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KOnnect

• January 28, 2010
• 23:04

  “Raw Data Now!”

   » ‎ KOnnect
  ‘Data’ is not synonymous with ‘meaning’. Although in all the recent fuss about Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s attempt to overturn the UK Civil Service’s ingrained culture of secrecy, this might easily be overlooked. The announcement of data.gov.uk is to be welcomed, but it is only the first step on a long and complex road. The fears [...]
• January 24, 2010
• 23:06

  Open Source Software: A Serious Option At Last?

   » ‎ KOnnect
  I am increasingly impressed by what open source (OS) software communities are offering. Not just in terms of the sheer range of applications, but by their quality too. That’s an observation vindicated by the recent award of DoD 5015.02 Records Management Certification  to Alfresco, according it the kudos of being the first open source product [...]
• January 13, 2010
• 23:06

  Self-Signifying Data

   » ‎ KOnnect
  ** Event rescheduled to March 24, 2010 ** Those ISKO UK members who attended Dave Snowden’s memorable seminar in April 2009 – Human-machine symbiosis for data interpretation – may remember what I remember as a collective gestalt. ‘Self-signifying data’ was the phrase, I believe, and it proved more memorable for many even than Dave’s ‘Blanket [...]
• September 18, 2009
• 23:35

  Trying to please everyone

   » ‎ KOnnect
  One of the enduring attractions of our profession (that’s information management, knowledge management, records management, information science, knowledge organization – whatever you want to call it) for me, is that it impacts upon everything. Yes, literally, everything. When we build a taxonomy, relate descriptors in a thesaurus or assign keywords, we are mediators among a [...]
• August 04, 2009
• 23:05

  Linked Data: A Crystallizing Vision

   » ‎ KOnnect
  It seems like only yesterday that cyberspace was a-buzz with excited predictions of the coming Nirvana of the Internet – the Semantic Web (SemWeb). But commentators were split into two distinct camps. The enthusiasts talked of nothing less than a revolution bringing greatly enriched search and navigation experiences, while the snarks muttered ‘jam tomorrow’ and [...]
• June 29, 2009
• 22:30

  Death of the document?

   » ‎ KOnnect
  With not even a soupçon of the quagmire I was entering, I recently looked up the definition of ‘document’. In case you didn’t know, the glib dictionary definitions hide a debate that has, well, not exactly raged, but rather limped on for nearly twenty years now. I don’t know, but I guess that it was [...]
• May 13, 2009
• 23:51

  Google Ups its Stakes in the Search 2.0 Race

   » ‎ KOnnect
  A fortnight ago, I commented that ‘Google deserves to enjoy a brief whiff of schadenfreud’ before Stephen Wolfram launches his computational knowledge engine in May. Well, Google appear to have pipped him to the post in the first round of Search 2.0, although the actual finishing line in the web search race is still nowhere [...]
• May 01, 2009
• 23:44

  David and Goliath 2.0?

   » ‎ KOnnect
  There is superficial search and there is deep search. While Google is great at the first, it’s not so good at the second. There are some enterprise search applications which can claim the centre-ground between the deep and the superficial, but most of the runners in that particular race fall somewhere along the way and [...]
• April 27, 2009
• 22:57

  Topic Maps Go Open Source

   » ‎ KOnnect
  XTM Topic Maps (ISO 13250) is a Semantic Web-related technology using XML to describe knowledge structures. A number of start-up companies in Europe and the US in the early 2000s initiated programmes to develop applications supporting the creation and navigation of Topic Maps. Of them, only Ontopia in Norway seems to have survived in any [...]
• April 23, 2009
• 1:05

  Tag Clouds: The People’s KO?

   » ‎ KOnnect
  Most of us, I am sure, are familiar with Tag Clouds. But do they offer any real value? Wordle is just one example of a number of tools available on the Web for analyzing text for the most frequently-used words and presenting the results as a Tag Cloud. The example above is Wordle’s analysis of [...]