Posts Tagged ‘Freemix’
On 20 July 2010 in Arlington VA, Library of Congress held a Recollection workshop at the Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. The well-attended workshop featured an introduction to the digital preservation and access platform and a session where attendees could build Web applications with their own data within 30 minutes, and could showcase these to other workshop participants. Zepheira was in attendance as the developer of the Recollection platform and supporter of NDIIPP.
On 20 July 2010 in Arlington VA, Library of Congress held a Recollectionworkshop at the Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. Thewell-attended workshop featured an introduction to the digitalpreservation and access platform and a session where attendees couldbuild Web applications with their own data within 30 minutes, and couldshowcase these to other workshop participants. Zepheira was inattendance as the developer of the Recollection platform and supporter of NDIIPP.
The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure andPreservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy tocollect, preserve and make available significant digital content,especially information that is created in digital form only, for currentand future generations. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared contentthrough a simple web page. In order to explore more useful tools andprocesses for sharing diverse content across partners? collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira todevelop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and exploreinformation about digital collections.
Government Computer News (GCN) has named the Library of Congress (LoC) National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) as one of the top federal information technology projects of 2009. The award was presented during the annual GCN Annual Awards Gala on October 22.
GCN gave the award to NDIIPP because of its success in working with universities and libraries to model distributed preservation practices, working with state consortiums to help in the preservation of state government digital information, and working with commercial content providers to develop standards for digital preservation. Read more
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira will co-present a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009. The general theme of this year’s conference is “Digital Societies”. Read more
The Semantic Technology Conference is the premier semantic technologies event held every year in June in San Jose CA. SemTech is the place where the industry comes together for four days of tutorials, workshops and talks on the future of the Web, marketing, search and discovery. The event is run by Wilshire Conferences which has a reputation of running some of the best conferences in the industry related to the trends in data management and associated technologies. Another Wilshire conference to look for each year is Enterprise Data World. Read more
Leigh Dodds performs an evaluation of the new Freemix service launched by Zepheira in June. Leigh found Freemix to be one of the most interesting applications shown at SemTech 2009 and he was curious to know whether Freemix could be used to build presentations of Linked Data.
To perform this experiment, he feeds both BBC data and NASA space flight data to Freemix from the Talis Platform. He explores the options for extracting data using a SPARQL query in order to build a presentation in Freemix.
The result? “It turns out its really easy.” Leigh’s Talis blog shows the results of this step by step evaluation.
Zepheira is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Freemix, a social networking site for data and the people who use it. Freemix will be officially launched at the Semantic Technologies Conference in San Jose, California on June 16, 2009.
Zepheira’s CEO Bernadette Hyland and David Wood, Partner, will brief representatives of the press at 12:00 US Pacific Time in the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Zepheira will demonstrate Freemix at booth #108 on the SemTech 2009 exhibit floor. Read more
A new semantic web technology platform that enables data collaboration via the Web. Freemix is a free social networking site for wrapping, exposing and sharing data. This invitational beta allows you to rapidly upload data, visualize and share it on the Web, providing quantum leaps in speed, efficiencies and cost reduction in comparison to traditional data management strategies. Read more