The mythical unstructured data!

As semantic web and big data integration gaining its fus-ro-dah, enterprises are finding a way to harness any available form of information swarming the web and the world

I came across some interesting artcles which gives a concise idea of harnessing metadata from unstructured data....

Lee Dallas says

In some respects it is analogous to hieroglyphics where pictographs carry abstract meaning.  The data may not be easily interpretable by machines but document recognition and capture technologies improve daily. The fact that an error rate still exists in recognition does not mean that the content lacks structure.  Simply that the form it takes is too complex for simple processes to understand.

more here : http://bigmenoncontent.com/2010/09/21/the-myth-of-unstructured-data/

Ram Subramanyam Gopalan says

A lot of data growth is happening around these so-called unstructured data types. Enterprises which manage to automate the collection, organization and analysis of these data types, will derive competitive advantage.
Every data element does mean something, though what it means may not always be relevant for you.

more here : http://bigdataintegration.blogspot.in/2012/02/unstructured-data-is-myth.html

 

 

Web 3.0 A case study part -1

While I was with TeamTa , a case study on Web 3.0 was made. It was really a wonderful experience for me as I was able to learn a lot about the emerging technologies. Atleast I came to know that how vast emerging web is the potential of web of entertainment to defense purposes.It is like another universe in which it has its own economy, culture,society,technology etc.. I tried to read as much as I can... yes it was really vast , infinite potential.Many research papers, many articles, many magazines... I know I am good at research.I was able to understand concisely. I am not expert in all these buzzword technologies ... I think one need not be working in high end technologies, but can learn about it and share it or use the idea in some other field.Internet did open human minds around the globe.Anyway I was able to understand and express the way I got it... I decided to open it and share it to world as its an interesting one... so someone somewhere will read it comment about it. As time pass by I will be able to review on the past works I have done.Anyway this blog was made for that purpose.View my case study.

web 3.0 part1

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The breadcrumb folk tale and intelligent user interfaces

In the old German folk tale of Hansel and Gritel the two young children attempt to mark their trail by leaving breadcrumbs on their path as they walk through a forest. In information architecture, especially interface design or GUIs, breadcrumb refers to some sort of visual path that allows the user to see where they are in the interface and to retrace their steps if needed.The technology is called hyperlink connecting Univeral Resource Identifiers.Its the human psychology to virtually traverse through his thoughts on sorting out the infomration he needs.The words in the mind-space is connected through the virtual links tracing the inner thoughts in the process of the data quest.The cliche information at the tip of fingers ... The links in the web page you see in the browser are the virtual representation of information deep down in the cyberspace.Are we entering a metaphysical psyche warp of our mind through these portals? :P

A psychology paper from the University of Wichita shows that using the breadcrumbs in the model tends the users to use these shortcuts more .This is definitely a good approach to define the related entities and the users will be able to navigate through the huge data in web.Is it possible for an intelligence in web, some mention it as collective intelligence, converse to user using this tool of navigation?


As semantic technologies will become more prominent in near future internet information architecture,the user interfaces to communicate this collective intelligence effectively to user are expected to be simple and elegant.May be the touch screens and 3D interfaces will provide an immersive user interaction.What will the fastest way of traversal?

An old Buddhist monk revealed to his disciple that mind is the fastest traveler in this universe.. Will the future interfaces catch up with lightning speed of mind? We can expect warp holes in our web pages ? Will there be information teleporters on our desktops ( that sucks!)? Even hyper links are based on these ideologies .. may that will suffice.. The problem is we choose the path now ...

Ha there I saw an old paper describing about AI based interfaces.It says

Most researchers would agree that a system that can maintain a human dialogue would be considered intelligent (remember the Turing test?). The problem is that there are a lot of interfaces that we would consider intelligent, that do not look "human" in any sense at all. An example is the PUSH interface , which presents hypertext in a manner that is adapted to the user's current task. The system is controlled mainly through direct manipulation, but the output consists of a text where certain pieces of the text are "hidden" from view, to give a comprehensive overview of the pieces of text that are most relevant to the user in his or her current task. This very passive form of user adaptation does not in any way mimic human behaviour, but is constructed to be a natural extension of the hypertext view of information.

I like playing computer games.In games the interface , or the protagonists goals can be changed by the AI of the game as per the user interaction.I will say thats what happening in web.The information we seek will be based on the understandings made by a collective intelligence in the web.Suppose you want travel to a place during your vacation.. what if the application itself choose the best destination,information about it , the room,the flight ,the travelers tools.. so on to be displayed in the browser within a second..? Sounds cool even if you are your way back home with your personal intelligent assistant (possibly a future iphone !)See this movie made by Apple in 1980s , a film short that also imagines a future of computing via intelligent agents a long way back internet blips occurred. Link

In future choice wont be yours..

A pretty pass time on competency management and ontology

I happened to read about competency management systems (CMS) and some researches going on it.Just curious about the how they are made and all.. Why we need as CMS ? Whats competence ? Read In large organizations human beings as skilled resources are managed using HRMS tools in an effective manner so that maximum productivity can be achieved....

I have read that in armies the skilled men are selectively recruited to complete mission critical tasks. In a super industrial society the human workers are picked as components and assembled as a team and the task is executed.After that , they are dispersed and combined with others.The process go on.This happens commonly in big software companies.So the softwares like CMS used to manage people in a company or team, for manageability and efficiency (mostly quantifiable).This is mainly because the world is entirely a knowledge economy.So knowledge management is the essential factor in any sector.The employees are to be trained very well on the desired competencies.The gapping skills have to be filled.The information about people,process,products and all resources has to be managed.
The companies do involve business process and related information works.Software companies do have people like domain experts,subject matter experts,developers,managers etc Knowledge management (KM) combines tools and technologies to provide support to the capture, access, reuse and dissemination of knowledge, generating benefits for the organization and their members.The skills of employees need to be updated as technology is becoming advanced day by day due the fast and wide distribution of information.As new generation internet technologies and concepts like web 2.0, social tools etc did make things more advancing beyond our imagination.I found that NASA uses CMS for managing the skills of their work force.I tried searching on net again.Then I learned that ontology based relationships (or rule based systems) can define the model for competency.One can build frameworks that allows them to build shareable ontologies and knowledge bases represented with Semantic Web Languages and to develop Competency-Based Web Services dedicated to Human Resource Management.A simple ontology look like this -Pretty n00b .. i think .. :D
I think it basically a research subject and for more complex scenarios more complex systems will be evolved .Thats what I understood.World is too competitive!!

Links for the interested :
http://www.ontology-advisory.org/
http://www.successfactors.com/
http://professional-learning.eu/overview
Papers i found here here

Good pass time..