In Facets=Classes=Sets, Marlene Rockmore writing on The Taxonomy Blog discusses how formal techniques from mathematical models like Sets (Venn diagrams) can and should be applied to The Semantic Web to ensure that the goal of seamlessly integrated web information applications and resources becomes more readily attainable:
“To create taxonomies …
Continue reading »John Kaiser writing on the Digital Landfill blog considers 8 factors to think about when choosing a scanner:
“While creating an Information Management …
Continue reading »Ian Soboroff’s “Pseudo” Posterous blog entry considers the problem of big data, which he defines as “data that’s bigger than what you can comfortably store and process right now“. He offers a background to the ‘big data’ problem and considers various Cloud oriented techniques as well as using …
Continue reading »Michael Peckham writing on the Digital Landfill blog considers 8 methods for learning from the wisdom of crowds (if you subscribe to this theory):
Seth Maislin writing on the Earley Associates blog discusses the role of indexing (for books and publications) and how a ‘Cloud’ based approach where end users contribute to produce the index may provide a method for publishers to continue to index titles. He also considers how manual indexing is disappearing …
Continue reading »The Kaltura HTML5 video sequencer is now available on Wikimedia Commons and allows rudimentary video editing (via EDLs – Edit Decision Lists) using an HTML5 interface. The demo is definitely very powerful and it’s hard to believe it’s purely browser based.
“The Kaltura HTML5 sequencer Edit Decision list format …
Continue reading »Orri Erling, writing on on the Open Link Software Blog discussed the business of Semantically Linked Data. Several business related questions are considered in the article:
Writing for CMSReport.com, Jim Thumma contends that Open Source and SaaS ECM providers (the “new kids on the block” as he calls them) are too good to be true and not to be relied upon like proprietary vendors:
“But like my grandfather used to say, “If it sounds …
Continue reading »Earley Associates present a webinar on SharePoint 2010 Taxonomy Governance on October 6th:
“In this session, we will explore the Term Store and Enterprise Keyword management features along with other SP 2010 information policy management functions (such as document lifecycle management including content ownership and review and expiration dates). …
Continue reading »OpenText have released their ECM Suite 2010 today, the highlights include:
One of our featured vendors, Razuna release an updated edition of their open source DAM platform today:
“Developers and network admins will appreciate the new backup & restore, enhanced permission settings and rich API functions. As a user, you will love that Razuna feels much snappier, has the option …
Continue reading »As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, Flickr reached another milestone today with the 5 billionth image being uploaded:
“Here we are, only 5 short years since Flickr was started and they have over 5 BILLION images online! An enormous archive but luckily for stock photography users, some of the …
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