Ronald Reck

RRecktek LLC · - Information Technology and Exploitation

Determining fake and real news is becoming increasingly difficult. Historically, resources, credentials, and accountability were challenges in becoming a reporter or a source for providing information. With the internet, social media, and anonymity, any person (or bot) can create and disseminate news and information. This venue that allows the quic...

Immigration is a hot topic, as it evokes images of the “wall” and immigrants flooding our borders; however, immigration also affects business, academics, religion, and tourism. Public perception correlates “immigration” with “illegality.” As there are over 100 non-immigrant legal visa categories, and nine million non-immigrant visas are issued annu...

Broadcasters over the last decade with the migration to a digital platform have discovered the challenges of managing technology that is dynamic and constantly changing. While rapid technological advancement brings many benefits, it also presents many challenges such as an accelerated obsolescence cycle. The complexity of the digital age is compoun...

Here the frequency distribution functions have been calculated for seven different types of readability measurements for over fourteen thousand texts from Project Gutenberg 1 (PG). Other supporting measurements were also obtained: the average characters per word, the words per sentence, and the syllables per word. Three types of distributions have...

The quantity of data available for linguistic analysis is ever increasing as the Internet expands. However, this is of questionable utility to automated processing when the format of the data is unpredictable. Significant variations can occur, even within a single source. Both data producers and consumers should be able to construct, interpret, and...

The traditional approach to federal glossaries and acronym lists has been to use HTML, Microsoft Word, Excel, or PDF. This paper describes how a strawman DTD developed into a XML Schema based upon ISO and ANSI standards for thesaurus concepts and terminology. This in turn became a stepping stone for a pilot implementation using RDF-based SKOS (Simp...

The critics of modern day intelligence community projects, like TIA and MATRIX, are quick to point out the additional risks to our freedom and civil liberties that are imposed by these types of systems. What these critics neglect to mention are the risks should such systems not exist. The conjecture that the information in these systems has potenti...

Consumers concerned with adhering to International Standards Organization (ISO) Standards are all faced with the same two challenges. There is no uniform way for users to identify changes to the standards, nor does ISO supply the values in a "standard" electronically accessible format. This paper proposes using a "standards" approach to support the...

With the passing of each day more information finds its way to the Internet. While casual users of the Internet do not understand the qualities or importance of standards, the Internet would not exist if it were not for standards. Citizens should understand why standards (more specifically data standards) are important, what data standards do for t...

This paper discusses a pilot application of XQuery and OWL technology to interrelate three diverse metadata and data sources: The World Factbook, Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg. We explore some of the unique capabilities of each of these technologies, as well as some of their similarities, to stitch together semantic content from three disparate s...

In this paper, we present ongoing work on Vocabutek, an online electronic auction for knowledge in the form of Semantic Web vo-cabularies as used in Linked Data. Our online service plans to solve one of the most long-standing problems on the Semantic Web: How can users of the Semantic Web easily find and create vocabularies that satisfy their needs...

As music is a topic of interest to many, it is no surprise that developers have applied web and semantic technology to provide various RDF datasets for describing relationships among musical artists, albums, songs, genres, and more. As avid fans of blues and rock music, we wondered if we could construct SPARQL queries to examine properties and rela...

As music is a topic of interest to many, it is no surprise that developers have applied web and semantic technology to provide various RDF datasets for describing relationships among musical artists, albums, songs, genres, and more. As avid fans of blues and rock music, we wondered if we could construct SPARQL queries to examine properties and rela...

Collexis, a public corporation, combines co-author data, metadata and the unstructured content of abstracts to create large expert networks that exhibit both rich user expertise profiles as well as users' professional relationships with others in the field. Collexis makes these expert networks available for public use with generous, but limited, fu...

Thesis (M. A.)--Eastern Michigan University, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-37).