Semantics and Airline Flight

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Airline Routing Maps (courtesy United Airlines) A question that I’m frequently asked about Semantic Web technology is how is this different from any other data storage or query approach? In general, data storage strategies are built less around data access speeds – in most cases the speeds are comparable – but in optimizing the storage to [...]

Why JavaScript is the Future of Enterprise Computing

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Once upon a time – okay, about 1996 or so – there was a race for dominance of this new thing called the World Wide Web. On one side was Microsoft, having firmly staked its ground a few years before with the introduction of Windows 3.0. On the other side was a little startup called [...]

Turning Big Data into Smart Data

The trade IT press has recently begun to apply the label Big Data to specific technologies, most notably Hadoop, as if this was some kind of feature. Yet this approach is somewhat simplistic (as is the term itself) because Big Data isn’t a product – it’s a problem. It’s one reason why I tend to [...]

What is next in Enterprise Search

Mashable just published an interesting article about Googles latest advancements in search.  The article, Google Knowledge Graph Could Change Search Forever, describes a “developing vision for search that takes it beyond mere words and into the world of entities, attributes and the relationship between those entities.” Google is building a huge knowledge base describing entities, [...]