Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Patent Awarded to Guid
The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Guid with a patent for its method of helping organizations quickly and efficiently search for data within the corporate universe. This system is better known as EnCase(R) Enterprise.
Read MoreGrant Given to Build Database and Image Library
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.
Read MoreXBRL US Gets New CEO
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.
Read MorePPC Chosen by National Archives and Records Administration
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.
Read MoreAnother Semantic Technology Release
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.
Read MoreKnowledge Organization Systems
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!
KMWorld 2010 Coming Soon
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.
Read MoreStandards Are Top of the List
Lack of standards, applications built without considering data sharing, and a lack of a metadata warehouse all make data integration difficult. What can make it easy, or, at the very least, easier?
Read MoreHealth Information and Semantic Technology
Healthline Networks has rolled out Healthline Navigator, a new Medically Guided™ in-text content navigation and distribution tool for Web publishers and marketers. The new navigation platform is rolling out across many top-tier HealthWeb with the potential to reach over 40 million unique users a month.
Read MoreSharing Pandora’s Box Just Got Easier
Pandora has introduced a new opportunity to share the listening and discovery through gifted subscriptions that can be purchased directly on the site. Listeners have the option to either email a gift card immediately to the recipient or schedule the email for up to a year in advance. A printable version is also available.
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