TM Forum’s Management World remained focused on operations this year. Even if their expansion into “specialist streams” might have initially confused some people into thinking TM Forum is “straying” from its core competency.
The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support developing a database and image library at the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum and consolidating data from five additional arthropod collections.
The national consortium for XML business reporting standards, XBRL US, has announced that Campbell Pryde, the current Chief Standards Officer and head of development, has been named President and CEO.
Project Performance Corporation (PPC) has been awarded a contract by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to support modernization of the Archival Description and Authority Services. PPC will provide expertise in the areas of Application Architecture and Development, Service Oriented Architecture, Taxonomy and Search, Data Management and Modeling, Program and Project Management, and Quality Control.
Newly released Sophia Search, a new solution that uses a semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be efficiently recovered, consolidated and leveraged, delivers a three-dimensional solution.
I attended the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh. There were quite a few papers and posters I found aligned with taxonomies and the whole area of linked data, semantic implementations and the Dublin Core. The DC-2010 conference, sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), was held immediately prior to ASIS&T in the same hotel so the over lap in participants and programming was spot on for my interests. The ASIS&T annual meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. It has veered heavily into usability for the last few years and this change back to mainline information science was refreshing!
The latest addition to the keynote lineup at KMWorld 2010 is Thomas A. Stewart, Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer of Booz & Company and best-selling author. Stewart will share winning strategies for developing and evolving knowledge-driven enterprises that are productive, innovative, and successful. Using real-world examples he will illustrate how those strategies have worked in many different types of organizations.