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NIST Addresses Smart Grid Standards

By Melody Smith | November 8, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends a common semantical understanding of data elements to implement the Smart Grid. In draft version 2.0 of its framework and roadmap for Smart Grid interoperability standards, NIST proposed a conceptual model of the Smart Grid. A Smart Grid truly operating as envisioned is heavily dependent on the consistency of semantic models.

Is Semantic Web A Reality?

By Melody Smith | November 8, 2011

The IC3K, 3rd International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

Semantic Technology Company Sees Germany as Prime Market

By Melody Smith | November 3, 2011

Semantic Web and Big Data Technology company, PolarLake, has opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. Known for addressing the challenges of financial and reference data management, they apparently see the German market ripe for development.

Back To School

By Melody Smith | October 31, 2011

If you are one of those people who love to learn something new all the time or maybe someone who enjoys going to school as an adult professional, this might be right up your alley. Free university classes – yes, I said free. From Stanford School of Engineering, an experiment in distributed education that offers “Machine Learning” free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.

New Partnership Focusing on Semantic Enrichment

By Melody Smith | October 27, 2011

HighWire Press has entered into a strategic partnershp with TEMIS. HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid® software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers.

Compliance Challenges and Semantic Solutions

By Melody Smith | October 25, 2011 |

One of the common challenges for data and tool integration is how complex biological data can be due to its inter-connectivity. With no standards or processes widely adopted, this left little hope for improvement in the situation. However, recent attempts have focused on the use of semantics to assist integration, and Semantic Web technologies are being welcomed by this community.

Clearing the Air

By Melody Smith | October 20, 2011

Few would argue about the growing volumes of data our digital lives have created. Many look to semantic technologies as a solution, or at least enhance processing and analyzing data. The constant challenge is the data was mostly published for human consumption and software finds it a challenge to format that which it doesn’t understand.

Fall Semantic Conference in D.C.

By Melody Smith | October 20, 2011

Mediabistro has announced the program for its Semantic Tech & Business Conference scheduled for November 29-December 1, 2011 in Washington, D.C. This conference covers the latest innovations in Semantic Web and linked data technologies.

Start-up Technologies Get Some Recognition

By Melody Smith | October 19, 2011

A list of start-up categories most admired was released and it is no surprise that content management made the top spot. A majority of the start-ups are into IT or mobile space, as these are the hottest selling regions.

ICD-10 Compliance In Time

By Melody Smith | October 18, 2011

Verisk Health has expanded the DxCG Risk Solutions suite to include greater predictive power and reporting capabilities. Now the product is compliant with the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) system. This comes in time to meet the October 2013 deadline to switch from the ICD- 9 classification system to the new ICD-10-CM.