Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009
Times: 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. EST
Duration: 60 minutes

These days it’s critical for organizations to consume, digest, and share news and information. The Semantic Web is no longer ahead of its time and is rapidly changing how organizations keep up with information overload.

Join us for Part I of this series and learn how Semantic Web Technologies enable you to:

* Re-use valuable information to save costs in today’s budget-cutting environment
* Facilitate easier collaboration and sharing of critical information across your business
* Increase search relevancy and surface the most valuable information needed to remain competitive

SPEAKERS

Christine Connors is the global director, semantic technology solutions for the Enterprise Media Group at Dow Jones and Company. In this position, she manages a worldwide team that is responsible for the development of taxonomies and metadata that are used to add value to Dow Jones news and financial information products, and a US-based team of software developers who support the Synaptica® software application. She also supports Dow Jones consulting practices, based in the Americas, Europe and Asia, which deliver end-to-end information access solutions based on taxonomy, metadata and semantic technologies.
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Daniela Barbosa is a business development manager for the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, where she is responsible for the Dow Jones Client Solutions business semantic and taxonomy management tool, Synaptica. Ms. Barbosa works with large corporations in deploying information strategies through various parts of the enterprise, including helping them develop and manage their corporate vocabularies. Connecting business information with vocabulary management solutions, Ms. Barbosa is responsible for delivering end-to-end solutions that help organizations add structure and value to existing information assets and connects users to the information they need, when and where they need it.
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