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Today Rich Snippets have been implemented in more than 40 languages around the world, and have managed to catch the attention of significant players like Yelp,

31 Jul 2010 3:04am GMT

It has been twelve years since Tim Berners-Lee threw up his hands and said "it's all crap, letâ ™s do it o...

31 Jul 2010 1:40am GMT

Semantic Web (SW) is a vision of the future World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet is revolutionizing the Internet are changing the way Internet and applications developed and deployed. As a result, there is also the lifestyle of people ...

31 Jul 2010 1:35am GMT

Semantic Web (SW) is a vision of the future of the World Wide Web (WWW) that will revolutionize the Internet by changing the way the Internet and the applications on Internet are developed and used. As a consequence, it will also change ...

30 Jul 2010 10:20pm GMT

9th International Semantic Web Conference Shanghai, China November 7, 2010. You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 9th ...

30 Jul 2010 6:07pm GMT

Semantic Web (SW) is a vision of the prospect of the Earth Wide Web (WWW) that will revolutionize the Internet by changing the path the Internet and the.

30 Jul 2010 3:25pm GMT

SWAP 2010 : 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives | Series: SWAP 2010, SWAP 2011, SWAP 2012.

30 Jul 2010 11:34am GMT

Semantic Web provides ideas and analysis for IT managers and information architects, featuring news, case studies, and trend spotting reports on Semantic Web technology and the Semantic Web industry. Also includes news on Semantic ...

29 Jul 2010 7:00pm GMT

In this post we dive a bit deeper into the types of opportunity for semantic web vendors and how they can position to win a big share of the $229 billion enterprise software market. ...

29 Jul 2010 12:00pm GMT

That is two strikes against semantic web technology in the enterprise. It is not part of the user driven SaaS wave and it is not part of the Enterprise 2.0 online collaboration growth market. ...

27 Jul 2010 12:00pm GMT

The "OWLlink Protocol" specification has been published as a W3C member submission, co-authored by experts from Clark & Parsia LLC, Creative Commons, Daimler Chrysler Research and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, NTT DOCOMO, Stanford University, University of Aberdeen, Computing Science, University of Manchester, and Vrije Universiteit. The specification defines a general, implementation-neutral protocol to access the functionalities of a reasoner acting as an (OWLlink) server. This general mechanism is defined in term of UML; separate documents define bindings of this general protocol with different syntaxes that can be used to communicate with reasoners over HTTP. Using one of these concrete protocol bindings clients can control and query reasoners using the terms defined in the general OWLlink Structure.

19 Jul 2010 4:05pm GMT

Since it completed the Recommendation Track process last year, little has been said or written about POWDER. However, there have been a number of unrelated events recently that I take as evidence of a long term future. As chair of the WG that created it (and an editor of all but one of the documents and general front-person for the whole thing), this makes me happy! One of my private measures of success for it has always been that one day, someone I don't know and who doesn't know me stands up at a big conference and says "you know this POWDER thing is really cool." That happened at SemTech last month when Matt Fisher presented it in a session called RDF Friday Part 3: Practical RDF - POWDER & Object Design Patterns. The full version of what he was saying is available in an article on his company website Putting POWDER to Work. Matt and I have exchanged e-mails since then but we hadn't had any contact before. Secondly my friend and WG member Andrea Perego has been cooking up some code that uses POWDER to generate RDFa in a way that could make it really easy to add all those <link /> elements in documents on the fly under the control of a single, central POWDER file. Suppose you want to add RDFa to all the pages on your Web site (not a bad thing to do!). One can imagine doing this for Creative Commons licences, DC metadata etc. Something like <link rel ="cc:license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" /> <link rel="dcterms:creator" href="http://philarcher.org/foaf.rdf#me" /> These link elements should probably be included on every page of your site. Sounds like a job for POWDER. Andrea's PHP POWDER Processor (3P) can take a POWDER file and URI as inputs and return those RDFa link elements via a RESTful API - one that could easily be called from within an authoring tool. Full documentation, including an example using the Open Graph Protocol, is available. Another development is still under wraps at the moment but the signs are very positive that a combination of marketing expertise, industry contacts, business dynamism and, not unimportantly, venture capital is coming together in a POWDER-fuelled start-up. A quick reminder of the key features of POWDER: it allows you to associate a bunch of predicates and objects with any number of subjects (as Dan Brickley puts it: it solves the aboutEachPrefix issue); it's primary format is XML, a small amount of which can describe a large amount of content; it has an associated GRDDL transform that renders the data as semantically-equivalent OWL; a POWDER processor returns RDF triples; the provenance of the data is always declared. If you haven't looked at POWDER before, maybe now's a good time to do so.

17 Jul 2010 8:28am GMT

The last week of June, participants at the W3C RDF Next Steps Workshop concluded that support for JSON, Turtle, and for "Named Graphs" are top priorities for any future work on RDF. Participants also highlighted the importance of compatibility with existing deployment. Read about these and other topics in the Workshop report. To join the discussion about organizing future work on RDF, please share your thoughts on the Semantic Web Interest Group mailing list (with a copy to the separate RDF Comments list). W3C thanks the National Center for Biomedical Ontology at Stanford, Palo Alto, USA, for hosting the Workshop.

11 Jul 2010 8:13am GMT

KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) and KAST (Korean Agency for Technology and Standards) have provided a W3C Semantic Web Case Study on an integrated, connected search service for technical standards information, that also provides information on trends, on standard related research and development activities, etc. Ontologies were created to model the standardization process and relationships; SPARQL and RDF were used to integrate heterogeneous resources, and taxonomies helps users to ask questions in more natural language.

07 Jul 2010 12:48pm GMT

The W3C HTML5 Working Group has published 8 "heartbeat" documents. This includes a new draft of the HTML5+RDFa specification, which now refers to the latest RDFa 1.1 Core draft instead of the older, RDFa 1.0 version. In other words, new features, like the usage of default vocabularies or the profile attribute, are now available in HTML5 according to this draft.

30 Jun 2010 1:59pm GMT

Today W3C published a new standard for building rule systems on the Web. Declarative rules allow integration and transformation of data from multiple sources in a distributed, transparent and scalable manner. The new standard, called Rule Interchange Format (RIF), was developed with participation from the Business Rules, Logic Programming, and Semantic Web communities to provide interoperability and portability between many different systems using declarative technologies. For more information, see the RIF FAQ. The six new standards are: RIF Core Dialect, which provides a standard, base level of functionality for interchange RIF Basic Logic Dialect and RIF Production Rule Dialect provided extended functionality matching two common classes of rule engines RIF Framework for Logic Dialects describes how to extend RIF for use with a large class of systems RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 borrows heavily from XQuery and XPath for a set of basic operations and RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility specifies how RIF works with RDF data and OWL ontologies. Along with these standards, W3C today published five related documents: RIF Overview, RIF Test Cases, OWL 2 RL in RIF, RIF Combination with XML data, and RIF In RDF. The RIF Working Group is also preparing a primer and a revision of its outdated Use Cases and Requirements.

22 Jun 2010 8:10pm GMT

The RDB2RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for Mapping Relational Databases to RDF. The need to share data with collaborators motivates custodians and users of relational databases (RDB) to expose relational data on the Web of Data. This document examines a set of use cases from science and industry, taking relational data and exposing it in patterns conforming to shared RDF schemata. These use cases expose a set of functional requirements for exposing relational data as RDF in the RDB2RDF Mapping Language (R2RML).

09 Jun 2010 8:08am GMT

The W3C RDFa Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the RDFa API. RDFa API provides a mechanism that allows Web-based applications using documents containing RDFa markup to extract and utilize structured data in a way that is useful to developers. The specification details how a developer may extract, store and query structured data contained within one or more RDFa-enabled documents. The design of the system is modular and allows multiple pluggable extraction and storage mechanisms supporting not only RDFa, but also Microformats, Microdata, and other structured data formats.

08 Jun 2010 6:48pm GMT

Apple buys Siri, and brings real semantic smarts to Cupertino.

30 Apr 2010 8:12pm GMT

This podcast conversation with David Siegel discusses his latest book, Pull, and explores the many ways in which Siegel believes a semantic web can power business today and into the future.

18 Mar 2010 11:57am GMT

Martin Hepp and Jamie Taylor answer questions about the GoodRelations vocabulary in a podcast conversation, exploring opportunities to enrich the way in which we compare goods and services.

22 Feb 2010 10:52am GMT

Semantic Technology startup, Siri, releases a Virtual Personal Assistant for the iPhone and simplifies a wide range of tasks for US consumers on the move. Just by speaking to their phone, users can make dinner reservations, check the weather, find movies, flights and more.

05 Feb 2010 6:29am GMT

Thomson Reuters and Oracle today announced support for the media giant's OpenCalais metadata generation service within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g. The integration gives Oracle users and developers direct access to OpenCalais' natural language processing (NLP) capabilities.More importantly, perhaps, direct integration with an Enterprise product such as Oracle's database says much about how far [...]

01 Sep 2009 12:15pm GMT

Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration's Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers.At the heart of many of today's initiatives [...]

10 Aug 2009 10:46am GMT

10 Aug 2009 10:46am GMT

An oft-repeated concern in discussing large-scale deployment of Semantic Web ideas is that of 'scale.' With many of the better known data stores upon which the Semantic Web depends capable of storing only tens or at best a few hundreds of millions of RDF triples, it can be difficult to argue that the technology is [...]

14 Jul 2009 12:20pm GMT

June's episode of the regular Semantic Web Gang podcast was recorded on stage at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.Audio and video of the session is now available, with Gang members and conference organiser Tony Shaw engaging in a discussion of the event's highlights and the underlying trends at work.

09 Jul 2009 11:48am GMT

The keynote on this final day of the Semantic Technology Conference saw Robert Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times talk about the paper's innovative adoption of semantic technologies;"The first semantic search system for The New Times was released in 1913 and was available bound in either paper ($6) or cloth ($8). In [...]

18 Jun 2009 7:36pm GMT

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or ideas, but to lead a [...]

17 Jun 2009 8:26pm GMT