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Many believe that Tim Berners-Lee's semantic Web vision may never be a reality, but such products as Semagix's Freedom and Digital Harbor's PiiE could help the semantic Web provide the desired ability to relate items on the Web explicitly, rather than simply by co-occurrence of words. Freedom, an application toolkit, assists developers in creating and building on a domain-specific ontology. PiiE (Professional Interactive Information Environment) is now a business ontology, and Digital Harbor Fusion Server assists developers in defining terms and relationships, populating the framework with structured data, and attaching unstructured data to it. Semagix and Digital Harbor both focus on fusion of ontology and data to allow users to link. An example of the use of Semagix could be an anti-money-laundering application in which the ontology is taken from authoritative information from Dun & Bradstreet and Hoover's about people and companies. In such a framework, automatic classifiers read unstructured documents, including e-mail, news feeds, and Web pages, and attaches them to the framework. Therefore, answers to questions regarding news sources mentioning companies that share the same directors can be obtained. Some caveats are highlighted, including the fact that individuals might have to pay to update their own information.
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Information Sources, Inc.
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