Digital Asset Management

Breakthrough Analysis: Two + Nine Types of Semantic Search > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions.
Semantics is hot, but only in a geeky sort of way. Contrast with search, which long ago shed its geeky image to become the Web’s #1 utility. Search and semantics have similar goals and rely on similar technologies. Both [...]

Extractiv: Content Provisioning : Beyond Search.

A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to Extractiv. The company is in the “content provisioning business”, and I did not know what this phrase meant. I know about “telecommunications provisioning”, but the “content” part threw me. I followed the links my reader sent me and located [...]

TEDxSoMa – Damon Horowitz - 1/22/10

SEC XBRL Mandate Part II – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid | XBRL Blog Magazine.

Location:
Web Seminar
Start Date:
February 24, 2010, 14:00
End Date:
February 24, 2010, 15:00
The SEC says that beginning with the second year of XBRL filings, organisations must tag footnotes using four different levels of detail.

1.
Each complete footnote tagged as a single block of text;

2.
Each [...]

Ontology matching is a promising solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem

An ontology typically provides a vocabulary that describes a domain of interest and a specification of the meaning of terms used in the vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this specification, the notion of ontology encompasses several data/conceptual models, for example, classifications, database schemas, [...]

The Semantic Web: A Perfect Complement to Master Data Management Initiatives.

J. Brooke Aker
In today’s complex business environment, data grows and changes at a rapid pace. Making the best use of data both within the enterprise and externally is essential to corporate success. The challenge is locating, analyzing and categorizing this information to make [...]

OpenAmplify Injects Semantics Into Keyword Targeting Systems.

OpenAmplify (www.OpenAmplify.com), the Semantic Web platform, today launched PinPoint™, a new service that significantly improves the effectiveness of online advertising by delivering semantic data into keyword targeting for the very first time. PinPoint can be implemented by ad networks, ad exchanges and online publishers to intelligently identify the [...]

Marketing in 2010: It’s All About the Data.

That’s So Meta

Finally, looking beyond data to metadata – that’s where the biggest opportunity lies in the long-run for marketers. Metadata is already here in the form of microformats and the Semantic Web, but it’s still in many ways a frontier.
What is metadata? It’s data that describes data – [...]

4 Ways for Augmented Reality to Get Past the Hype – GigaOM.

With 197 million augmented reality-capable smartphones set to be in the global market by 2012, up from nearly 91 million in 2010, the building blocks are falling into place for people to merge digital information with their view of the physical world. But [...]

The Open World Assumption: Elephant in the Room

In speaking of the semantic Web, it is not infrequent that the open world assumption (OWA) gets mentioned. What this post argues is that this somewhat obscure concept may hold within it the key as to why there have been decades of too-frequent failures in the enterprise [...]