XBRL 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.

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PPC 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.

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Another 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.

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Knowledge 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!

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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.

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Health 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.

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