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Introducing RDFa

(Bob DuCharme) For a long time now, RDF has shown great promise as a flexible format for storing, aggregating, and using metadata. Maybe for too long—its most well-known syntax, RDF/XML, is messy enough to have scared many people away from RDF. The W3C is developing a new, simpler syntax called RDFa

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Radiating Intelligence

(David Baum) In a new vision for business intelligence (BI), all employees in an organization become potential decision-makers, whether they work in customer service, shipping, manufacturing, finance, human resources, or just about any other department. Companies with this vision are delivering anal

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Improving Data Quality

(Jonathan Geiger) Data profiling does not improve data quality directly. It provides a better understanding of the challenges you face in delivering information that meets business expectations. To improve data quality, you must act on the information.