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Webnodes AS Launches Version 4.0 of Semantic CMS

Angela Guess — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:30:04 +0000

According to Webnodes AS, the company has announce a new version of their semantic CMS. The release has “significant performance and scalability improvements, overhaul of the e-mail marketing module, a video provider system and a number of improvements to the content editing experience for editors. The performance and scalability of Webnodes CMS has been significantly improved since the last release. The efforts have been focused in two mains areas: increasing the number of content objects the system can comfortably handle, and raw performance of servicing a particular page request. Webnodes now works very well with more than 10 million content objects, and performance has been improved in a number of areas. We’ve seen live Webnodes sites improving the server side time with up to 300% with the improvements in this release.” continued…

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Dynamic Semantic Publishing for Beginners, Part 3

Kristen Milhollin — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:00:37 +0000

Even as semantic web concepts and tools are underpinning revolutionary changes in the way we discover and consume information, people with even a casual interest in the semantic web have difficulty understanding how and why this is happening. One of the most exciting application areas for semantic technologies is online publishing, although for thousands of small-to-medium sized publishers, unfamiliar semantic concepts are too intimidating to grasp the relevance of these technologies. This three-part series is part of my own journey to better understand how semantic technologies are changing the landscape for publishers of news and information. Read Part 2.

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So far we’ve looked at the “cutting edge” of dynamic semantic publishing (BBC Olympics) and we’ve seen what tools large publishers such as the New York Times, Associated Press, and Agence France Press are using to semantically annotate their content.

And we’ve learned how semantic systems help publishers “Do More With Less”- that is, automate a lot of the work organizing content and identifying key concepts, entities, and subjects- and “Do More With More” – combine their content with related linked open data and present it in different contexts.

You may still be asking at this point, “What makes this so novel and cool? We know that semantic tools save time and resources. And some people say semantic publishing is about search optimization, especially after the arrival of Google’s Knowledge Graph. But the implications of semantic publishing are about oh so much more than search. What semantic systems are really designed for, to use the phrase attributed to Don Turnbull, is “information discovery” and, if semantic standards and tools are widely adopted in the publishing world, this could have huge implications for content and data syndication.

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Dynamic Semantic Publishing for News Organizations

Kristen Milhollin — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:58:09 +0000

Paul Wilton was Technical and development lead for semantic publishing at BBC News and Sport Online during the 2010 World Cup. Currently he is the Technical architect at Ontoba. In this interview, a supplement to “Dynamic Semantic Publishing for Beginners”, Paul describes the current landscape for DSP as it applies to news organizations.

Q. Are you seeing a wide disparity in the way that news organizations have approached the creation and use of semantically-linked (or annotated) content?

A. Actually the pattern and often the (general) technical architecture is surprisingly similar. Where things differ are the applications, models used and instance data. This is undoubtedly bleeding edge technology, and typically the impetus to begin investigating the use of linked data, RDF and semantics in the technology stack has come from within the Information Architecture and R&D teams, not from the offices of the CTO/CIO. Maybe this is starting to change now.

Q. Do many news organizations have the resources (staff and/or Content Management Systems) that are able to publish and use semantic data?

A. Not in our experience, but this shouldn’t be a barrier to integrating semantic technologies and publishing linked data.

The key components to adopting semantic publishing – a semantic repository (triple store); appropriate linked data sets; and the ability to semantically annotate your content – can be built alongside an existing Content Management System. continued…

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OpenMenu Serves Up Structured Data Standards For the Restaurant Industry

Jennifer Zaino — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:57:51 +0000

What’s on the markup menu for the restaurant industry?

Among the schema.org tags for marking up web pages is one for restaurants, which includes item properties for priceRange, servesCuisine, place, and menu, among others. Restaurants that use the markup language to structure their data are promised search engine optimization (SEO) benefits when hungry consumers want to see what’s on the menu at moderately-priced nearby Italian eateries, for example. They might also or alternately use the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce to better accommodate search engines, as well as mobile and desktop apps, with service details of hours, payment options, and daily menus that are accessible in up to 50 languages.

OpenMenu has a value proposition around structured data for restaurant owners, too: Providing increased exposure to Internet, mobile and web apps, via what it aims to be a global and open standard for storing, sharing and using their menus over the Internet. The technical details are described at its OpenMenu.org site. Initially launched in 2010, it recently updated the format to Version 1.6 and currently counts about 75,000 menus as part of its landscape – 5,000 of them actively maintained and growing at a couple of thousand a week, according to CEO and founder Chris Hanscom.

Third-party developers can harness the data too, to build applications that interact with menus, like OpenMenu Search, a way for a search engine to drill down through a restaurant’s information to the menu and menu items.

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Webnodes Announces New Version of Semantic CMS

Angela Guess — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:00:43 +0000

Webnodes recently announced the release of version 3.8 of the company’s CMS with semantic e-commerce, MVC support, and new mobile features. The article states, “ASP.NET MVC (version 3) has become a very popular method for developing web sites and applications on the .Net platform. With this release of Webnodes CMS, templates can now be developed using MVC. Webforms and MVC are equally supported for template development in Webnodes, and both will continue to be supported in the future. You can also mix the two types in the same project.” continued…

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Webcast: Supercharge Magnolia CMS with Semantic Technology by salsaDev

Eric Franzon — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:34:26 +0000

On Wednesday, February 28, 2012, enterprise search company, SalsaDev, and CMS platform Magnolia-CMS will broadcast a live Webinar (Registration required) discussing how SalsaDev adds semantic capability to the Magnolia CMS. According to the organizers, “Software that understands content makes a CMS significantly more valuable. Due to automated reasoning, no more manual work will be needed, for example by content authors to display related content. Website visitors will benefit from context-aware search that yields the best results from vast amounts of content. By combining Magnolia CMS with salsaDev’s technology, users save time and maximize the value of content.”

Participants will learn:

How to quickly install and configure the searchBox solution for Magnolia CMS
How to customize the searchBox integration and ensure high performance
Typical scenarios and the business benefits of semantic search technology

The hosts continue, “This Webinar is extremely useful for CMS developers of all levels, as well as decision makers interested in deploying a semantic CMS.”

Details

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 PM – 5.00 PM Central European Time (CET)
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST)

NOTE: Eric Franzon will participate in a Q&A panel following the demo.

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Smartlogic Highlights Content Intelligence Over Enterprise Semantics

Jennifer Zaino — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:20:06 +0000

Smartlogic recently released a new version of its Semaphore software, which took home the 2011 European Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award. Version 3.3 adds new semantically-rich features, but the company itself has been shifting its strategy to talk about its solution less as the enterprise semantic platform and more as a content intelligence platform for identifying, classifying, extracting, analyzing and utilizing hard-to-find information from among unstructured assets in existing information management systems like Microsoft SharePoint.

Why? According to marketing VP Maya Natarajan, it’s an in to better customer access. “Whenever you think of the word semantic, there’s such a small percentage of the population that understands what it is,” she says. “But amazingly the uptake for content intelligence is so great. People immediately understand that so much quicker” — that is, she says, that content intelligence describes all the business reasons and benefits for deploying an enterprise semantic platform.

Another way to make the virtues of content intelligence even more obvious: Smartlogic is planning to introduce prebuilt starter taxonomies to kickstart the process in some vertical sectors. Meanwhile, Version 3.3 has brought to its customers features that still proclaim its semantic heritage, including a semantic visualization tool.

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Is Your Business Ready for the Semantic Web?

Jennifer Zaino — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:27:19 +0000

What makes a business ripe to adopt semantic web technologies? Those engaged in cross-enterprise business processes, in particular where models based on web technologies drive greater collaboration and increased dynamism, are on the list, says Professor Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web chair at the institute of computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin and head of the InnoProfile project Corporate Semantic Web.

“That is motivation to apply semantic web technologies because you no longer are working in closed walls where you build your own schema and database model, but you need a flexible semantic model that easily integrates with others,” says Paschke.

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Webnodes Launches New Version of CMS with schema.org Support

Angela Guess — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:00:45 +0000

Webnodes AS has announced version 3.7 of their content management system with schema.org support. According to the article, “With this release, Webnodes is the world’s first CMS with fully integrated and dynamic Schema.org support. This means that all content classes and properties in Webnodes can be mapped to corresponding types and properties in Schema.org dynamically.” continued…

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Improving the CMS with Semantic Technology

Angela Guess — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:30:36 +0000

Janus Boye recently shared a presentation on how semantic technologies can help content management system customers better benefit from their data. Boye states, “Today there are probably 1,000+ content management systems in use in the European Union. Very few of these are using semantics-based technologies, which holds the promise to substantially improve employee productivity and how we use our skills online.” continued…

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Contest Offers Big Money for Semantic Web Apps

Angela Guess — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:00:06 +0000

A new article reports that “Open source community Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) is offering five large lumps of investment in a contest to design a semantic web app. IKS is a project partly funded by the EU that works on building an open technology platform that integrates with CMSes to deliver semantic web functionality. Finished integrations already exist for some of the big CMSes, including WordPress, Drupal Nuxeo, Confluence, and Alfresco.” continued…

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An RDF based Permissions Model

Kurt Cagle — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:00:47 +0000

One of the primary challenges in putting together a good content management system is building a decent permissions model. Whether a particular user or process is able to perform some kind of an action upon a resource or not can be remarkably difficult to establish, especially when there are multiple constraints involved. For an XML-based CMS, this can be even more of a challenge, because the n-dimensional nature of such a constraint model is often difficult to model in hierarchical structures.

However, RDF is far more ideally suited for this particular role. A permissions system is, at its core, a set of assertions about who can do what to what, which fits nicely with the “subject predicate object” model that RDF exemplifies. Moreover, because such models are sparse — the number of assertions is likely to be very small compared to the total potential assertions that are possible — this fits nicely into models where sparseness of data is a common characteristic (again, RDF), as compared to storing this information (expensively) in tabular fields as with a relational database.

I’m working on building an XML-based CMS (specifically on a MarkLogic platform, though I would like to keep it portable), and realized as I was working on it that while the user permissions system that MarkLogic employs is powerful, it’s not portable and there are facets that don’t fit nicely into that particular model. Thus, I decided to chase the RDF triples approach to see if that would work better for this. (The end product may very well be a hybrid approach to take advantage of fast queries, but that’s beyond the scope of this particular article).

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Is the Publishing Industry Ready to Embrace Change? Find Out At The Semantic Web Media Summit

Jennifer Zaino — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:23:14 +0000

The publishing industry is an interesting beast: Its front-end moves rapidly to get content out to readers, but its back-end processes to deliver that information are so tightly packed that there’s not a lot of drive to make sweeping changes in those technologies or processes.

“They have to be on this schedule, so traditionally they have been slow to change their operations,” says Rachel Lovinger, associate experience director at interactive agency Razorfish. At next week’s Semantic Web Media Summit taking place in New York City, Lovinger will be among the speakers discussing topics such as whether the industry’s tolerance for change is growing, given its need to find more innovative ways both to reach audiences and be more profitable.

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Semantic Technology: It’s All About The Business

Jennifer Zaino — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:14:51 +0000

The opening keynote sessions at SemTech this week made one thing abundantly clear: Semantic technology is for business, and it’s time to start putting it in practice there.

“Semantics is a game changer in the B-to-C model,” said Bill Guinn, CTO Product Enablers, Amdocs Product Business Unit. The company’s focus is on delivering customer care and experience systems in the telco space, but Guinn’s address was centered on “applying semantics in any situation that involves complex and recurring relationships between business and consumers,” with the aim of improving revenue, reducing costs, and retaining customers.

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Yolink’s New PlugIn Aims To Make WordPress Search Better

Jennifer Zaino — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:19:31 +0000

WordPress is the most popular CMS on the planet (1 million downloads a week)– but what isn’t as popular is its native Search function, with limitations that include results being sorted by date rather than relevance and few if any advanced search options. Filling in the gap for many WordPress blogs have been options such as Google Custom Search, which improves relevancy of returns based on the original keyword search, but also delivers ads – a feature that isn’t without advantages but also may not be appropriate for the tone of a site.

Tigerlogic, which last year reset its yolink business to focus on search API territory, now has built in conjunction with WordPress hosting outfitWPEngine a search product specifically for the WordPress platform based on its API.

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