Linked Data Plays a Role in Efforts to End IoT Fragmentation
The Internet of Things (IoT) is on the fast track, with IHS Markit recently forecasting that the number of connected IOT devices this year will reach 20 billion. In its report, IoT Trend Watch 2017, however, the research firm also points to technology fragmentation in the area, which will require efforts including further alignment of […]
Read More →Schema.org, EDM Council Partner to Create Smarter Searching for Financial Markets Websites
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “EDM Council, the financial industry’s trade association for data management, is teaming up with Schema.org to transform the way financial concepts are linked across the internet to deliver more relevant and accurate results from major search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Yandex. The initiative will help […]
Read More →The Emphasis is on Out-of-the-Box Internet of Things Data Management
Enterprises face growing Data Management challenges as the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) becomes an increasing part of their daily activities. The difficulties for companies in sectors like manufacturing and energy start with a slew of Internet of Things devices, producing and sending information in realtime, whose sensor data must often be combined with other […]
Read More →2017 Trends for Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies
Are you hearing the term “Semantic Web” as often as you may have in the past? There’s no denying the importance of the technologies, standards, concepts, and collaborations that define the Semantic Web proper and all that is affiliated with it or grown out of it. These range from a dependency on RDF/OWL triple stores […]
Read More →Base22 Releases New Development Platform for Next Web
by Angela Guess A recent press release out of the company reports, “Base22 today announced the public beta launch of its flagship software product, Carbon LDP. Carbon LDP is one of the first commercial implementations of the Linked Data Platform specification, a new kind of Semantic Web system endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium […]
Read More →Banking on FIBO: Financial Institutions Turn to Semantic Standard
What is a Semantic Bank? One thing is for sure: The Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) developed by the EDM Council, which semantically defines core financial industry concepts and relationships, probably plays a big role in it. A look at Deutsche Bank should help clarify the concept. The bank has leveraged FIBO as the basic […]
Read More →A Brief History of Semantics
Generally speaking, Semantics is the study of language and its meaning. As a word, Semantics was first used by Michel Bréal, a French philologist in 1883, and can be used to describe how words can have different meanings for different people, due to their experiential and emotional backgrounds. A language can be a natural language, […]
Read More →Smart Data Plus Deep Reasoning Equals Business Value from Data Analysis
Coherent Knowledge would like businesses that want to make more effective use of the knowledge they capture and distribute to become more familiar with Rulelog. That is the logic underlying knowledge representation languages such as Vulcan’s Silk and the rule language used by its own Ergo Suite semantic rules and reasoning platform. Smart Data is […]
Read More →A More Semantic Web is In Our Future
by Angela Guess Ankit Mathur recently wrote in IndraStra, “There are two aspects to the possible future of the Web; one is that it is definitely going to be more social and more people-centric, but the other important characteristic is that it’s going to be more semantic in nature. The Web technologies that we have […]
Read More →JSON and Linked Data Defined
by Angela Guess Rodrigo Mehren recently wrote in DZone, “JSON is JavaScript Object Notation (said ‘Jason,’ like the name) while ‘LD’ stands for ‘Linked Data.’ The principles behind JSON (and its LD offspring), are simplicity and interchangeability. JSON is used in the back-end to store and express a variety of data in a property:value format. […]
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