When wiki-based software guide ITerating launched earlier this year, the plan was simple: Create an editable directory of open source, commercial, and hosted software. Visitors use the site to research products, read and write consumer reviews, and compare features to make informed purchasing decisions. Now ITerating has added a unique feature to help make sure system administrators never miss an important patch or version update again.
Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of ITerating, says soon after the Web site launched, it became apparent that users wanted -- and needed -- a way to track current information about the software that is important to them. Tracking activity at hundreds of vendor Web sites on a regular basis just isn't feasible for a busy IT professional and developers at ITerating knew there had to be a better way. ITerating decided the answer was to develop a Web service that would connect to wide range of repositories and archives to look for the information automatically. To create this service, they worked with leaders of the Semantic Web community to combine several existing ontologies into a comprehensive vocabulary structure that powers the data collection. The result is a service that monitors over 17,000 software products for updates and patches.
Typically, applications check for updates on their own by connecting to a vendor Web site periodically and downloading whatever is new since the last check. Some apps, however, require users to watch for update notifications via email or the Web site, and it's easy for system administrators managing dozens or hundreds of apps to miss a critical patch.
With ITerating's new service, users simply subscribe for free to a product or category, and the site will notify you when a patch, update, or new version of your software is available.Currently users can subscribe by using an RDF reader but RSS feed capability is expected shortly.
"When we started the site, we decided to make it a wiki," says Vandenberghe. "Although people can add their own information, we assumed the bulk of the information would come from electronic import and that much of it should be automated, like feeds that people can subscribe to. We knew we needed [the service] not only for us, but the industry also needed it. Now we've built a foundation for updates using Semantic Web services, which lets the automated data services speak the same language, and combined it with the wiki format. We want to -- and can -- offer a software product guide that's always up-to-date."
By: Lisa Hoover
Source: http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/26639
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Saltlux Inc. earned GS Certification for Search 2.0 Platform.
Saltlux Inc (http://in2.saltlux.com), leader in Search 2.0 and semantic web technology market, announced that the GS(Good Software) Certification was given to its [IN2]DOR 4.0, the service oriented intelligent search platform on August 23rd.
GS Certification is one of the official certification that is given to good locally developed software for software quality improvement after a rigid tests and inspections on various evaluation items such as functionality, credibility and standard suitability by Korean Telecommunication Technology Association (TTA) since 2001.
[IN2]DOR 4.0 of Saltlux Inc. being search 2.0 based search platform provides reliable search results through application of automatic classification, automatic summarization and automatic clustering based on the text mining technology and semantic web technology. It significantly enhances the developmental productivity and utility of differentiated information service system and secures economic efficiency and scalability of the system through recycling of the service components. It also maximizes the service utilization through connection with Open API and Mash-up.
Because of the embedded intelligent search function for large capacity semantic based search and reasoning, accurate retrieval and intelligent search will be possible through semantic metadata attached to the contents. Search quality may be continuously enhanced through user involvement and automatic rank control function.
Because of the embedded automatic translation and summarization functions of Japanese, English in addition to Korean language, Search 2.0 Platform [IN2]DOR 4.0 enables the concurrent indexing in one index, and provides cross language search function that retrieves the target foreign documents when the query was in another language.Tony (Kyung-il) Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. said, “IT market and environment has been changed by new technologies and paradigm such as web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and semantic web. And these environmental changes support the growth of the search 2.0 industry through needs and expectations on the new search system. He continued, “Saltlux power of technology has been approved again by this GS Certification, and we will be the global leader in the search 2.0 market of future retrieval service industry.”
GS Certification is one of the official certification that is given to good locally developed software for software quality improvement after a rigid tests and inspections on various evaluation items such as functionality, credibility and standard suitability by Korean Telecommunication Technology Association (TTA) since 2001.
[IN2]DOR 4.0 of Saltlux Inc. being search 2.0 based search platform provides reliable search results through application of automatic classification, automatic summarization and automatic clustering based on the text mining technology and semantic web technology. It significantly enhances the developmental productivity and utility of differentiated information service system and secures economic efficiency and scalability of the system through recycling of the service components. It also maximizes the service utilization through connection with Open API and Mash-up.
Because of the embedded intelligent search function for large capacity semantic based search and reasoning, accurate retrieval and intelligent search will be possible through semantic metadata attached to the contents. Search quality may be continuously enhanced through user involvement and automatic rank control function.
Because of the embedded automatic translation and summarization functions of Japanese, English in addition to Korean language, Search 2.0 Platform [IN2]DOR 4.0 enables the concurrent indexing in one index, and provides cross language search function that retrieves the target foreign documents when the query was in another language.Tony (Kyung-il) Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. said, “IT market and environment has been changed by new technologies and paradigm such as web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and semantic web. And these environmental changes support the growth of the search 2.0 industry through needs and expectations on the new search system. He continued, “Saltlux power of technology has been approved again by this GS Certification, and we will be the global leader in the search 2.0 market of future retrieval service industry.”
Monday, September 10, 2007
ET Club Member Company - Saltlux Story
Saltlux Inc. (http://in2.saltlux.com) is an ET Club Member company specialized in semantic web, the key for the web 2.0 era.
Search 2.0 searches accurate information through clearly catching the meaning of the user query sentence as a new paradigm targeting the intelligent knowledge information search service that is widely and quickly spread together with web 2.0 fever
The right role of the search 2.0 solution is to improve the value of information through the customized information search according to the user preference and collective intelligence. Through the search 2.0 based service, users could receive customized services for result summarization, classification, clustering, analysis and visualization. Through these services users could also be supplied easy to access information, utilization and sharing functions.
Saltlux is proactively preparing the marketing plan in the event of the launch of [IN2]DOR, the search 2.0 based platform reflecting the recent trends. After the Seminar on ‘Search 2.0 Seminar with a New Product Introduction’ on August 29, 2007 marketing team of the company has received may enquired for information on the new product.
Though demonstration Saltlux had the participants exposed to this innovative functions of the product in the seminar.
Saltlux plans to support the significant improvement of development productivity and utility of differentiated information service system through this new product with intelligent information mining and semantic web as key technologies. Saltlux further explains that it secures high economic feasibility and scalability through recycling of the service components.
Saltlux is not a new bourn company but has a 28 year history. It was established in 1976 as a company specialized in technical translation and DTP. Human Language Technology (HLT) Laboratory established in 2000 has worked to build a basement for the search solution in Saltlux. After a long period spent for translation software ‘IN2’ was developed as the first search engines in the company and [IN2]DOR, a platform meeting the needs for the search 2.0 era through continuous R&D activities.
Saltlux pays a great deal of efforts to develop the global market through its off-shore branch and liaison offices in China, Japan, U.S.A and EU.
In addition to Search 2.0 platform, Saltlux is continuously developing ubiquitous oriented intelligent individual media management technology. And Saltlux will be grown up as a knowledge information resource management specialized enterprise that shares and manage the knowledge.
Mr. Kyung-il Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux said, “It was not long ago when the one-man media information ownership became an issue by the key word of web 2.0. But now web 2.0 has been widely spread over the society.” He continued, “Unacquainted web 2.0 spirits became parts of our life via UCC and blogs and Saltlux wants to be the leading company who will supply the key solutions in the information sharing era.
ET News (August 31, 2007)
Search 2.0 searches accurate information through clearly catching the meaning of the user query sentence as a new paradigm targeting the intelligent knowledge information search service that is widely and quickly spread together with web 2.0 fever
The right role of the search 2.0 solution is to improve the value of information through the customized information search according to the user preference and collective intelligence. Through the search 2.0 based service, users could receive customized services for result summarization, classification, clustering, analysis and visualization. Through these services users could also be supplied easy to access information, utilization and sharing functions.
Saltlux is proactively preparing the marketing plan in the event of the launch of [IN2]DOR, the search 2.0 based platform reflecting the recent trends. After the Seminar on ‘Search 2.0 Seminar with a New Product Introduction’ on August 29, 2007 marketing team of the company has received may enquired for information on the new product.
Though demonstration Saltlux had the participants exposed to this innovative functions of the product in the seminar.
Saltlux plans to support the significant improvement of development productivity and utility of differentiated information service system through this new product with intelligent information mining and semantic web as key technologies. Saltlux further explains that it secures high economic feasibility and scalability through recycling of the service components.
Saltlux is not a new bourn company but has a 28 year history. It was established in 1976 as a company specialized in technical translation and DTP. Human Language Technology (HLT) Laboratory established in 2000 has worked to build a basement for the search solution in Saltlux. After a long period spent for translation software ‘IN2’ was developed as the first search engines in the company and [IN2]DOR, a platform meeting the needs for the search 2.0 era through continuous R&D activities.
Saltlux pays a great deal of efforts to develop the global market through its off-shore branch and liaison offices in China, Japan, U.S.A and EU.
In addition to Search 2.0 platform, Saltlux is continuously developing ubiquitous oriented intelligent individual media management technology. And Saltlux will be grown up as a knowledge information resource management specialized enterprise that shares and manage the knowledge.
Mr. Kyung-il Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux said, “It was not long ago when the one-man media information ownership became an issue by the key word of web 2.0. But now web 2.0 has been widely spread over the society.” He continued, “Unacquainted web 2.0 spirits became parts of our life via UCC and blogs and Saltlux wants to be the leading company who will supply the key solutions in the information sharing era.
ET News (August 31, 2007)
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Saltlux Search 2.0 Seminar finished with a great success
Saltlux Inc. (www.saltlux.com) today announced that the Saltlux Search 2.0 Seminar held on August 29 was finished in a great success. Originally the invitations were sent to 100 participants. However, the actual number of participants was over120 from various business entities, I/T business related organizations, multifarious government research and policy making organizations and others including university professors, students, mass communication, etc.
In the seminar the following papers were read by different speakers.
1. Evolution and Development of Search Engines: From Solution to Platform Based Service by Kyungil Tony Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc.
2. Search 2.0 and Web 2.0 by Taesung Albert Ahn, Service Group Team leader, Saltlux.
3. Realization of Semantic Web in Search 2.0 by Kono Kim, Director, Saltlux.
4. Enterprise 2.0 by D. Y. Yum, Search Group Team Leader, Saltlux.
After these paper reading session, [IN2]DOR 4.0 product was introduce and the product performance was demonstrated by J. H. Ahn, Marketing Team Leader At the end of each paper reading session questions were called and discussed on a lively controversy.
Many participants told individually to Saltlux that they enjoyed the seminar and learned and understood what the Search 2.0, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and [IN2]DOR 4.0 product meant to them working in their organization.
On behalf of all the employees of Saltlux Inc., we would like to express our appreciations to every body who participated to the seminar and to every body who contributed to the discussion session at the end of each paper reading session.
Saltlux management would like to wish all the contents of the papers read in the seminar will contribute to the business development of the information search market.
In the seminar the following papers were read by different speakers.
1. Evolution and Development of Search Engines: From Solution to Platform Based Service by Kyungil Tony Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc.
2. Search 2.0 and Web 2.0 by Taesung Albert Ahn, Service Group Team leader, Saltlux.
3. Realization of Semantic Web in Search 2.0 by Kono Kim, Director, Saltlux.
4. Enterprise 2.0 by D. Y. Yum, Search Group Team Leader, Saltlux.
After these paper reading session, [IN2]DOR 4.0 product was introduce and the product performance was demonstrated by J. H. Ahn, Marketing Team Leader At the end of each paper reading session questions were called and discussed on a lively controversy.
Many participants told individually to Saltlux that they enjoyed the seminar and learned and understood what the Search 2.0, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and [IN2]DOR 4.0 product meant to them working in their organization.
On behalf of all the employees of Saltlux Inc., we would like to express our appreciations to every body who participated to the seminar and to every body who contributed to the discussion session at the end of each paper reading session.
Saltlux management would like to wish all the contents of the papers read in the seminar will contribute to the business development of the information search market.
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