Andrew Lacy, one of the co-founders of the mobile game Tapulous, has moved into a new market with ZapTravel, a semantic travel search engine. The premise is to take away the data entry approach and use a more texting approach, i.e., “I want to go to Paris.”
Ontology Systems is a finalist in the Big Data and Analytics category for the Pipeline COMENT Innovation Awards 2013.
The Disaster 2.0 team recently hosted the second Masterclass at the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium to discuss the role of social media and web technologies in providing information during disasters. Disaster 2.0 is a two-year project exploring how EU governments currently and can potentially use web 2.0 applications and semantic technologies in disaster response.
As the semantic web continues to develop and grow, it increases the potential to test and challenge the technical and human resources currently supporting it. So the idea of a conference focused specifically on crowdsourcing the semantic web, seems appropriate.
Microsoft recently released Enterprise Library (EL) 6.0 with a semantic logging application block. Enterprise Library has a long history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business (LOB) systems.
Defining our own emotions is difficult enough, but now Google is working on a semantic natural language technology that will read emotions and meaning from your internet history so your query returns a dynamic and comprehensive result. Search is no longer about just keywords.
The 9th International IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Workshop on Semantic Web & Web Semantics (SWWS 2013) is being held in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM 2013) between September 9–13, 2013 in Graz, Austria.
Monster has long been associated with recruiting, job search applications and connecting people with job opportunities. They are expanding that reach with the launch of SeeMore in France. SeeMore is a semantic search and workforce analytics recruitment platform. This will be the first of its kind in France.
Ixxus is contributing a new tool that integrates the faceted search capabilities of Apache Solr into Alfresco 4. CMS Critic brought this news to our attention in their article, “New Alfresco Faceted Search by Ixxus Delivers Enhanced Enterprise Content Search.” This new addition will assist Alfresco in fulfilling the ‘Smart Search’ requirements of its 2012 Product Road Map. Other benefits will include enhanced functionality and discoverability using metadata-driven, faceted searching. The new faceted search will greatly improve the discoverability of content and search results.
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