Well, I had written out an incredibly long response, on my phone, and then lost it when I went to look something up. You are lucky I actually care about this topic a lot or I would have just blown the whole thing off...
Anyway...
First, a clarification question: Will your users actually be submitting whole documents (whether in the form of a wiki page, html content, a.PDF file, or a word processing document) and THEN supposedly selecting multiple snippets of that document and adding metadata about those snippets? Or, will they be submitting those same documents and then merely adding metadata about the document as a whole? {Though from your description of the kinds of queries you want to be able to do, this does not seem to be what you are doing.} OR, will they be merely entering independent "factlets" of information and you want those to be structured?
Your original question lead all of us to believe that the first option is what you want. That is the option that is almost impossible to get done reliably.
The only to truly guarantee he has the buy-in he claims is for him to choose a very expensive package. Then "non-ignoring of sunk costs" will kick in and management might actually force his "highly professional" users to enter metadata properly.
That, or finding a different job, may be his only hope.
Semantic-based systems require EVERYONE who enters information to PROPERLY tag it with ALL the CORRECT metadata. Having supported real-world (AKA stupid, lazy) users for almost 15 years, I can tell you that ain't gonna happen. No matter what the users or management claim at the outset. You will be stuck, furiously applying tags well into the wee hours to "fix" the system "you said would work."
Of course the app got booted off the Apple app store because Apple wants to be the ones to decide when you have analog emissions.
Next year Google will make it an unremoveable bloatware app because they want to track ALL of your analog emissions, scheduled or not.
Next month, researchers will discover that Microsoft has been tracking our analog emissions all along.
And, to come full circle, DARPA will start working on a way to remotely sniff the air in a room to determine if the occupants have been eating traditional terrorist cuisine (whatever the F that is). However, after spending billions on contracts, it will be easily obfuscated just by keeping a couple of old dogs in the room.
This just seems like a battle destined to be lost. Sure, given enough analysis, one could decipher the meaning of the analog emissions coming from a normal device. However, long before that technology ever produces real, useful results, anyone will be able to easily obfuscate said analog emissions with some other device sitting near the subject device. Essentially, an electromagnetic white noise device that also records ambient EM and incorporates random bits of that into its own emissions. Do the same with audio, the EM going back out over the electrical connection, and even the light in the room, and you have created your own, personal, surveillance cloaking device. To the user in the room, it will be barely noticeable over the normal sound of their computer fan and normal fluctuations of light in the room. But it will be enough to make detecting and deciphering the original emissions impossible.
This sounds more like a sweet contract deal for someone's brother-in-law.
Wealthy parents pay people to know what kinds of questions will be on these tests and tutor the kids to perform better on the test. Yes, with enough money, you can game any test.
A country consists of its land and its people. NOT its government. Patriotism means supporting the land and the people. NOT necessarily the government. Especially NOT supporting the government AGAINST the people!
In about 1994 I tore a picture of Bill Gates out of a magazine and stuck it to my cubicle well with red thumbtacks, right in the eyeballs. That should tell you what I think of him and Microsoft.
However, I still use Windows because there is certain software that just isn't available for Linux and I can't stand using a Mac. I have only been able to "survive" because I used to be a network manager. Now I am seriously considering switching to Linux for my "daily driver" and using Windows in a very controlled and isolated virtual machine for all the stuff I use that only runs on Windows.
I only said one year IF this is a resume building job. If you already have plenty of skills and experience start looking for a better job NOW. Once you have that better job, just leave the crappy, short-term job off the resume.
If the powers that be allowed such a situation to exist, and didn't specifically hire you to change it, along with a guaranteed budget with which to accomplish the task, then it will be almost impossible for you to fix it. The fact that they essentially lied to you about your role does not bode well.
If this is a resume building job for you then dink around the edges on things that won't require much, or any, money or many changes to the status quo. Make big talk about how you are improving things. Take every opportunity to educate YOURSELF on things you can use later in your career. Put in your year, then move on. It doesn't matter what you ACTUALLY accomplish in an environment like that. Only what you can spin things in to for your resume. Cynical, I know, but you gotta think about yourself first. This is a dead end job.
The fact that it has half-way useable information is both an accident and the only way it can continue to function for its original purpose: as a link-farm.
new, plastic propellered, human dependent, man toy, overlords.
(Every/. summary about AI or robots should have an automatic first post with this subject line. Then we could compete to fill in the funniest description. That would really make/. fun again. I know somebody has gotta be able to come up with something better than my lame attempt.)
But I was thinking about the velocity of the ISS. Isn't their time slowed down more due to velocity than it is sped up due to greater distance from Earth's gravity well?
I used to be an avid cyclist. Like, 3,000 miles per year avid. So I notice people on bikes. What I have seen over the years is more really poor people on crappy bikes that are the wrong size for them and/or improperly adjusted. These people are seriously uneducated in cycling technique, the law, and basic safety. They will ride against traffic, at dusk, with the sun at their back, and all kinds of crazy-stupid stuff.
So, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the recent uptick of income inequality has had something to do with the increased death rate.
When I was a kid, bicycle safety was taught in school. I'm guessing this has fallen by the wayside (pun intended) as well.
Oh, you poor thing. Your preachers taught you just enough rhetoric for you to think you know something.
The real question is: Where did the laws of physics come from that dictated that space-time would spontaneously appear and expand in such a manner that the very "fabric" of said space-time would coalesce into matter with a structure and behavior that caused it to become what we call hydrogen...
I don't know the answer but that doesn't mean your god did it.
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Well, I had written out an incredibly long response, on my phone, and then lost it when I went to look something up. You are lucky I actually care about this topic a lot or I would have just blown the whole thing off...
Anyway...
First, a clarification question: Will your users actually be submitting whole documents (whether in the form of a wiki page, html content, a .PDF file, or a word processing document) and THEN supposedly selecting multiple snippets of that document and adding metadata about those snippets? Or, will they be submitting those same documents and then merely adding metadata about the document as a whole? {Though from your description of the kinds of queries you want to be able to do, this does not seem to be what you are doing.} OR, will they be merely entering independent "factlets" of information and you want those to be structured?
Your original question lead all of us to believe that the first option is what you want. That is the option that is almost impossible to get done reliably.
I will wait for your answer before writing more.
Could you explain a little more about this plugin? Did you build it yourself?
SharePoint doesn't support true semantic metadata. All your documents would have to be HTML and you would need a separate tool to add the RDF markup.
The only to truly guarantee he has the buy-in he claims is for him to choose a very expensive package. Then "non-ignoring of sunk costs" will kick in and management might actually force his "highly professional" users to enter metadata properly.
That, or finding a different job, may be his only hope.
Semantic-based systems require EVERYONE who enters information to PROPERLY tag it with ALL the CORRECT metadata. Having supported real-world (AKA stupid, lazy) users for almost 15 years, I can tell you that ain't gonna happen. No matter what the users or management claim at the outset. You will be stuck, furiously applying tags well into the wee hours to "fix" the system "you said would work."
This is a losing game. Avoid playing at all.
Seriously, since when has anyone successfully sued for non-working, off-the-shelf software?
Of course the app got booted off the Apple app store because Apple wants to be the ones to decide when you have analog emissions.
Next year Google will make it an unremoveable bloatware app because they want to track ALL of your analog emissions, scheduled or not.
Next month, researchers will discover that Microsoft has been tracking our analog emissions all along.
And, to come full circle, DARPA will start working on a way to remotely sniff the air in a room to determine if the occupants have been eating traditional terrorist cuisine (whatever the F that is). However, after spending billions on contracts, it will be easily obfuscated just by keeping a couple of old dogs in the room.
This just seems like a battle destined to be lost. Sure, given enough analysis, one could decipher the meaning of the analog emissions coming from a normal device. However, long before that technology ever produces real, useful results, anyone will be able to easily obfuscate said analog emissions with some other device sitting near the subject device. Essentially, an electromagnetic white noise device that also records ambient EM and incorporates random bits of that into its own emissions. Do the same with audio, the EM going back out over the electrical connection, and even the light in the room, and you have created your own, personal, surveillance cloaking device. To the user in the room, it will be barely noticeable over the normal sound of their computer fan and normal fluctuations of light in the room. But it will be enough to make detecting and deciphering the original emissions impossible.
This sounds more like a sweet contract deal for someone's brother-in-law.
That's why I love Chipotle. I have almost no unscheduled analog emissions after eating there. Especially compared to Wendy's chili.
Wealthy parents pay people to know what kinds of questions will be on these tests and tutor the kids to perform better on the test. Yes, with enough money, you can game any test.
Whoosh.....
A country consists of its land and its people. NOT its government. Patriotism means supporting the land and the people. NOT necessarily the government. Especially NOT supporting the government AGAINST the people!
... who would clean your dead body out of your apartment after someone killed you for your pizza.
Yeah, fuck the gubment and all their silly rules.
In about 1994 I tore a picture of Bill Gates out of a magazine and stuck it to my cubicle well with red thumbtacks, right in the eyeballs. That should tell you what I think of him and Microsoft.
However, I still use Windows because there is certain software that just isn't available for Linux and I can't stand using a Mac. I have only been able to "survive" because I used to be a network manager. Now I am seriously considering switching to Linux for my "daily driver" and using Windows in a very controlled and isolated virtual machine for all the stuff I use that only runs on Windows.
I only said one year IF this is a resume building job. If you already have plenty of skills and experience start looking for a better job NOW. Once you have that better job, just leave the crappy, short-term job off the resume.
If the powers that be allowed such a situation to exist, and didn't specifically hire you to change it, along with a guaranteed budget with which to accomplish the task, then it will be almost impossible for you to fix it. The fact that they essentially lied to you about your role does not bode well.
If this is a resume building job for you then dink around the edges on things that won't require much, or any, money or many changes to the status quo. Make big talk about how you are improving things. Take every opportunity to educate YOURSELF on things you can use later in your career. Put in your year, then move on. It doesn't matter what you ACTUALLY accomplish in an environment like that. Only what you can spin things in to for your resume. Cynical, I know, but you gotta think about yourself first. This is a dead end job.
The fact that it has half-way useable information is both an accident and the only way it can continue to function for its original purpose: as a link-farm.
new, plastic propellered, human dependent, man toy, overlords.
(Every /. summary about AI or robots should have an automatic first post with this subject line. Then we could compete to fill in the funniest description. That would really make /. fun again. I know somebody has gotta be able to come up with something better than my lame attempt.)
According to those in power, those of us who don't want them to get even more power never seem to understand them.
Just ask Richard Nixon.
Hibernate and suspend are so unreliable on my Win7 laptop that I just stopped using them.
I used to be a network manager, so I know how to fix most things. But I just got tired of messing with it and have up.
But I was thinking about the velocity of the ISS. Isn't their time slowed down more due to velocity than it is sped up due to greater distance from Earth's gravity well?
Of course they tasted different. Due to relativity, the one on the ground aged longer.
I used to be an avid cyclist. Like, 3,000 miles per year avid. So I notice people on bikes. What I have seen over the years is more really poor people on crappy bikes that are the wrong size for them and/or improperly adjusted. These people are seriously uneducated in cycling technique, the law, and basic safety. They will ride against traffic, at dusk, with the sun at their back, and all kinds of crazy-stupid stuff.
So, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the recent uptick of income inequality has had something to do with the increased death rate.
When I was a kid, bicycle safety was taught in school. I'm guessing this has fallen by the wayside (pun intended) as well.
Oh, you poor thing. Your preachers taught you just enough rhetoric for you to think you know something.
The real question is: Where did the laws of physics come from that dictated that space-time would spontaneously appear and expand in such a manner that the very "fabric" of said space-time would coalesce into matter with a structure and behavior that caused it to become what we call hydrogen ...
I don't know the answer but that doesn't mean your god did it.
Ah. Thanks.