The semantic web is here. Is your organization ready?

Fiona McNeill
Fiona McNeill|August 25, 2011

I’m in between summer holiday breaks, clearing the decks and getting caught up.  Two items that have kept me thinking after the workdays are done were the recent Kent State Online Open House presentation on “Semantic Technologies and Knowledge Management: What is it and why should we care,” and the [...]

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Text Analytics for Smarter Search

Fiona McNeill
Fiona McNeill|January 4, 2011

My colleague, Cailyn Clark and I were talking recently about how many times we have seen organizations implement search and content management systems only to still find that their employees are spending about 30 percent of their time searching for content. Cailyn summarized it best, as outlined, in the recent [...]

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TOTS: Taxonomy, Ontology, Thesauri and Semantics

Richard Foley|July 9, 2010

You would think that a in discipline focused on information retrieval, where understanding the meaning of words and phrases is critical, everyone would know the difference between a taxonomy, an ontology, a thesauri and semantics. Oddly this is not always the case. It’s not that the terms are poorly defined; [...]

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