Archive for November, 2006
Seek and ye shall find…
IBM UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) 
http://www.research.ibm.com/UIMA/
It is an open, industrial-strength, scaleable and extensible platform for creating, integrating and deploying unstructured information management solutions from combinations of semantic analysis and search components. IBM makes UIMA available as a free SDK, and makes the core Java framework available as open source software to provide a common foundation for industry and academia to collaborate and accelerate the world-wide development of technologies critical for discovering the vital knowledge present in the fastest growing sources of information today.
IBM has empowered its products and services with UIMA creating a channel for third-party vendors to deploy their text and multi-modal analytics in larger integrated solutions. The premier product platform that exposes the UIMA interfaces to the customer is WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition. To try out the UIMA software framework download the free UIMA Software Development Kit (SDK) from IBM’s alphaWorks Site.
Links required in this if I get a chance
Tags: common_foundation, industrial_strength, information_integrator, information_management_architecture, java_framework, semantic_analysis, www_research
IBM announce(d) Information Server
Mike F has (some time ago) posted on his Business Eye blog about IBM’s Information Server - which includes Metadata management tools. Huzzah! Now if only we had some nice metadata to actually manage…
Product details on IBM are here . Get it whilst it’s lukewarm.
Tags: information_server, management_tools, metadata_management
Humax 9200T to OS X Conquered
It looks as though MPEG_TS to MPEG2 using MPEG Streamclip has finally given me the route to get Humax TS data from the 9200T for use on other formats. The good news is that I can start to recliam some disk space and tidy up the Humax Library Menu, which is a bit poor at coping with long lists.
The only remaining issues seem to be with getting a connection in the first place. The USB connection is a bit fickle from time to time, and it’s often not possible to connect to D2 where the TS streams are stored. One method that seemed to get around this was to go to the MP3 / Album section of the Humax menu system. The box is expecting a connection and seems to give a better hit rate of getting a proper connection.
Empirical testing, with no sound reasoning (at this stage) - but hey, whaddya expect for a five minute job?
Related posts:
- Humax Transfer Saga Continued…
- The Faffiest Way To Get At Your PVR Content - But At Least It Works
Tags: humax, mpeg2, mpeg_streamclip, pvr, usb_connection