because meaning matters
beingmeta brings human meaning to digital information, using semantic technologies in services and applications which enhance life, productivity, and sustainability.
being (from the greek for 'after' or 'beyond') captures the general patterns which emerge from particular knowledge. beingmeta's core technologies identify and apply the patterns of human meaning in computational systems.
being (as in the English 'metadata') engages with "information about information" that abstracts, summarizes, or connects digital content or sources; beingmeta's products create and leverage meaningful metadata associated with online digital content.
being (the Buddhist virtue of 'lovingkindness') commits to an ethic of positive transformative engagement with all humankind, deploying technologies which can bridge space, time, culture, and language.
is a
powerful and versatile semantic tools stack providing
scalable, robust, high-performance semantic computing in an
open environment.
beingmeta's
powerful technology enables advanced semantic and linguistic
programming from Scheme, C, and Java enabling the creation of agile
distributed applications together with customized high performance
semantic data mining.
beingmeta semantic
services provide on-demand web services for linguistic and
semantic analysis, allowing standalone and web-based applications to
leverage advanced facilities through a simple interface at an
accessible price.
sBooks provide an online digital reading experience which is better than offline analog reading, enriching information with social and semantic context and transforming the online experience of browsing, sharing, and searching complex documents.
Knodules are a lightweight representation system supporting (relatively) small knowledge bases for limited domains or communities. Knodules are especially valuable for sustainable social metadata because they allow the creation of richly diverse and detailed vocabularies whose internal structure improve search and browsing.
Open SourceFDJT is a powerful web toolkit developed for beingmeta's online applications and including support for a range of rich UI components as well as general Javascript utilities.
Open SourceLIBU8 is a portable C library for processing, generating, and converting UTF-8 encoded strings. The library also provides a light abstraction layer over various operating system functions.
Dr. Kenneth Haase [vitae] [homepage] founded beingmeta in 2001 to transform modern computing to reflect human meanings and purposes. With extensive experience in global research and development, Dr. Haase seeded beingmeta with a decade of research developments from his work at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Walter Bender is executive director of Sugar Labs and senior research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory. Bender was president of One Laptop per Child, where he developed and deployed technologies that helped revolutionize how the world's children engage in learning. He is former executive director of the Media Laboratory, as well as the founding director of the Electronic Publishing group in the Lab. While at the Lab in 1992, Bender founded the News in the Future consortium and has participated in much of the pioneering research in the field of electronic publishing and personalized interactive multimedia. He has worked closely with pioneers in the field of technology and learning such as Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Alan Kay for 30+ years. Bender has a BA from Harvard University and an MS from MIT. He is a member of the GNOME Technical Advisory Board and has a visiting faculty appointment at the University of Tampere in Finland.
Cris Dolan has spent close to two decades building and bringing to market advanced technology businesses in the areas of Internet, eCommerce, interactive television, executive information systems, communications and network management technologies. As a founder and Division President of OneMain.com, Cris conceived and launched the cornerstone of OneMain, the Geographic Communities which she made profitably in only five months. She has over a decade of sales and strategic business alliance development experience. Cris began her career at IBM in various sales and marketing roles selling advanced technology solutions to the Communications, Finance and Securities sectors. While studying for her master of science degree at the MIT Media Lab, Cris was a research assistant in the News in the Future research consortium where she worked on the early prototypes for interactive information, entertainment and sports. She also holds a master of computer science engineering, and a bachelor of electrical engineering with a minor in business. Cris has served on Microsoft's Internet Advisory Board and the Netscape Internet Publishing Advisory Board. She has also served within the New York Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).
Mintz-Levin of Boston, Massachusetts serves as general counsel for the company. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo is a versatile law firm of more than 450 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing a diverse international clientele in many industries, providing a wide range of legal services and resources.
practical common sense addresses the challenge of artificial stupidity by developing platforms and resources which enable existing and emerging software applications to appreciate and leverage the background and context which human beings take for granted.
deep texts reinvent the software of books as semantically rich, socially embedded artifacts which combine knowledge bases, web portals, wikis, and traditional texts, connecting readers to networks of knowledge, resources, and individuals.
e-Communion connects individuals and communities across space, time, language, and purpose, using "meaningful technologies" of semantic description and social networking to gather individuals together around common knowledge and purposes while amplifying individual insight and understanding.
BRICOBASE streamlines finding information on the
web using beingmeta's broad-coverage semantic knowledge base for
precisely targeted results. In addition to providing quick links to
related sites, BRICOBASE aggregates social tagging
sites to manage the often-chaotic diversity of natural
language tagging.
sBooks
reinvent the "software of the book" to provide an online digital
reading experience which is better than offline analog
reading. As the software and service analog of e-Book readers like
Amazon's Kindle, sBooks are social, semantic and
structured, gently adding context and background to the reading
experience.