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Year: 2023 (Page 19 of 23)

Gilbane Advisor 2-22-23 — ChatGPT, semantic grammar, hashtags

February 22, 2023 /

This week we feature articles by Stephen Wolfram, and Mark Wyner.

Additional reading from Steve Nouri, James Vincent, and Steve Nadis.

News comes from TerminusDB, Acquia, PayloadCMS, and Stilo.

Note that news items now link to the original source of the news rather than our 200 word summaries, which are always available here.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index/

Opinion / Analysis

What is ChatGPT doing … and why does it work?

Last week’s featured article by Ted Chiang used a familiar analogy to somewhat demystify why ChatGPT appears to work well while sometimes going off the rails. This week Stephen Wolfram explains what is actually going on under the covers. This is a long (75 min) read, but fascinating, well-written, and guaranteed to make you smarter about large language models in general. 

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

Hashtag accessibility, by everyone for everyone

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should always be pascal case (a.k.a. camel case). There are a number of reasons why this is important, the most notable being that screen readers have a hard time with conjoined words.

Mark Wyner illustrates why this is a no-brainer (4 min).

https://markwyner.medium.com/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone-298667b2d891

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TerminusDB launches TerminusCMS

The open-source, headless, developer-focused content management system (CMS) is built on an RDF graph database that connects JSON documents into a graph.
https://terminusdb.com/blog/category/content-knowledge/

Acquia announces new CDP features, pricing tiers, and delivery options

Acquia CDP supports composable customer experience and data strategies through integrations with Acquia DXP and third-party marketing products.
https://www.acquia.com

Payload releases CMS version 1.6.0

In addition to optimizing the TypeScript interface of the Local API, the entire API has gotten a significant overhaul.
https://payloadcms.com

Stilo management buys out Stilo Corporation

Acquisition transfers all IP, trademarks, and customer contracts and XML software products: OmniMark, Migrate, OptimizeR, and Analyzer.
https://www.stilo.com/

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TerminusDB launches TerminusCMS

February 15, 2023 /

TerminusDB announced the launch of a product called TerminusCMS that connects content, documentation, data, and processes to turn content management from a resource drain into a cross-functional semantic knowledge centre.

TerminusCMS is an open-source, headless, and developer-focused content and knowledge management system. Under the hood is an RDF graph database that connects JSON documents into a graph. It is schema-based and the schema prompts developers to model their knowledge management requirements. By modeling requirements and incorporating operational/transactional data, content, documentation, and media, businesses create an organization-wide knowledge graph. This knowledge graph bridges content and data silos but also includes business logic in the form of graph edges: the relationships between data and content.

Global organizations are complicated environments with huge supply chains, multi-regional teams, and local regulatory compliance needs. Semantic relationships between people, content, and data make the job of obtaining knowledge from day-to-day operations and transactions possible. TerminusCMS has an analytics engine that enables developers to use GraphQL as a proper graph query language. Often hidden transactional and operational data, and once siloed content, is discoverable and useable with TerminusCMS.

https://terminusdb.com/blog/category/content-knowledge/

Stilo management buys out Stilo Corporation

February 15, 2023 /

Stilo Corporation announced that the management team, comprised of Bryan Tipper (CEO) and Jackson Klein (CTO), have acquired 100% of Stilo Corporation’s shares. The acquisition transfers all IP, trademarks, and customer contracts as it relates to Stilo’s suite of software products:

  • OmniMark: A well-established development platform used to build high-performance content processing applications integral to enterprise publishing solutions.
  • Migrate: An automated cloud XML content conversion tool enabling organizations to improve turnaround times, reduce operating costs, and take direct control of their work schedules.
  • OptimizeR: A tool to help automate the deduplication of DITA content, improve content consistency, and help maximize the opportunity for content reuse.
  • Analyzer: An interactive platform that enables users to identify content reuse across multiple source formats, pinpoint potential cost savings, and generate compelling and detailed graphical reports.

With the change in ownership structure, Stilo Corporation will be able to significantly reduce corporate overheads and reinvest these savings into new product development.

https://www.stilo.com

Gilbane Advisor 2-15-23 — Blurry JPEGS, Meta pixels, ontologies

February 15, 2023 /

This week we feature articles by Ted Chiang, and Maria Puertas & Simon Fondrie-Teitler.

Additional reading from Heather Hedden, Benj Edwards, and Tom Warren.

News comes from Weaviate, Expert[.]ai, MadCap Software, and Open Applications Group.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index/

Opinion / Analysis

ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the Web

This analogy to lossy compression is not just a way to understand ChatGPT’s facility at repackaging information found on the Web by using different words. It’s also a way to understand the “hallucinations,” or nonsensical answers to factual questions, to which large language models such as ChatGPT are all too prone.

Ted Chiang does an excellent job of communicating to a non-technical audience why caution is called for in the use of large language models. (13 min).

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

How to fix your organization’s Meta pixel problem

Do you know whether, or what, information you are tracking and sending to Meta / Facebook? Does your company’s privacy policy makes claims about protecting customer data? If so, you may want to verify those claims are, in fact, supported across the organization. This may not be easy due to old code, turnover, size, and the number of websites and applications you have. The Markup’s Maria Puertas and Simon Fondrie-Teitler show you how to use their free research tool get started. (9 min).

https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/01/31/in-2023-resolve-to-fix-your-organizations-meta-pixel-problem

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Weaviate releases generative search module

Combines language abilities like ChatGPT’s with a vector database that is relevant, secure, real time, and less prone to hallucination.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/weaviate-releases-generative-search-module/

Expert[.]ai announces new features to hybrid natural language platform

New features include expanded on-premise deployment options, enhanced taxonomy management via 3rd-party knowledge sources, and library integrations.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/expert-ai-announces-new-features-to-hybrid-natural-language-platform/

Madcap Software adds cloud-based authoring to MadCap Central

You can now create and edit files, and maintain projects uploaded to MadCap Central independent of MadCap Flare.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/madcap-software-adds-cloud-based-authoring-to-madcap-central/

Open Applications Group releases IOF Ontology Version 202301

Includes IOF Core in the Released status and the Supply Chain and the Maintenance Reference Ontologies in the Provisional Status.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/oagi-releases-iof-ontology-version-202301/

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Acquia announces new CDP features, pricing tiers, and delivery options

February 14, 2023 /

Acquia announced new Acquia Customer Data Platform (Acquia CDP) tiers and partner models, expanded industry focus, and configurability to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes. Acquia now gives organizations with smaller budgets and teams an entry into the product, built on the same platform that serves complex, global organizations. The platform now offers:

  • CDP configurations and machine learning (ML) models for unique requirements in retail, consumer goods, food and beverage, healthcare, financial services, and travel and hospitality.
  • CDP features pricing tiers to serve small, medium, and large organizations with varying customer data management needs. These can range from businesses that need a single view of the customer to those with mature CX strategies.
  • Improved scalability based on each organization’s maturity and growth in customer profiles, transactions, events, geographies, and brands.
  • Better configurability and extensibility with support for more data elements, data sources, downstream services, workflows, and schedules to serve unique business needs.
  • Acquia partners can now implement and service clients with access to enhanced training from Acquia, sandboxes and demo environments, technical resources, data implementation, and other support programs.

https://www.acquia.com

OAGi releases IOF Ontology Version 202301

February 8, 2023 /

OAGi (Open Applications Group, Inc.) has released the 202301 suite of IOF (Industrial Ontologies Foundry) Ontology that includes IOF Core in the Released status and the Supply Chain and the Maintenance Reference Ontologies in the Provisional Status. Please consult the README file for the detail of the release. It is available for immediate download at IOF Release 202301.

IOF Core is a foundation for domain ontologies such as maintenance and supply chain. IOF Core represents thousands of person-hours of development, review, refinement, and quality-checking. IOF has established processes modeled after the proven approach used by the EDM Council for the collaborative development, testing, and publication of a number of industry ontologies, including the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and the Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP). The 202301 release also contains the maintenance and the supply chain reference ontologies in the provisional state. IOF will constantly improve IOF Core while working on domain ontologies based on it. IOF invites organizations to contribute to industrial ontology work.

https://oagi.org ■ https://industrialontologies.org

Gilbane Advisor 2-8-23 — machine translation, contextual computing

February 8, 2023 /

This week we feature articles by Alan Morrison, and Rocío Txabarriaga, Yifan Wang, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng, Weiguo Zheng, & Mingxuan Wang.

Additional reading from Yennie Jun, Dean Allemang, Sean Hollister.

News comes from Netlify & Gatsby, CrafterCMS, W3C, and AesirX.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index/

Opinion / Analysis

Enabling contextual computing in today’s enterprise information fabrics

What do get when you combine network effects, decentralized knowledge graphs, statistical machine learning, and blockchains? Alan Morrison: “… a siloless network of networks approach which P2P data networks such as IPFS are enabling will eventually result in…” a new level of connectivity, extended contextual computing, and value. OriginTrail is an instructive example. (5 min).

https://www.datasciencecentral.com/enabling-contextual-computing-in-todays-enterprise-information-fabrics/

Revisiting controlled language for better machine translation quality

Rocío Txabarriaga reports on (with link to) a paper proposing a methodology to more effectively and efficiently leverage style quality to improve controlled language MT results. The authors address limitations of current methods of accounting for language style, and show how their approach reduces the need for continuous model and fine tuning. (summary 2 min, paper 20 min).

https://slator.com/revisiting-controlled-language-better-machine-translation-quality/

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Netlify acquires Gatsby

Netlify is a platform for modern web development and the acquisition is aimed at accelerating adoption of composable web architectures.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/netlify-acquires-gatsby/

W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

The new entity preserves member-driven approach, existing worldwide outreach and cooperation while allowing additional partners around the world.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/w3c-re-launched-as-a-public-interest-non-profit-organization/

CrafterCMS expands its marketplace

The headless CMS and composable DXP vendor expands marketplace with 60+ open source plugins, blueprints, and packaged business capabilities.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/craftercms-expands-its-marketplace/

AesirX launches headless CMS

The CMS includes marketing automation software, digiatal asset management (DAM), 1st-party analytics, business insights, and Single Sign On.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/aesirx-launches-headless-cms/

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MadCap Software adds cloud-based authoring to MadCap Central

February 7, 2023 /

MadCap Software, Inc., a provider of multi-channel content authoring software, released a new version of their content experience management (CxM) platform, MadCap Central. Designed for teams and enterprises, the latest version adds content authoring capabilities in the cloud. Now authorized users can contribute to content development, publishing, project management, collaboration, translation, hosting and analytics using the cloud-based MadCap Central platform without the need to add subscriptions to the MadCap Flare desktop application. Single-source publishing means the same content can be repurposed to deliver modern documentation websites, print brochures, online Help, knowledge bases, support sites, training and development content.

MadCap Flare and Central extend micro content functionality with the ability to design and display micro content as curated knowledge containers or panels on any topic or in search results. The flexible knowledge panels can be used to improve the user experience (UX). The containers can also be used to help bridge the gap between technical documentation and sales and marketing by highlighting new products, updated features, and promotions and turning technical information into a variable lead and revenue generation engine. MadCap Central also adds enterprise single sign-on (SSO) for improved user management, password management, and security compliance.

https://www.madcapsoftware.com

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