I recently came across an article by Mark Radoff, a senior consultant at Ovum. Ovum is one of the partners in the European project VALUE-IT, which aims to establish dynamic links between research and business environments. I got introduced to the project earlier when Mike Davis (also at Ovum) presented the intermediary project results at [...]
Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp generated a lot of activity during recent years – all of it in the semantic arena. He spent quite some time at DERI Innsbrück (now STI) and has a strong background in economics, which enables him to bring a welcome perspective on the domain and the technology. Take a look at [...]
During the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, I have been introduced to Evri by its CTO, Deep Dhillon. Deep explained how Evri differs from search engines such as Google and Bing.
Evri mines the web and adds a semantic layer to existing content. This enables their internal engine to build a network of meaningful facts [...]
As promised in a previous post, find below our movie, which shows how current approaches of integration can lead to complex situations, and how Semantic Data Integration helps to manage this problem. The video was crafted by the people from Beshart, the culprits responsible for our logo and other wonderful works around Collibra. Hats off [...]
Collibra has landed in Silicon Valley, San Jose for the 5th Semantic Technology Conference. Our booth is set up, the explanatory movie is ready, the brochures have arrived (despite customs ruining some of our boxes in our transport), … Collibra is ready to entertain its visitors, and show them how we tackle data.
We are in [...]
Collibra Island – zoomed out
I came across this some time ago, and it now reappeared via Google Alerts: the Collibra Island (to be found at 15°52′52″N 119°46′40″E). Zoomed out greatly in the picture on the right, you can see that the island is located in the Philippines, near Indonesia, Thailand and China.
Collibra Island – zoomed [...]
With this cartoon I illustrate semantics with as little words as possible. The scenario is as follows.
A trading company has an electronic data format about deliveries of goods. A new partner joins the network with a different format. For each of the symbols the data mapper needs to find out what they mean and how [...]