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Usage of Social Networking, Collaboration High in Government
Maybe you thought social networking and collaboration tools were only for the enterprise. A new study shows, however, that their use in government is also fairly high. How Government Uses Social Networking Saba, a company that specializes in people management software, and HCI (the Human Capital Institute), performed a
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RDF Automation Ushering in Semantic Web
Researchers with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have thrown themselves head over heels into the semantic web. At this year's 8th International Semantic Web Conference, they presented a paper (download the PDF ) focused on the problem of automatically generating the metadata that many semantic web functionalities rely
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Department of Defense (DoD) Memo Highlights Strategic Advantages of Open Source
With the current U.S. administration being tech-savvy and promising transparency, many in the open source community have been hoping to get more visibility and traction in the government's procurement cycles. It looks like the U.S. Department of Defense might have noticed -- or at least has decided to catch up
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Linked Data on the Web - Becoming Reality in the UK
These days the UK government seems unusually savvy when it comes to technology, open source and open standards. Now they've embraced another open movement, that of open data. And they've appointed Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, to help.
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Hannon Hill Updates Web CMS to v6.2, Improvements Aplenty
Hannon Hill (news, site) keeps tinkering away with its Cascade Server v6.x Web CMS, which today was released as v6.2. After only a month of testing Cascade Server 6.2 Beta, which was released on June 9th, the official release of v6.
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CIA Invests in Open Source Lucene, Solr Search
Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency is among 18 U.S. Intelligence organizations to benefit from the Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search technology. In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s VC arm, has announced its investment into Lucid Imagination, a commercial provider of open source search technologies.
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UK Government Backs Open Source
The government of the United Kingdom stated in 2004 that its policy was to "seek to use open source where it gave the best value for money to the taxpayer in delivering public services." In 2009, the UK government has decided to increase the pace of open source adoption.
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Event: Gartner InFocus Day: Government
For those of you in the Washington, D.C. area, on Wednesday, June 4 Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company, presents Gartner InFocus Day: Government. Spend a full day exploring enterprise change strategies designed to help you drive change specific to your environment.
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Government Websites Must Focus
Government websites must specialize and deliver better services to specific audiences, not try to be everything to everybody.A number of years ago, I did some work with a department of education. It was reviewing its web strategy and had come to a decision. In its new version, it would not
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