An overview of how the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group uses semantic technologies / solutions for our own organization and for customers. This brief presentation was given at MIT to the Cambridge Semantic Web meetup on October 14, 2008.

Terry Janssen of Lockheed Martin gave a very interesting presentation on Wednesday the 24th at the Enterprise Search Summit West in San Jose. During his talk he discussed some of the technologies that Lockheed employs as a systems integrator to improve search within their own and other enterprises.

A common theme was revealed during his talk that was repeated by in several other presentations and by vendors at the Summit and its sister conference, Taxonomy Bootcamp. Namely, that taxonomies are the key to improving and refining enterprise search.

Hello Synaptica Central visitors and welcome to the inauguration of our informational site to teach about and discuss Dow Jones’ vocabulary and metadata management tool, Synaptica. My name is Jim Sweeney and I am the Product Manager for Synaptica. I have been working with or directly working on this application for nearly the last 10 years and it has been quite the journey considering where Synaptica started and where it is today.