Data Integration Specialists Needed

Ontology Systems has launched a partner program aimed at recruiting data integration specialists. Ontology specializes in semantic search technology, so the specialists they are seeking need to be experienced with this game-changing technology. This interesting information was found on Channel Pro in their article, “Ontology kicks off search for data integration specialists.”

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Semantic Web Challenge Winners

The winners of the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC) were determined by a jury of leading experts in computer semantics from both academia and industry. The winners were announced at the 12th International Semantic Web Conference held in Sydney, Australia last month. This interesting news came from CIOL in their article, “Winners of 2013 Semantic Web Challenge announced.”

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Social Semantics’ Effect on Restaurants

Social media has impacted and assisted few areas of business like it has the restaurant business. Four Square, Yelp, Facebook check-ins, and many other online review platforms have made or broken many a food provider. Now there is a new online reputation management site that specializes in the hospitality industry as a whole, now including restaurants. TrustYou’s 360-degree solution, which aggregates and analyzes online reviews and social media content for the culinary world, delivers semantic analysis to help drive revenue. This interesting information was found on Fast Casual in their article, “TrustYou.com expands into restaurant space.”

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Semantic Technology Increases Findability

The semantic web is inspiring interest by Fujitsu Ireland and local scientists who are forming a research alliance. Since the semantic web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the inclusion of semantic content in web pages seems a natural fit. Computer World UK brought this information to our attention in their article, “Ireland and Fujitsu aim to cash in on semantic web.”

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A Different Approach

One computer engineer took the subject of his PhD thesis, Propuesta e implementación de una arquitectura genérica para la creación de cursos para Sistemas Tutores Inteligentes (Proposal and Implementation of a generic architecture for the creation of courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems), to create a tool that simplified and “humanized” intelligent tutoring systems. This very interesting news was found on Basque Research in their article, “A tool that enables courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems to be designed simply and intuitively is created.”

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Semantic News

Journalism, printing, and news have been under fire for years and the constant threat of social media and digital keeps them hopping just to keep up. So what has the effect of the semantic web had on the art of journalism?

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