Category: Semantic Web

Writing on the 3bko.com blog, Richard Hancock describes how to take a “business first, technology second” approach to the issue of applying Semantic Web strategies to organisations.  He describes how he held a meeting with developers, managers, information architects and analysts to introduce the concepts and the five key …

Writing on the bnode blog, Benjamin Nowack describes a method for using Dynamic Semantic Publishing to automatically aggregate and publish inter-related content.  He offers the BBC website (where this technique was employed during their recent World Cup 2010 coverage) as an example and describes how it could be …

Writing on the official Google Blog, Jack Menzel, Director of Product Management at Google explains how Google’s recent acquisition of Metaweb, an open directory of over 12 million things, including films, television shows, literature and business, will help Google improve search and make the web more meaningful for users.

“Over …

Semantic Web developer, Structured Dynamics have developed what they term “Semantic Components” using Flex:

“”A semantic component is an ontology-driven component, or widget, based on Flex. Such a component takes record descriptions, ontologies and target attributes/types as inputs and outputs some (possibly interactive) visualizations of the records. Depending on …

The iSemantics conference is being held between 1-3 September 2010 in Graz, Austria and features speakers such as Marti Hearst from Berkeley University, Peter Gloor of MIT and Rafael Sidi of Reed Elsevier:

“With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe …

The Training Examples site is another StackOverflow inspired community questions based site about NLP (Natural Language Processing), Text Analysis, AI and other machine learning oriented subjects where…

“…data geeks ask and answer questions on machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, text analysis, information retrieval, search, data mining, statistical …

Based on the highly successful Stack Overflow Q&A site for developers, Semantic Overflow aims to provide a community oriented portal for asking and answering questions about Semantic Web technologies.  There are currently 263 questions (at the time of writing) covering a variety of Semantic Web and metadata questions, such as:…

As reported last week on SemanticWeb.com, Adaptive Semantics has been bought out by key customer, The Huffington Post.  This news follows the acquisition of Collexis by Elsevier as reported last week and there does seem to be a trend for publishers buying into Semantic technology.

Adaptive Semantics provide …

The Scottish Linked Data Interest Group will hold its first meeting on 13th July at the Outhouse in Edinburgh (Scotland).  Readers based in Scotland may be interested in the group which has recently been formed by Bill Roberts who is co-founder of semantic web development consultants, Swrrrl.  According to …

Collexis, a semantic technology and knowledge discovery software vendor has been acquired by STM publisher, Elsevier.  The combination is an an obvious fit, Elsevier publish over two thousand specialist science journals and Collexis’s technology has been widely adopted by the academic market:

“Elsevier’s research performance, planning and funding …

This article by Pew Research analyses responses from 895 survey respondents as part of Pew’s “Future of the Internet” survey.  The research revealed that almost half the respondents (47%) believe that by 2020, the Semantic Web will not be as effective as some visionaries such as Tim Berners-Lee …

In this article on the Semantic Web Company’s blog, Tassilo Pellegrini interviews Eric Franzon of Semantic Universe and organiser of the annual Semantic Technologies Conference.  One of the key points Eric notes is the gaining mainstream acceptance of the importance of the Semantic Web and associated technology:

“Ours …