XML.com Let’s say you’re curious to find out the population of the city you live in. Go to Google and ask it “population of philadelphia, pa.” Ha! We’re too smart for Google. It tries to answer the question but comes up with “Pennsylvania – Population: 12,281,054 ; 6th, 12/00.” That’s not what we were looking [...]

FCW.com An open-standards group has created a framework that could facilitate the global exchange of information among organizations. The naming system could benefit a wide range of disciplines, from disaster response to medical research. The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) has the potential to hasten information exchange by indexing the world’s datasets — [...]

DM Review The increasing importance of electronic channels is also a key to the rise in unstructured enterprise content (EC). With increased governmental and regulatory scrutiny, there are mandates to keep records of Internet and email transactions. Demand for richer media such as audio files and HD video for training, marketing, etc. also creates EC. [...]

W3C The Web was designed as an information space, with the goal that it should be useful not only for human-human communication, but also that machines would be able to participate and help. One of the major obstacles to this has been the fact that most information on the Web is designed for human consumption, [...]

Computer World The Semantic Web is a visionary project that aims to enhance the usability and usefulness of the Web by enabling computers to find, read, understand and use the content of Web documents to accomplish tasks via automated agents and Web-based services. Tim Berners-Lee – the Oxford University graduate who invented the Web in [...]

isubengal.com While forensics experts dust for cyberfingerprints at the crime scene, others, such as Bhavani Thuraisingham, are on the offensive. As head of the CyberSecurity Research Center at the University of Texas at Dallas and a professor of computer science, Thuraisingham is developing techniques to prevent cybercrime. Designing safe systems requires a strong understanding of [...]