Posts Tagged ‘Uche Ogbuji’
The Library of Congress will hold the annual Digital Preservation Partners Meeting July 20 – 22, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Themes include “Collaboratives”, “Information Environment” and “Expanding the Archive”. A half day workshop will be held on Recollection, a project with the U.S. Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Partner Program (NDIIPP) designed to enhance discoverable access for NDIIPP collections, making them easier to find, access, and share, and especially to integrate with other digital information sources. Zepheira has worked in partnership with the Library since 2009 to design and build the Recollection platform.
Building on activity undertaken during the recent Akara project sprint, developers pushed an update to the two main packages which the project comprises, in particular:
Amara XML and data toolkit 2.0a4
Akara 2.0a1, a framework for RESTful data services
These releases focus on quality and performance.
Akara 2.0 is an open-source (Apache2 license) Web framework specialized for RESTful data services, especially involving XML and other semi-structured formats. Akara is a tool for data architects and developers who express data models and create transforms based on these data models, plugging required inputs and outputs (XML, JSON, CSV, Atom, etc.) together into pipelines which implement the desired services. These services are made available on the Web using simple wrappers based on REST concepts, among other things making it easy to discover and reuse the services, and to connect them to local and remote systems using Web triggers (AKA Web hooks). Read more
Zepheira Partners David Wood, Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji announce a Call for Chapters for a new book to be entitled Linking Enterprise Data. The book will be published by Springer Science+Business Media. First proposal submissions are due January 31, 2010 and full chapter submissions are due April 2, 2010 to david+led@zepheira.com.
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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
Zepheira team members James Leigh (contractor), David Wood and David Feeney and customer Gene Oates have had a paper accepted for the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies. The paper, entitled A Semantic Object-Oriented Rules Approach for Trusted B2B Exchange, will be presented in Orlando, Florida during July 13-16 2009 and published in the subsequent conference proceedings.
The Spring 2009 issue of PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Technology Forecast focuses on semantic technology. It features an interview with Zepheira partner Uche Ogbuji and highlights Zepheira’s overall contributions. In the interview, ‘From folksonomies to ontologies’, Mr. Ogbuji discusses how early adopters are introducing Semantic Web to the enterprise, ‘[describing] department-level Linked Data initiatives and how grassroots efforts can lead to companywide successes’. He focuses on the balance of technical and social matters within the firewall, and overall on pragmatics rather than technological purity.
SemTech 2009 is the premier semantic technologies event held in San Jose CA the week of June 15, 2009. SemTech 2009 is where the industry comes together for four days of tutorials, workshops and talks on the future of the Web, marketing, search and discovery. Tracks for Web developers, business managers and VCs are offered including: Data Integration and Mashups, Linked Data, Semantic Integration, and Semantic SOA.
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is an effort funded by the US Library of Congress to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content for current and future generations. It is based on an understanding that digital stewardship on a national scale depends on active cooperation between communities in public and private sectors. The Library has built a preservation network of over 130 partners from across the nation to tackle the challenge, and is working with them on a wide spectrum of initiatives including collections of historical, scientific, cartographical, media, legislative and sociological materials.
Laura Campbell, chief information officer of the US Library of Congress, is featured in “Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot”, a segment on the CBS Sunday Morning television program, March 1, 2009. In the program David Pogue reported on the dangers of data loss–”what happens when technological progress leaves your most precious memories and recordings behind.” He also interviewed experts on digital preservation, including the discussion with Campbell, regarding the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.