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Category: Knowledge Modelling
Introducing SKOSsy – generate thesauri on the fly!
Imagine you could generate any thesaurus you would like for nearly any knowledge domain you can think of with quite a good quality! Sounds impossible? Reminds you of all the
rNews and its benefits for publishers
Last Wednesday at the Open House event of the Semantic Web Company in Vienna, Evan Sandhaus, Lead Semantic Architect at NY Times gave a comprehensive and entertaining introduction to rNews
Which kind of controlled vocabularies matter?
Looking at intermediate results of the Controlled Vocabularies Survey an interesting finding concerns the question which types of knowledge models are currently best fit for actual use in applications. So
Controlled vocabularies: "Data integration is king"
Just recently a survey about “Controlled vocabularies” and their significance for enterprise information management has started. Until today 143 participants have responded and completed the survey at least partially. To
Controlled vocabularies: “Data integration is king”
Just recently a survey about “Controlled vocabularies” and their significance for enterprise information management has started. Until today 143 participants have responded and completed the survey at least partially. To
Linked data based thesaurus management in collaborative settings
The creation and management of controlled vocabularies in companies often takes place in a distributed manner. Different departments in different branch offices often rather create their own vocabularies, than have
Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine
Looking for high quality enterprise vocabularies we recently turned our attention to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), which is an industry taxonomy designed to categorize any private company. It
Les Kneebone: “Semantic web technologies are one solution to linking education data in Australia”
Les Kneebone is Project Manager at Education Services Australia Ltd. Among other projects he is responsible for Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT). PoolParty Team asked Les a couple of questions about
KiWi Software Package Released – Call for KiWi Snow Camp
The 14th of October 2010 was a very special date for the KiWi project: After more than two and a half years of development version 1.0 of the semantic collaborative
Stella Dextre Clarke & Alan Gilchrist about the “Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web”
Semantic Web Company (SWC) had the pleasure and the opportunity to talk with two internationally recognised experts in the fields of information management and knowledge organization: Alan Gilchrist and Stella