A group from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is testing the use of bioinformatics and other technologies to better understand how cells function. They are doing this with the use of ontologies.
Enterprise metadata can be messy, and many organizations choose to ignore it - sort of a Scarlett O'Hara mentality of “I'll deal with it tomorrow.” The real angst stems from having no metaprocess information or higher level process descriptions.
A science blogger shows an example of how important ontology development is to accessing your information. You see, sometimes even technical geeks get lost in the terminology of browsers, indexing, and taxonomies. This particular science blogger took time to explain for the confused few while reviewing GoPubMed, an ontology-based browser.
The semantic web is being used for many types of organizations and for many applications. In the retail world, it is being developed to optimize the process. By creating ontologies that serve as a reference for the data found on the internet, semantic technology can create comprehensive evaluations for customers and business owners.
Ontology Systems and Neotel are extending their working relationship with the use of Ontology Intelligent 360 for an aligned view of services.
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fluidOps offers a version of its Information Workbench platform integrated with OWLIM, an enterprise semantic database from Ontotext.
Miller School researchers have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a novel database to enable neuroscientists to search the voluminous number of studies related to nervous system repair, and link relevant data from those studies to other resources.
Ontologies are the newest label attached to knowledge organization systems (KOSs). They are generally specific modules and models developed by the knowledge management community. Stanford University has developed an ontology software called Protégé, which people seem to either love or hate. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of middle ground. They are either very fond of it: “Oh, I just love Protégé!”; or they hate it: “I don’t understand that tool; it doesn’t make any sense to me.” I don’t know which class you will fall into, but it is open source software and it is available. So, try it out and make your own decision.
Poderopedia is a project that aims to promote greater transparency in Chile by mapping and visualizing the relationships among the country's elite. To achieve this, semantic technologies are being utilized to store and query data. These technologies represent a diverse set of relations between entities (people, companies, organizations) in a flexible way. By identifying the power and influence of people, key Chilean political, civic and business leaders can be identified. OWL (Web Ontology Language) is being used to define the vocabulary because it provides the semantic richness needed.