Like Semantics on Crack
Analytics provider, Quid, continues to raise funding and add interested parties to their board of advisors. Their visual representations of data has interested many organizations, the most recent, PayPal.
Ontologies and Semantic Networks
As knowledge organization systems increase in complexity, we have increasing numbers of dimensions or features or ways to define the terms. Semantic networks help with bringing all those concepts together and tagging them so that you can look at them in lots of different ways.
From Simple to Complex
People talk about different kinds of vocabularies. The differences usually have to do with the structure, or lack thereof. Sometimes, people refer to “flat lists”. These are one-level lists with no hierarchical structure. They can be uncontrolled or controlled lists. An uncontrolled list is a simple, flat structure. The uncontrolled list is your “Saturday list”.
Ontology Matching Workshop in Germany This Fall
The Sixth International Workshop on Ontology Matching will take place in October in Bonn, Germany. The workshop will bring leaders from all genres and backgrounds to assess how academic advances are or are not addressing real-world requirements when it comes to ontology matching.
New Version of ontoprise Products Released
Karlsruhe has released OntoBroker 6.1 and OntoStudio 3.1 as part of the ontoprise product suite, the only infrastructure supporting all major W3C SemanticWeb recommendations including OWL, RDF(s), RIF and ObjectLogic.
HIGHFLEET’s Latest Release Finds New Uses
HIGHFLEET has announced the release of the latest version of its eXtensible Knowledge Server (XKS) ontology-based deductive database. This new release professes to have the only advanced, scalable first order logic-based deductive database that continues to find new uses.
Ontology Systems Goes Rogue
Ontology Systems, best known for their semantic search technology, has released Ontology 3. Previously known as OSS/CAD and now in its third generation, the new release focuses on the user experience.
Semantic Technology Used to Improve Mobile Phone Experience
Researchers in Spain are promising a better mobile telephone user experience by applying semantic technology to customize the application related to user tastes and preferences, social relations, services and environment.