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  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Ontologies, Semantic Web  2 Comments

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  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Single-source publishing  25 Comments

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 and [...]

November 16, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web  10 Comments

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  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data  6 Comments

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  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge, Semantic Web  3 Comments

Top 5 web trends of 2009

According to ReadWriteWeb, the top 5 trends of 2009 are:

Structured Data – structuring information using Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data
The Real-Time Web – “a new form of communication” that creates an immediate, public body of content and “has an explicit social graph associated with it”
Personalization – “an organization layer for users on top of [...]

September 14, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web, Semantic Data, Semantic Web  No Comments