Archive for May, 2009
MODS Ontology
I am currently working on developing a MODS ontology, based on information from the above Library of Congress web site.
Major Search Providers All Pursuing Semantic Search
Although this article from PCWorld magazine largely focuses on the notion that Google’s share of the US search market is so far ahead of everyone else that providing new features may hardly even matter to its dominance, the author still offers the following perspective on common interest in semantic search.
“The search wars are heating up again, as the three major search engines–Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft–are launching new features.
… While all three companies are presenting somewhat different ways to search, they are all going after the same thing: semantic search or the ability for a computer to understand what you’re looking for based on your query and not just return a list of results based on keywords. No one has done it yet, but search companies are closer than before.”
Data.Gov
Posted by admin in Linked Data on May 21st, 2009
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data.
This is a test
Universities can survive only with radical reform
See full essay“…we must fundamentally reinvent our institutions. We must become more agile, more responsive, less insular, and less bureaucratic. In so doing, we will save ourselves from slouching into irrelevance.
To accomplish the wholesale change that is needed for our students, our nation, and our world, universities must break out of the silo structures – of departments and budgets and mind sets – that have calcified over time.” – Gordon Gee (President of Ohio State University)
A version of this essay was given as the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in February.
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