Link Roundup – August 5, 2012
Here are some links in the world of Enterprise Information Management that you may have missed last week:
Big Data
Multi-Language Big Data and the Role of Linguistic Technology (B Eye Network) – An interview with a specialist in applying language processing against Big Data…
The Rise of Data Virtualization in the Cloud (Programmable Web) – The answer to the burning question, “What is the founder of Informix up to these days?”…
Will Hadoop Steal Work from ETL Solutions? (IT Business Edge) – An argument for Big Data tools to provide a possible solution to a long-standing data warehousing issue…
Exercise Better Data Management (OCDQ Blog) – A discussion on avoiding “MOData”…
Big Data: Changing How Business and IT Interact (Informatica) – Something that I find myself saying about a lot of “new” things…”You already know how to do this…”
Data Governance
A Manifesto for Managing Metadata in an Open World (Metadata Matters) – A concise summary of the Dublin Core philosophy of metadata management…
The Architectural Scope of Data Governance (Informatica) – Logical, not technical, architectural considerations for a large-scale data governance initiative…
Linked/Open Data
CKAN Instances Around the World (CKAN) – An ever-evolving list of worldwide stores of Linked Open Data, primarily from governments…
Top 10 API Worst Practices (Programmable Web) – How to ensure that a newly-published API is not used…
Five Keys to a Successful App Challenge (Programmable Web) – One method for developing interest in a new tool os to challenge developers to create new and innovative ways to use it. This post describes how to run a successful challenge program…
REST, Hypermedia, and the Future of Enterprise APIs (Programmable Web) – A primer on the development of the REST web programming paradigm, its challenges in conversing from existing methods, and a few predictions about the future…
Interview: Ora Lassila on Web Apps Powered by Linked Data (W3C) – An interview with one of the earliest proponents of Linked Data on where the space is heading…
Semantics
Banks Deploy Artificial Intelligence to Deepen Understanding of Customers (American Banker) – Despite the incorrect use of the “AI” term, this is a good introduction to the ways banks are using semantic acquisition to better understand their customers…
UMBEL Services, Part 4 – structOntology (AI3) – An extremely detailed description of the structOntology tool, which manipulates the Open Semantic Framework upper ontology. Since this is part 4, I have some catching up to do on Parts 1-3…
Google Introduces Structured Data Dashboard (SemanticWeb.com) – A new way to check on Google’s effectiveness in using structured data…
To Combat Unemployment, Improve Job Search Options (Huffington Post) – A compelling article on using semantic technologies to enhance prospects for the millions of people hurting right now…
From Information to Understanding: Moving Beyond Search in the Age of Siri (TechCrunch) – What do we really want our smart assistants to do?
WikiSeer Tackles Semantic Summaries (Virtual Strategy Magazine) – A press release about a tool that scours Wikipedia for the most important sentences about a subject…
Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments…
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