U.S. Navy Swimming in the Semantic Sea

The U.S. Navy believes the semantic Web will connect data in new ways and lay the foundation for further advances in their world. Their objective is to manage a global network that delivers instant integration of military data across a number of separate specializations such as geographic, intelligence, logistics and manpower, as well as provide information about red or blue forces. The semantic Web will be the engine needed to power the effort.

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OWL Export Module: Data Harmony for the Semantic Web

by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO of Access Innovations, Inc. Access Innovations, Inc.What do you make of “198“?  You could assume a number.  Computer applications make no assumptions since it could be an integer, octal, decimal, etc.  Neither you nor the computer could do anything useful with it.  What if, we added a period, so…

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Automatic Indexing: A Matter of Degree

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava October 2002 First published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 29 No. 1, October/November 2002. Table of Contents Definitions What Systems Are There? How Should They Be Applied? What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses? How Do We Know If They Really Work? How Expensive…

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Database of Chemicals Creates Community

Chemists have hundreds of data sources online covering tens of millions of different chemical compounds. Unfortunately accessing that online data has not always been easy. ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, may have solved that problem.

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