Posts Tagged ‘Ontology’
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?”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAdopting 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.
Read MoreU.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.
Read MoreHow Findable is Your Information?
The time which we spend looking for information is time taken away from other important tasks. Collecting information so that it is “findable” is beyond technology, beyond search; it is an understanding of how technology collects and indexes content to produce the right results.
Read MoreSynthesys v3.0 Released
Digital Reasoning Systems Inc. released their flagship solution for cloud-scale analytics in government and commercial markets – Synthesys v3.0.
Read MoreOWL 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…
Read MoreAutomatic 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…
Read MoreDatabase 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.
Read MoreUsing Ontologies to Integrate Data
PointCross has released its Study Data Integration and Search (SDIS) technology. SDIS is a solution that closes a major gap in the nonclinical phase of the R&D lifecycle.
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