| Title | Description |
| The Semantic Web is Here? XML, Calais and SearchMonkey |
CMSWire Paul Wlodarczyk of JustSystems thinks it’s closer than we think. He’s written a great post about the Semantic Web, focusing particularly on how XML can take ambiguity out of search and enable other semantic advantages. He likens the ‘old’ Web to one where the wisdom of crowds prevails (more backlinks equals better content), and [...] |
| Microsoft acquires Powerset |
Webware It’s not a replacement for increasing market share by acquiring Yahoo Search, but it gives Microsoft some differentiated search technology and top engineers for less than $100 million. Ramez Naam, group program manager of Live Search, said the Powersoft negotiations happened in parallel with the Yahoo talks over the last few months. Google and [...] |
| Nokia Teams with MIT on Mobile Software |
CNET News Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday opened the doors to a new research lab that has a distinct software flavor. Nokia executives said the Nokia Research Center Cambridge has begun seven projects in collaboration with MIT’s Center for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The research focuses on simplifying [...] |
| Information Wants To Be Found |
ClickZ Network Book Review: Ambient Findability by Peter Morville Morville looks at how wayfinding strategies developed in the offline world and how they’ve evolved online. Unsurprisingly, he finds many problems but also proposes many approaches for potentially solving those problems. It’s refreshing to see topics such as SEO and Web site usability viewed through this [...] |
| Query Census Data with RDF |
XML.com Let’s say you’re curious to find out the population of the city you live in. Go to Google and ask it “population of philadelphia, pa.” Ha! We’re too smart for Google. It tries to answer the question but comes up with “Pennsylvania – Population: 12,281,054 ; 6th, 12/00.” That’s not what we were looking [...] |
| Vikings Set Out to Conquer Semantic Web |
Heise Online German scientists are working on a project they call Wikinger (German for “Viking”) based on the concept of Wikipedia to provide virtual knowledge networking in addition to the classic exchange of knowledge at Congresses. The goal of the project is to create a domain-neutral platform for scientists to allow them to perform research [...] |
| Spearheading the Semantic Web |
Bio-IT World.com Sharing their passion for the Semantic Web at the Bio-IT World Life Sciences Conference + Expo session on Tuesday were several prominent leaders of the movement. Providing a clinical perspective was Tonya Hongsermeier of Partners Healthcare, who said the Semantic Web is necessary for knowledge management because “the market is balking at healthcare [...] |
| Berners-Lee?s Next Trick: Creating a More Useful Web |
Computerworld Australia Web creator Tim Berners-Lee says that the next phase of the Web, dubbed the Semantic Web, could start making its presence felt at companies in the next couple of years. He provided 400-plus attendees at the MIT Information Technology Conference an update on the project, which has been in the works for about [...] |
| Framework Could Aid Global Information Exchange |
FCW.com An open-standards group has created a framework that could facilitate the global exchange of information among organizations. The naming system could benefit a wide range of disciplines, from disaster response to medical research. The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) has the potential to hasten information exchange by indexing the world’s datasets — [...] |
| World Wide Web Inventor to Speak, April 5 |
Princeton University Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in McCosh 50. His talk, “The Future of the Web,” will cover not only the history of the Web but also the concept and development of the “semantic Web.” Berners-Lee is director of the World Wide Web [...] |
