category of Best Storage, Archive and/or Preservation Solution.
Read MoreOracle Purchases ATG
Oracle has acquired Art Technology Group, smoothing the path into e-commerce. Art Technology is one of the leading providers of e-commerce software and this deal is expected to close by early 2011.
Read MoreXBRL US Gets New CEO
The national consortium for XML business reporting standards, XBRL US, has announced that Campbell Pryde, the current Chief Standards Officer and head of development, has been named President and CEO.
Read MoreSnug Without An Ontology
With a slogan like “Snug Productivity Software”, Tabi Software’s SlipBox application supports the work of the note-taker and not surprisingly attempts to do it distraction-free. SlipBox is based on traditional slip-boxes – loose collections of paper slips in a box – and manages the notes in a way similar to human memory.
Read MoreLaunch Event for New Metadata Management Solution
OMNILINK has released a new version of its spatial metadata management solution, Omniscient, which makes searching and cataloging spatial data easier for organizations.
Read MorePPC Chosen by National Archives and Records Administration
Project Performance Corporation (PPC) has been awarded a contract by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to support modernization of the Archival Description and Authority Services. PPC will provide expertise in the areas of Application Architecture and Development, Service Oriented Architecture, Taxonomy and Search, Data Management and Modeling, Program and Project Management, and Quality Control.
Read MoreGEOINT Symposium Adds Federal Consultant to Speaker List
Federal Consultant Gary Katz will present at the GEOINT Symposium in New Orleans, L.A. on Thursday, November 3, 2010. The session, “XML Approaches to Facilitating Interoperability, Fusion, and Analysis of GOSINT Metadata Formats,” will include a demonstration of content from multiple sources being fused and analyzed by a Geospatial Open Source Intelligence (GOSINT) application. Gary Katz is a Federal Consultant at MarkLogic Corporation with expertise in text mining, analytics and semantic technologies.
Read MoreAnother Semantic Technology Release
Newly released Sophia Search, a new solution that uses a semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be efficiently recovered, consolidated and leveraged, delivers a three-dimensional solution.
Read MoreKnowledge Organization Systems
I attended the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh. There were quite a few papers and posters I found aligned with taxonomies and the whole area of linked data, semantic implementations and the Dublin Core. The DC-2010 conference, sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI), was held immediately prior to ASIS&T in the same hotel so the over lap in participants and programming was spot on for my interests. The ASIS&T annual meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. It has veered heavily into usability for the last few years and this change back to mainline information science was refreshing!