Autor: Tim Strehle

„SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets.“

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld – IM as a unified collaboration platform: „We all know that IM (instant messaging) is a tremendous time-saver, allowing you to make fewer phone calls, answer fewer voice mails, and send and receive fewer e-mails. So when I spoke with Dave Marshak, director of IBM Lotus collaboration technology, on the occasion…

Toby Ward – The new intranet: wikis and RSS?: „Knowledge is shared and managed every day in every organization – it’s just not managed very well. And effective knowledge management is more than just a plug-and-play off-the-shelf software such as document management – effective knowledge management depends on highly collaborative and sharing employees who are…

Simon Phipps – Freedom To Leave: „If „interoperability“ meant „import only“, I’d never feel safe trying new things so market growth and innovation would be inhibited. People who implement open standards like this are smart, because although they allow customers to leave for greener pastures they also allow them to return – I am still…

Mario Apicella at InfoWorld – Can a federation tackle the data management puzzle?: „Obviously, data indexing and search are prerequisites to analysis and classification, and handling those processes efficiently is a major requirement. „Anybody can scale to handle billions of documents, but it’s going to take a ton of hardware to do it,“ states Robert…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Tech careers are on the wrong track: „IT careers require an understanding that the purpose of commercial computer systems is to serve people. Not to serve one another, not to serve database rows or HTTP packets, but to make people glad they’re using their computers instead of grappling with the…

Geoffrey Wiseman at InfoQ – Real-World Rule Engines: „For many developers, rule engines are buzzwords, or black boxes on an architectural diagram: something to be feared or admired from afar, but not understood. […] Over the course of this article, I’ll be sharing my practical experience with rule engines and with Drools in particular to…

Christopher Jones – Free PHP and Oracle Manual is Available: „The free Underground PHP and Oracle Manual [PDF] is hot off the press.“

Dan Zambonini at XML.com – The 7 (f)laws of the Semantic Web: „Creating metadata and classifications is difficult (let’s not get started on Ontologies). People are biased (whether they mean to be or not), and fallible. Metadata, which the Semantic Web relies on, is not always going to be of great quality. […] My clients…

Jim Bumgardner at ONLamp.com – Design Tips for Building Tag Clouds: „Tag clouds are only one, specific kind of weighted list. There are many kinds of mappings from visual features to underlying data that have not yet been exploited. How about trying some weighted lists that don’t look like common tag clouds? For example, you…