It’s nice to find someone else who is helping publishers make the transition from a centralized gatekeeper model based on content “containers” to a bottom-up digital model focused on the reader’s (user’s) workflow. Brian O’Leary approaches the issue from a publishing industry point of view, while I view it from the perspective of enterprise information … Continue reading
After spending the last 6 months learning and teaching the latest version of SharePoint, I have the feeling that the product has reached an inflection point. Yes, SharePoint 2013 has significant new capabilities, but most of them have a catch: Social networking features such as Likes, Badges, Most Popular, Mention, Follow, and Hashtags may be … Continue reading
As I look at new semantic web products and services, I can’t help remembering what it was like to be on the cutting edge of library automation almost 40 years ago. What can we learn from that history — if anything? In “From Automation to Transformation: Forty Years of Libraries and Information Technology in Higher … Continue reading
The IT world borrowed the taxonomy concept from biology to compensate for the fact that users didn’t know what to type in the search box. It was hard for them to figure out what a Web site was about and zero in on their area of interest. The taxonomy (a hierarchical list of topics) served … Continue reading
I’ve been working with a crackerjack SharePoint programmer to integrate our Filemaker metadata repository with SharePoint. The objective was to maintain thesaurus terms and relationships in Filemaker (where they’ve lived since 1998) and have those changes automatically made to the corresponding data in the SharePoint term store. There are, of course, several good programs on … Continue reading
Originally published June 2009 Until recently, information about the Semantic Web has been either visionary and theoretical or highly technical. Now, with the appearance of applications such as Google’s “rich snippets,” Yahoo’s SearchMonkey, and Reuters OpenCalais, the future is tantalizingly close (see De facto standards for semantic search?). It’s time to face two issues that … Continue reading
