Archive for November, 2009
Evolving as a Content Strategist
The Age of Information is here. The economic, political, and global landscape is changing quickly. As web programmers and information developers (or those with shared skills), we search for a way to survive and prosper. We know that we need to recreate ourselves to be self-sustaining, innovative, and adaptable. We fight fears of corporate downsizing [...]
November 30, 2009
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Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups
Meshing Information and Mashing Functionality
Linked Data and Mashups rely on open standards to integrate information and furnish collaborative features, but differ on their uses and the intricacies of combining disparate data and features to build new functionality from cloud resources. Both provide emerging standards to provide content and shared applications for readers/users from existing Web resources coupled with proprietary [...]
November 24, 2009
В· mhiatt В· 2 Comments
Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web, single-source authoring В· Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Ontologies, Semantic Web
The Myth of Single-Source Authoring
Single-source publishing is a zombie idea that revives itself periodically and refuses to stay dead. Its zombie supporters chant its purported benefits as a “write once, publish to many” promise and ploddingly follow it as their ultimate goal for mechanized authoring and machine translation. As an object-oriented writing methodology, it is as human as present-day [...]
November 18, 2009
В· mhiatt В· 25 Comments
Tags: knowledge mashups, Linked data, single-sourc authoring, Single-source publications В· Posted in: Contextual Data, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Single-source publishing
About Mashups and Linked Data
In the past few postings, I presented some of the problems in managing information for corporate products and services using legacy authoring and publishing processes combined with new Web 2.0 communication practices. Take a look at these postings to get a clear view of where I’m coming from: Shotgun Communication: Haphazard information distribution from disparate [...]
November 16, 2009
В· mhiatt В· 10 Comments
Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web В· Posted in: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web
Shotgun Communication
For many organizations, delivery of information about emerging products and services is undisciplined and chaotic. A mix of relevant, irrelevant, and erroneous content ends up scattered across the Web and overlaps from page to page, author to author, and medium to medium. With this shooting-from-the-hip delivery, information arrives as diffused and insulated content from the [...]
November 5, 2009
В· mhiatt В· 6 Comments
Tags: Information management, knowlege management, Linked data В· Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data
Knowledge from the Cloud
Searching for relevant information on the Web is both breathtaking and exhausting. With a single phrase you can generate a list of thousands of references that overwhelm the human intellect. To get just the right information, Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, and other search engines devise algorithms to answer each query based on their interpretation [...]
November 3, 2009
В· mhiatt В· 3 Comments
Tags: cloud, Knowledge, Linked data, Web knowledge В· Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge, Semantic Web