Taxonomy’s Third Wave
I’ve heard it mentioned several times recently that “Taxonomies are hot again,” which leads to a couple of questions, namely, What is causing this renewed popularity? and, Why did they ever stop being “hot?”
The Semantic Web Journal Released
The first issue of the Semantic Web journal has been published and the online version of the journal is freely accessible.
Adopting Standards Takes Time, Unfortunately
Rumor has it the Open Group’s SOA Work Group intends the new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Ontology Technical Standard to be a semantic foundation for SOA terms and concepts.
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.
Synthesys v3.0 Released
Digital Reasoning Systems Inc. released their flagship solution for cloud-scale analytics in government and commercial markets - Synthesys v3.0.
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 […]
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 […]
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.