Electronic publishing is at a fascinating stage in its development. Since the Information Industry began migrating online, products, service and processes that were once physical world activities have become digital and virtual. We have seen that information does not behave in the same way it once did. New disruptive business models emerge, seemingly out of nowhere. IP is harder to protect, and the old rules don’t seem to apply any more. And that’s just the start of it.
As organisations struggle to grapple with the changes brought about by so-called Web 2.0 technologies, another wave of change is coming up over the horizon, one with huge implications for all information providers. What will an information business look like in this new world of intelligent agents and semantic search?
These constant upheavals make for a chaotic, uncertain landscape – but one full of opportunity for those who can understand the implications of the changes and seize the initiative. The future is ours to write.
We’ve started this blog to be a place where we can monitor and debate these changes in a collaborative way. In being a collective company blog, the work of many hands rather than a CEO soapbox, it perhaps stretches the form a little – but we think that’s no bad thing. Watch this space!
This post is fundamentally a response to a really interesting one by Dave Kellogg that I read a few weeks ago titled positioning MarkLogic Server, so to get the most of out of it you’re going to have to check Dave’s out first. The diagram on the left, a variant on Dave’s original, shows how different types of data and content technologies square up. While I liked Dave’s analysis, I also felt there was something missing that I wanted to tease out here, so I’ve made a few modifications.
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