Scholarz.net helping researchers

"scholarz.net is an online-software for better research and academic writing. It offers reference management, knowledge organisation, social knowledge and research community"

The company was started off as a project at University of Wuerzburg

Bibliographic Ontology

Image via WikipediaFrom the people of Zitgist here comes Bibliographic Ontology 1.0

"The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web."

The use of these kind of applications will create "smarter content" in STM publishing

Knowledge Management Challanges within Corporations

It's not surprise that one of the main problems faced in the corporations is to manage and locate the knowledge within the company. Henry Story from Sun highlights 3 main problems:

"Large companies such as Sun Microsystems have a number of knowledge management needs. Plain text search engines can help find documents by searching through keywords in document content. The problem is that

1. This can return a huge number of documents
2. The keywords the user is thinking of may not be the right ones
3. The things searched for may not be text documents – they could be pictures, people or things"

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One of the solutions that he is proposing is tagging and wiki implementation within the corporate wall. No wonder why IBM also is diving into this arena.