Semantic Web School Newsletter 06.08.2007

Editorial Theseus - Das deutsche Semantic Web? Aktuell Lars Marius Garshol: "I expect the future to look bright for Topic Maps as an information integration tool." TRIPLE-I - Europas größter Innovationskongress für Wissensmanagement, Neue Medientechnologien und Semantische Systeme SWS-Up Date Semantic Web School Lehrgangstermine für Herbst 2007 online! Market Scan Microsoft researchers to invest $6M in academic partnership Health care eyes Web 3.0 New SchemaLogic Solution for Media Launched Technology Scan TopQuadrant Claims Semantic Web Breakthrough Astoria and the Semantic Web Zepheira to Use 1060 Research's NetKernel to Power Open Source Persistent URL (PURL) Service Blog Scan When Will Programmable and Semantic Search Replace Spiders and Web Semantic Building: Starting a Revolution Pandia | The Hakia Scoop Bar - Semantic Searching Comes Closer?

Editorial

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! Kürzlich hat die EU-Kommission grünes Licht für das Suchmaschinenprojekt "Theseus" gegeben. Mit einem Fördervolumen von knapp 180 Mio. Euro sollen in mehreren Kleinprojekten bis 2012 Basistechniken und Standards semantischer Technologien zur kommerziellen Reife geführt werden [1]. Das deutsche Projektkonsortium besteht aus insgesamt 31 Firmen und Organisationen, darunter SAP, Bertelsmann-Empolis, Siemens, Thomson, Fraunhofer und DFKI. Was hierzulande als strukturbildende Maßnahme für die Stärkung des Software-Standortes Deutschland begrüßt wird, wird von der US-Presse mit Skepsis verfolgt. Theseus ist ein politisches Top-Down Projekt [2], der europäische Google-Killer [3, 4] und der verzeifelte Versuch der US-Vormachtstellung am Suchmaschinenmarkt nachzueifern [5]. Theseus ist währenddessen um Richtigstellung bemüht und betont den komplementären Charakter des Projektes. Anbieter wie Google würden von Theseus profitieren, heisst es. Und Google zeigt sich am Semantic Web tatsächlich interessiert, wie ein aktueller Artikel in der FAZ belegt. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass der Theseus-Technologie nicht das selbe Schicksal ereilt wie anno dazumal MP3: die Technologie wurde zwar in Deutschland entwickelt, kommerziell verwertet allerdings in den USA. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Ihre Semantic Web School

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Aktuell

Lars Marius Garshol: "I expect the future to look bright for Topic Maps as an information integration tool." It has been quiet about Topic Maps for the last few years although the technology is alive and kicking. Lars Marius Garschol, co-founder of Ontopia and this year's speaker at the international Topic Maps conference TMRA 2007 from October 10 - 12, 2007 in Leipzig, talks about a bright future for integration technologies and the complementary nature between Topic Maps and the W3C Semantic Web.

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Aktuell

TRIPLE-I - Europas größter Innovationskongress für Wissensmanagement, Neue Medientechnologien und Semantische Systeme In der Zeit vom 5. bis 7. September 2007 finden sich in Graz nunmehr zum siebten Mal namhafte Vertreter aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und öffentlicher Verwaltung auf der TRIPLE-I ein. Im Rahmen von Europas größtem Innovationskongress für Wissensmanagement, Neue Medientechnologien und Semantische Systeme werden sie Herausforderungen und Lösungen im Umgang mit Wissen – einer der wertvollsten Ressourcen unserer Zeit – vorstellen und diskutieren. Vertreter innovativer Unternehmen wie Audi, Austria Presse Agentur, Datev, Telekom Austria, Bearing Point Infonova oder HP Austria zählen zu den 300 Teilnehmern, die sich bereits angemeldet haben.

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SWS-Up Date

Semantic Web School Lehrgangstermine für Herbst 2007 online! Im dritten Jahr in Folge bietet die Semantic Web School praxisorientierte Wissensvermittlung zum Einsatz semantischer Technologien für Internet und Intranet. Zu jedem Theoriemodul gibt es zusätzlich ein Praxismodul, in dem die TeilnehmerInnen den Umgang mit Semantic Web Tools lernen.

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Market Scan

Microsoft researchers to invest $6M in academic partnership Microsoft Research will invest more than $6 million in academic collaboration. This hefty budget is for research grants to the university set. It has specifically said it will fund projects in the following areas: Cell phones for healthcare services in rural areas; biomedical computing for the genome project, particularly projects that help with data usage and analysis; intelligent Web 3.0 – sometimes called the semantic Web – projects that develop context-aware models of information access; multi-core computing, particularly projects that show how operating systems can scale; Sustainable and energy efficient computing; and the most fun area of all – human-robot interaction.

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Health care eyes Web 3.0 Forget wikis and blogs — are you ready for the Semantic Web? If you are still trying to understand the world of blogs and wikis — so-called Web 2.0 — you might not feel ready to take on the next iteration of the Web. It’s Web 3.0 — otherwise known as the Semantic Web — and it could ultimately have the biggest impact on health care.

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New SchemaLogic Solution for Media Launched SchemaLogic has announced the release of its business semantics management software specifically designed for media and publishing enterprises. The company is now providing its SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite along with special solutions design consulting expertise to organizations such as The Associated Press (AP), Corbis, Reed Business International, and the International Press and Telecommunication Council (IPTC). The company also announced that its recently completed Series C round of financing led by Goldman Sachs, which raised $12.7 million in additional funds, is being used to propel the launch into this vertical market.

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Technology Scan

TopQuadrant Claims Semantic Web Breakthrough TopQuadrant - the company for which AJAXWorld 2007 East speaker Dean Allemang (pictured) works as a Semantic Web consultant - has announced the succesful development of what it claims is "the only commercially-ready ontology design environment that meets the needs of application developers who are building scalable applications for consumers and enterprises" - enabling software applications to organize and process information, thus making the web 'smarter' for people and machines.

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Technology Scan

Astoria and the Semantic Web Tools like Astoria are a fantastic tool by which we can expose data in a way that jibes with the vision of the semantic web. In case you have been living under a rock, or you really don't care about Microsoft's "data in the cloud" strategies, Pablo Castro is the technical lead responsible for such gems as the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Astoria. Astoria is a project that wraps up an Entity Data Model in a WCF service with a uniform URI query format that allows for RESTful access to relational data via XML, RDF, or JSON.

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Technology Scan

Zepheira to Use 1060 Research's NetKernel to Power Open Source Persistent URL (PURL) Service Resource-Oriented Environment a Good Match for URI Infrastructure. Zepheira, LLC. and 1060(R) Research, Ltd. are pleased to announce the selection of 1060(R) NetKernel as the key enabling technology for an updated Persistent URL (PURL) service. The Open Source development effort is being sponsored by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) as an upgrade to the existing PURL service, which it built and has hosted for over 12 years.

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Blog Scan

When Will Programmable and Semantic Search Replace Spiders and Web ... Changes are coming to search that will fundamentally change not only the way Web sites get ranked but also the way we search, and see search ads. The most immediate changes are at Google. Experts say the company could release requirements this year that will force Web sites to revamp their optimization techniques to stay atop results.

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Blog Scan

Semantic Building: Starting a Revolution The Semantic Web has been discussed and debated by academics for years, and really, we are not getting anywhere fast. This post will discuss how to start building semantics into your website from the ground up. While doing this won't create the create the great Semantic Web straight away, it will provide an underground layer of accessible data which applications can start processing and using.

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Blog Scan

Pandia | The Hakia Scoop Bar - Semantic Searching Comes Closer? Yes, it’s yet another search related browser toolbar. If you want to have some fun while you check out Hakia, an interesting new search engine, give it a try. If you do a lot of research online, you might also want to try it out. Or perhaps Google Web History is freaking you out and you are looking for a new toolbar?

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