As a result of the keynote speech at the MarkLogic World 2012 conference I blogged a short piece for O’Reilly entitled “Linked Data Underpins the value of Big Data” where I aired the view that it was the links within, and externally between, datasets that were the real value in Big Data.

The increasing interest in Linked Data, and the Semantic Web in general, saw MarkLogic announce, at MarkLogic World 2013, that it was releasing Semantic Web functionality in MarkLogic 7. The 2014

The month of January, named after Janus the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions who is depicted as having two faces so that he may look both forward into the new year as well as back into the one that is past, is a time for reflection and looking forward.

With the introduction of MarkLogic 7 late last year, we find ourselves at a point of transition where we can look back at how we used to structure our information and look forward to 7’s Semantic Web functionality that enables

It’s the holiday season and the decking of halls and trimming of trees has been in full swing for a while now.  And as many of us pause as the year winds down, thoughts of the new year are not too far behind.  For those of us in technology, this is especially fun, given how prone to reinvention and growth technology tends to be.  There are new gadgets to buy, tech tools to try and even the occasional personal goal that can sometimes go alongside, such as learning a new skill.  And while

Last month at Frankfurt Book Fair, David Worlock chaired a thought-provoking panel. The panelists were Dr Sven Fund, CEO of De Gruyter; Jason Markos, Director of Knowledge Management for Wiley; Andreas Blumauer, CEO of Semantic Web Company and Dr Timo Hannay, CEO of MacMillan Digital Science.

David’s initial premise was that in STM publishing today people are thinking about knowledge not books, journals, articles etc. That includes, he said, knowledge pathways;

My colleague Sara Mazer just finished putting together a very cool interactive application on the Tableau Public site that shows how you can do BI-style visualization (with Tableau) on top of the information from email data stored in MarkLogic’s MarkMail service. And, she even set it up so that you can see an example of how the new MarkLogic Semantics capability works!

Check out her blog post in our developer community: “The Art of the Possible: MarkLogic and Tableau Together in Tableau