Semantic Web News

Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web : 13th International Conference, EKAW 2002, Siguenza, Spain, October 1-4, 2002.

Thanks to the help of Henry Story , who recently presented the concepts of FOAF in a Sun Identity Interest teleconference forum, I have begun to experiment a bit with the technology.

Researchers with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have thrown themselves head over heels into the semantic web.

The Resource Description Framework is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web.

Abstract We demonstrate the use of Semantic Web technology to integrate the ALFRED allele frequency database and the Starpath pathway resource.

Abstract In order to obtain a machine understandable semantics for web resources, research on the Semantic Web tries to annotate web resources with concepts and relations from explicitly defined formal ontologies.

LODr looks interesting. It brings tagging, Web 2.0, into the Semantic Web, Web 3.0. LODr is a RDF-based tagging service, that allows people to weave their Web 2.0 tagged data into the Linked Data Web and provides a dedicated browsing interface.

ReadWriteWeb's Best Products of 2009 , Read Write Web Read Write Web has begun its compilation of the 10 best products for 2009 in several categories: + Mobile web + Comsumer web + Semantic web + Internation web + RSS and syndication + Enterprise + Internet of things + Real-time technologies

Abstract This chapter describes the challenges involved in the integration of databases storing diverse but related types of life sciences data.

Abstract The ability to retrieve relevant information is at the heart of every aspect of research and development in the life sciences industry.

The history of computing is the history of finding ways to link data to programs, and the Semantic Web is the next step in that evolution, Tim Berners-Lee told attendees at the Gartner Web Services and Application Integration conference in Los Angeles this week.

ACM simonmcbride inn700s3 Abstract We study the feasibility of applying the dominating paradigm of belief revision, the AGM theory, to logics outside its original scope, with special emphasis given on logics used for ontological representation in the Semantic Web.

Thus, the proper maintenance of these, usually large, structures and, in particular, their adaptation to new knowledge is one of the most challenging problems in the current Semantic Web research.

CiteSeerX Beta Abstract Abstract. A web of linked RDF data may be enabled by standards specifying how links should be made in RDF and under what conditions they should be followed as well as powerful generic RDF browsers that can traverse an open web of RDF resources.

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - the first and still the best weekly newsletter for tech news and reviews - we present our end-of-year series profiling the best web products of 2009.

This month's theme features the following articles: Managing and Querying Distributed Multimedia Metadata An automatically constructed metadata resume could facilitate the retrieval of desired media information about content distributed across several servers.

Much of it has been driven by Linked Data , a W3C project which gained momentum this year.

By Michael Cataldo, CEO, Cambridge Semantics There is a revolution occurring in the Internet space that has been labeled Web 3.0 and is also known as a oethe Semantic Web.a As with the original internet revolution, there are significant enterprise implications for this technology, and innovators across industries, from banking to bio-pharma, are ...

We have extended the deadline of our call for papers on Learning and the Social Web .

European researchers have created new tools for semantic technology development which are helping to set the next generation of official standards.