Michael Lang's blog

We just finished the first release of BioBIG, http://knoodl.com/ui/groups/BioBIG, and it is pretty impressive capability to analyze highly distributed collections of data of widely varying formats (relational, spreadsheets, files, RDF, ect) that pertain to pharmacological research. Just accomplishing this is somewhat paradigm shifting. It was actually surprising to me that it worked, and we build the software that makes it work.

We have been wrestling with the problem of naming conventions for "things" ever since the days at our previous company, MetaMatrix.  We have found it is not workable to use something whose purpose is to be a unique identifier (IRI) as a name.

Stephen Wolfram recently posted a blog titled "A .data Top-Level Internet Domain?".  In the article, he suggests that defining a .data top-level domain (i.e. .com, .org, etc.) would enable people to more effectively use the web for managing data.

Amir Halfon has written an excellent blog on dealing with the variety of data structures in a big data space - http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?blogID=6129 .

The Federated Enterprise (Using Semantic Technology Standards to Federate Information and to Enable Emergent Analytics) appears today on semanticweb.com.

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Revelytix a subcontract to implement semantic technology for a data integration and analytics project.

Revelytix is developing a collection of ontologies and software components that will be used to employ W3C standards RDF, OWL and SPARQL to integrate large numbers of disparate information systems and then provide analytic capabilities across the federated information content.