Company's Employees Publish 'The Semantic Web' -
Highlighting Concepts That Are Transforming How Web Will Operate
Company's DoD Contracts Represent First Steps
Toward the New, 'Semantic' Web
HERNDON, Va., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- McDonald Bradley, Inc. (MBI), a
rapidly-growing information technology solutions provider to the government
marketplace, today announced that the projects the Company is working on for
the Department of Defense are setting the stage for what will become the next
generation of the Web. Chief Scientist, Advanced Programs Group Michael
Daconta and Principal Software Architect Kevin Smith, explore the implications
of these new, transformational technological concepts the Company is
spearheading in a new book recently released by Wiley Publishing, Inc. -- The
Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge
Management.
The "semantic" web is the evolution of the current web to make it usable
by machines -- not just people. In order to accomplish this, it places
reliance and importance on the meaning of words (called semantics) -- not
simply the matching of words that occurs today when a user submits a query. By
eliminating the reliance on word matches, and inserting structure to the
information that is stored, the door opens for "machine to machine" use of
web. This machine processing requires the meaning of information to be
formally and logically expressed to software programs.
This evolution is underway in the Company's work on both the Virtual
Knowledge Base (VKB) and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) projects at
the DOD. In the first, MBI is creating a framework for integrating information
stored in many different repositories of data, such as intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance information, so military users and software
search "agents" will be able to search everything at one time and display it
on the fly in previously unavailable combinations. In the second, the Company
is creating the ability to understand the context of military queries. For
example, doing a search on a grid coordinate will be automatically recognized
as a location instead of a random string of numbers, thereby displaying a map
of that precise point on the ground.
"We are excited about the groundbreaking advances our team is making on
the DOD project, and this new book sets the stage for CIOs everywhere to take
note how this next generation in the technology will yield vast increases in
workforce productivity," said Kenneth Bartee, President, MBI. "This book by
our employees introduces the revolutionary aspects of our work, and in doing
so, sheds light on what business and industry can soon expect in how business
processes will continue to be transformed on the Web."
The Semantic Web introduces, explains and explores revolutionary concepts
invented by the authors like the "Smart Data Continuum," "Semantic Levels,"
"Non-contextual Modeling", and "Combinatorial Experimentation" and how these
concepts apply to today's business environment. Further, the book reveals the
return-on-investment (ROI) for semantic web initiatives and other aspects of
the business case for adopting semantic web technologies. Finally, it offers a
clear, step-by-step roadmap to preparing for and implementing semantic web
technologies today.
"I predict that large enterprises will be incorporating these semantic web
technologies into their intranets and portals at a pace such that in the next
2-3 years, we will begin to see a transformation from haphazard knowledge
management to the knowledge-centered organization," said Mr. Daconta.
The book is directed to CIOs, senior executives and technical managers and
is the first one of its kind that explains all the components of the semantic
web as well as the role and relationship of current technologies.
Mr. Daconta will be a featured guest at a special reception and book
signing for The Semantic Web sponsored by the Company on Wednesday, June 11 at
the Washington Convention Center during the E-Gov 2003 conference. It starts
at 4:00 pm in Room 159B. He will also deliver a convention address on the
topic of the semantic web on Thursday, June 12, at 2:20 pm in the Homeland
Security Pavilion Theatre.
This latest book by Mr. Daconta, an international and well-respected
authority on programming, represents the tenth technical book he has published
in ten years. The book is currently available at major bookstores, computer
stores, Amazon.com and direct from Wiley Publishing at 877.762.2974.
About McDonald Bradley
McDonald Bradley is a rapidly growing, information technology solutions
provider to the government marketplace. Since 1985, the Company has steadily
built an exceptional reputation for delivering data visualization intelligence
tools that allow clients such as the DOD to easily and graphically analyze
large, diverse information sets; systems assurance services for independent
verification and validation of large software development projects for clients
such as HUD; and web application integration services that leverage existing
legacy systems for clients such as Fairfax County. MBI solutions immediately
provide measurable cost savings and productivity improvements.
SOURCE McDonald Bradley, Inc.
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