Chorus Released by EMC
EMC’s Greenplum division has announced it will open source its Chorus management and collaboration tools. EMC has recently acquired Pivotal Labs to help it […]
Thoughts on ORCID
A new and powerful tool is headed our way. I believe it has the potential to change the way we interact with researchers, contributors and authors in general. I have already reported on the Contributor ID meeting in Boston mid-May. One of the main reasons for the timing of that meeting was the ORCID Outreach meeting to be held at the Microsoft office next to MIT in Cambridge. The aim of ORCID is to "solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents."
Integrating Data With Semantics
Semantic data integration and knowledge management software, Sentient Knowledge Explorer 4.0, address data for life sciences and healthcare. A simplified workflow makes it possible for users to integrate data more efficiently by making it easier to complete common integration tasks and interrogate multi-faceted data.