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Clearwell expanding as legal discovery fuels fast document search | VentureBeat
Clearwell has hit its stride as a provider of eDiscovery services. The company provides a way to search through terabytes of emails, company records, and other data to narrow down a legal search to whatever documents are most relevant to its case.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company first launched its service in 2006, but now has released its fifth version and is hiring a bunch of engineers to expand its offerings. Clearwell plans to expand from 100 employees to more than 200 in the coming year.
The NeuroCommons Project: Open RDF Ontologies for Scientific Reseach
The NeuroCommons project seeks to make all scientific research materials - research articles, annotations, data, physical materials - as available and as useable as they can be. This is done by fostering practices that render information in a form that promotes uniform access by computational agents - sometimes called "interoperability". Semantic Web practices based on RDF will enable knowledge sources to combine meaningfully, semantically precise queries that span multiple information sources.<br><br>
Working with the Creative Commons group that sponsors "Neurocommons", Microsoft has developed and released an open source "ontology" add-on for Microsoft Word. The add-on makes use of MSOffice XML panel, Open XML formats, and proprietary "Smart Tags". Microsoft is also making the source code for both the Ontology Add-in for Office Word 2007 and the Creative Commons Add-in for Office Word 2007 tool available under the Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) at http://ucsdbiolit.codeplex.com and http://ccaddin2007.codeplex.com,respectively.<br><br>
No doubt it will take some digging to figure out what is going on here. Microsoft WPF technologies include Smart Tags and LINQ. The Creative Commons "Neurocommons" ontology work is based on W3C RDF and SPARQL. How these opposing technologies interoperate with legacy MSOffice 2003 and 2007 desktops is an interesting question. One that may hold the answer to the larger problem of re-purposing MSOffice for the Open Web? <br><br>
We know Microsoft is re-purposing MSOffice for the MS Web. Perhaps this work with Creative Commons will help to open up the Microsoft desktop productivity environment to the Open Web? One can always hope :)<br><br>
Dr Dobbs has the Microsoft - Creative Commons announcement; <a href="http://www.ddj.com/windows/215802114">Microsoft Releases Open Tools for Scientific Research ...... Joins Creative Commons in releasing the Ontology Add-in</a>
Why Google Isn't Enough - Forbes.com
One key refrain that expresses this trend is heard in companies around the world: "Why can't we have a Google inside the four walls of our company?" While at first this seems like a good idea, the problem of using search inside a company is much more complicated than just indexing documents, throwing up a search box and asking people if they feel lucky.
This week, JargonSpy explores just what "enterprise search" means and why it is a complicated challenge that is becoming increasingly urgent for most companies to solve.
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There are three key ways that successful implementations of enterprise search differ from the search we use on the Web: richer user interfaces, business process context and heterogeneous content.
ongoing · Purple Pilcrows
First of all, I modified the approach by replacing # with ¶ per the suggestion of another Simon. Whereas # suggests Web anchors, it only suggests that to Web hacks, while ¶ has a long typographical history as a paragraph marker. Plus, it’s kind of pretty and it’s officially called a Pilcrow, which you gotta love. Now that the anchor is so evanescent, I wonder if it might work in a shade slightly less ethereally pale. ¶
The Wizard of ODF: How ODF broke the semantic web and ran off iwth RDF/XML
As for Mark's concerns: yes, if RDFa could be used, that would be even better, because it would reduce the number of overlapping serializations and would therefore help in a quicker integration of ODF metadata into the SW world. It would be good _if_ it is possible and meets the constraints that ODF has. At this point, the obvious question and comment is: what can be done to help improve this? There are some (probably solvable) technical issues; and there are also 'social', ie, the 'how to do it?', 'where and how to comment?' part. I think Elias' and Bruce's advise on that would be really welcome. We can then try to take it from there...
» Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access
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Great explanation of the Semantic Web, RDF, SparQL versus big vendor Web API's
- garyedwards on 2007-06-08
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the general idea is for there to be a layer of data on the Internet that he calls the “data bus” and the way the data bus works is not too different from how we’ve heard Microsoft’s WinFS filesystem described where connectivity between related data items is organic rather than synthesized. For example, whereas today, a mashup developer may have to call upon two APIs to show where a specific Starbucks is on a map, the Semantic Web approach might involve little more than a simple query of that data bus using a query technology called SparQL.
What is RDF and what is it good for?
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On the Semantic Web, computers do the browsing for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. To use an analogy, the current Web is a decentralized platform for distributed presentations while the SemWeb is a decentralized platform for distributed knowledge. RDF is the W3C standard for encoding knowledge.
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