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Semantic Web: A collaboration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others to provide a standard for defining data on the Web. The Semantic Web uses XML tags that conform...; Full Semantic Web Definition >>

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Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium: Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web ConsortiumSemantic WebThe evolution of the web represents a new epoch for mankind if the data is made available in an accurate an palatable fashion. With infinite data available we essentially obtain a degree of knowledge never formerly imaginable, the...; Tags: Semantic Web, Ivan Herman, knowledge, W3C; Discussion threads 2009-06-24
Semantic & Social Web - What's In It For You?: Here's an excellent slide presentation from Simon Cross and Ben Smith of BBC Future Media and Technology to illustrate a talk about the social semantic side of the BBC they presented last month at Futuresonic 09. The semantic web is the underlying plumbing...; Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Social Web, Tim Berners Lee, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2009-06-10
Semantic Web: To be or not to be: Semantic Web: To be or not to beSemantic web - choose your vendors carefullyI am all for the semantic web and the development of a layer of consciousness over it for full interoperability and new application mashups. I've heard of a number of publishers thinking about jumping on the...; Tags: Zemanta, Calais, Semantic Web, Thomson Reuters Corp.; Discussion threads 2009-06-08
Semantic Web Gang podcast discusses Wolfram Alpha and Google's Rich Snippets: This month has seen Google announce 'Rich Snippets' and Wolfram Research release Alpha to a flurry of mainstream media coverage; both are of interest to those working on the Semantic Web. This month's episode of the Semantic Web Gang takes a look at both stories, and Gang...; Tags: Google Inc., Podcast, Mainstream Media, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2009-05-22
Can semantic technologies help brands profit from social media?: In my latest podcast interview with those shaping our evolving engagement with Semantic Technologies, I speak with Eric Hillerbrand. Drawing upon years of experience in the development and deployment of Semantic Web solutions, Eric has spent the past few years considering the ways in which semantic technologies...; Tags: Brand, Social Media, Branding, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2009-04-20

The Semantic Web Gang discuss ontologies: Back in October I wrote about the first Vocabulary Camp, or VoCamp. These informal gatherings have gone from strength to strength, and the fourth is currently underway on the Spanish island of Ibiza. A report from the island by Yahoo's Peter Mika begins this month's episode of...; Tags: Ontology, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2009-04-16
Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium: Ivan Herman is Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and in this podcast he talks about a range of current activities across the Semantic Web community. by Paul Miller; Tags: W3C, Ivan Herman, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2009-04-08
Growing the Linked Data pool, with the Talis Connected Commons: Back in December of 2008, I wrote about a new initiative from Amazon to make large sets of public data more accessible. Amazon offered to mount the data for free, and for developers writing applications elsewhere in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem even the bandwidth cost of communicating with GenBank,...; Tags: Data, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2009-03-30
Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for Dummies: Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for DummiesMore like the Pedantic Web for @nal retentivesSemantic Web is the "soft" science of CS. With hand waving and imagination you can glimpse what a semantic web would be like. It is a beautiful fantasy whose time is not yet...; Tags: Semantic Web, Jeff Pollock; Discussion threads 2009-03-25
Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for Dummies: Oracle's Jeff Pollock has been involved with Semantic Technologies for more than a decade, and puts that experience to good use in his latest book, Semantic Web for Dummies. I spoke with Jeff yesterday, and the result has just been released as a podcast. ...; Tags: Jeff Pollock, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2009-03-25
Altova SemanticWorks 2009 (Windows): Altova SemanticWorks 2009 is the ground-breaking visual RDF/OWL editor for the Semantic Web from the creators of XMLSpy. Graphically design and edit RDF instance documents, RDF Schema RDFS vocabularies, and OWL ontologies then output the format of your choice. SemanticWorks streamlines the job with full syntax and semantics checking. Additionally,...; Tags: Altova, OWL, Microsoft Windows, Altova SemanticWorks 2009, SemanticWorks, Details Entry Helper Window, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2009-02-08
Thinking about where the Semantic Web conversation takes place: Over on my own blog, I wrote a short post about BusinessWeek's social network yesterday. Business Exchange is well-linked from the print magazine, and offers an opportunity for writers and readers to gather and share resources that inform or relate to stories. The site's been in beta since September, and...; Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2009-01-27
Semantic Web Gang discusses Calais, Linked Data and Google: January's episode of the monthly Semantic Web Gang podcast has just been published. In it Gang members discuss Thomson Reuters' release of Calais 4.0, and look at the suggestion that Google may be applying a more semantic approach to surfacing some search results. by Paul Miller; Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Paul Miller, Podcasts, Semantic Web; Blog posts 2009-01-19
The Semantic Enterprise: The video above by Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar provides a clear and simple overview of the semantic web for 'newbies', explaining the limitations of the internet in its current incarnation and the potential of next generation intelligent agent machines to help us find information. While the...; Tags: Environment, Information Context, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2009-01-04
Could Amazon provide a home to Linked Data?: In a press release issued earlier this month Amazon announced their 'Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services' initiative, providing a free home to potentially massive public data sets and free use of those data by developers hosting their applications in the company's data centres. Larry Dignan...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, RDF, Semantic Web, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-12-16
Zemanta talks Linked Data with SDK and commercial API: I covered Slovene semantic technology startup Zemanta back in September when they secured investment from New York City's Union Square Ventures, and the company also received frequent mentions in the Semantic Web Gang's recent look back over 2008. Yesterday, the company released an update to their popular...; Tags: API, SDK, Zemanta, Freebase, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-12-09
Mark Greaves of Vulcan sees business opportunities in the Semantic Web: Vulcan shares many traits with its reclusive founder, Paul Allen, yet behind the scenes the company is responsible for philanthropic support to research and community-building activities, as well as investing commercially in the likes of Radar Networks the company behind Twine and Evri. Last week, I had...; Tags: Knowledge, Vulcan, Mark Greaves, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Strategy, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Management, Manufacturing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-12-08
Semantic Web Gang looks back at 2008; favours both infrastructure and lightweight apps: Looking back over 2008, the Semantic Web Gang found much to discuss in their last podcast of the year. A year that began with a $42million investment in Metaweb continued with Yahoo!'s support for semantic technologies, Microsoft's purchase of Powerset, and the release of much-hyped Twine. We...; Tags: Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-12-08
'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark: Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...; Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-12-02
$10k hacking contest announced: Israeli software developer Gizmox is challenging hackers to try hacking into the company's Visual WebGui Platform, by offering a $10,000 incentive to those who manage to achieve the objectives of their contest launched at the beginning of the month. What's particularly interesting about the contest is the fact that the...; Tags: Contest, Identity, Gizmox, Hacking, Semantic Web, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-11-12