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Semantic Web Company Newsletter January 21, 2010 EDITORIAL Microsoft`s commercial interest in SPARQL Dear Reader! Twitter revealed an interesting hint how Microsoft is embracing the Semantic Web. Frank van Harmelen dug out a document about Microsoft's attempt to convert SPARQL queries into SQL queries. The abstract says: "RDF store database designs and efficient techniques for converting SPARQL queries to SQL queries are described that provide faster triplet access, and which can reduce the computational overhead and cost associated with storing large volumes of RDF metadata. In various embodiments RDF data can be stored in de-normalized tables tailored to provide efficient query and storage performance. The provided query conversion techniques provide reliable and efficient query performance." While this development is a promissing sign to integrate Semantic Web standards into established techology stacks we see a different problematic development: the cited document is a patent application at the USPTO. Whether you are a friend or foe of software patenting it is an interesting indicator for the commercialization of the Semantic Web. With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES Jordan S. Hatcher: "Why we can't use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software."
VOICES Bernhard Haslhofer: "Linked Data is an attempt to continue the well-established information organization tools known in libraries."
SWC UPDATE New Semantic Web webinars for 2010
SWC UPDATE Protagonists of Web 3.0 in Austria
SWC UPDATE Call for Papers: I-SEMANTICS 2010
MARKET SCAN Manage Metadata to Manage Your Business Better
MARKET SCAN Digital research institute announces €400,000 Enterprise of the Future project
MARKET SCAN Oracle Grabs Silver Creek Systems in Data Quality Play
TECHNOLOGY SCAN OGC Seeks Input on Next Version of CityGML
TECHNOLOGY SCAN First alpha of Drupal 7 is available
TECHNOLOGY SCAN How Semantic Markup Helps Server-side Developers Write Reusable Code
BLOG SCAN 5 Reasons Why RSS Readers Still Rock
BLOG SCAN NYT: More Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud
BLOG SCAN An Orwellian world for Big Brother
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Programming the Semantic Web With this book, the promise of the Semantic Web -- in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web -- is not just a technical possibility, but a practical reality. Programming the Semantic Web demonstrates several ways to implement semantic web applications, using current and emerging standards and technologies. You'll learn how to incorporate existing data sources into semantically aware applications and publish rich semantic data.
Event Tip Web 3.0 Conference January 26 - 18, 2010, St. Clara/ California The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, provides a strategically significant opportunity to make media and business run better. Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity.
Event Tip OnAV10 - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization February 15 - 18, 2010, Krakow, Poland The OnAV Workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers discussing state of the art approaches to ontology management and alignment, and in particular, to investigate how information visualization techniques can be applied to support ontology navigation, ontology alignment decision making tasks, and ontology evaluation. However, we also encourage researchers and practitioners working in other areas such as ontologies for Semantic Web applications, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, to submit interesting and challenging contributions.
Event Tip I-Semantics 2010 - 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems Wednesday, 01. - Friday, 03. September 2009, Graz/Austria With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. The confernce is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowlede Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.
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Legal certainty is crucial when it comes to build business around
new technologies. The Open Knowledge Foundation has started to tackle
this problem with respect to Linked Data. Tassilo Pellegrini spoke
to the Open Content Lawyer Jordan S. Hatcher about licensing issues
in Open Data and got some practical advice to get started on a complex
but crucial topic.
Libraries have long been suspicious about the Semantic Web but latest
developments show that Linked Data paves the way for the adoption
of Semantic Web standards in the library domain. Andreas Blumauer
(SWC) talked to Bernhard Haslhofer from the University of Vienna
about the cautious, but promissing relationship between libraries
and the Semantic Web.
New webinars for a quick start in Semantic Web are available. The
webinars which are provided in cooperation with the Corporate Semantic
Web Working Group from FU Berlin cover crucial issues in building
and deploying a (Corporate) Semantic Web. Within 90 minutes participants
acquire an overview over latest developments and topics like Content-Engineering,
Knowledge Management, Business-Intelligence, E-Business and more.
As the volume of data in enterprises grows, so does the complexity
of managing it. Companies need visibility into all its data, including:
the types and amounts of data, where data resides across the organization,
how it is derived, how it flows from one system to another and where
end users consume data. IT organization can more effectively manage
its data-intensive business demands by harnessing the power of metadata
to acquire, discover, and validate all enterprise data and its relationships.
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway has announced
a three-year Enterprise of the Future technology project, supported
by Cisco. The €400,000 project will develop new ways for the
Enterprise of the Future to integrate information and make it easily
accessible for employees. A typical company has information stored
across a variety of often unconnected formats including documents,
emails, instant messaging, and wiki pages. DERI’s semantic
search and integration technology will seek to more cleverly and
usefully link information and make it accessible across the company.
Oracle has acquired Silver Creek Systems in a bid to expand its
data quality portfolio. Financial details of the deal were kept
under wraps, but Oracle officials said their intent is to enhance
product data quality across enterprise applications, including Oracle’s
Product Information Management Data Hub, Agile Product Lifestyle
Management, Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Resource Planning
offerings.
The current version 1.0 of CityGML was adopted as an official OGC
Standard in August 2008 and has come to wide use since then. The
OGC Technical Committee seeks input from the wider community in
the form of change requests, proposed additions and suggestions
for the future development of CityGML. These should be submitted
by February 26, 2010. The public OGC online form for change and
feature requests is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cr.
The first alpha release of Drupal 7.x has been made available for
testing. Drupal is one of the most popular and largest community
based open source content management systems available today. The
7.x series promises some interesting changes to the CMS. Here are
a few of the changes that can be expected ....
If only you could write every single line of code in your next project,
you’re certain it would be the cleanest, most maintainable
website on the Internet! But websites are rarely the sole products
of front-end developers, and in any project that involves a lot
of programmatic heavy-lifting it can be a struggle to instill an
appreciation for the benefits of a quality front-end codebase on
even the most quality-conscious server-side programmers. Too often,
what at first seems a minor instance of HTML semantics actually
involves quite a number of implications beyond what’s evident
to most people (including management and operations departments)
in most projects.
Recently I wrote about the decline of RSS Readers as a way for people
to keep up with news. I noted that while many people still use RSS
Readers, usage has decreased due to the emergence of real-time and
social flows of information via Twitter, Facebook and other such
services. The post sparked a fascinating discussion, with over 160
comments. What I learned from that discussion is that while the
RSS Reader market is indeed in decline, there are still a number
of compelling use cases for RSS Readers. Not to mention new tools
worth checking out. So in this more optimistic post, I list 5 reasons
why you should continue to use RSS Readers.
Today we’re pleased to announce the addition of approximately
5,000 new subject headings to data.nytimes.com. These subjects include
organizations, publicly traded companies and geographic identifiers,
ranging from Apple Inc to Kansas to Williams College. Like the 5,000
person-name subject headings released last October, we have mapped
our latest crop of subject headings to DBpedia, Freebase and —
in the case of our geographic subject headings — GeoNames.
The Council of Europe document ‘Internet Governance and critical
Internet resources’ states (p.7) that “ . . . the Internet
of Things refers to the seamless connection of devices, sensors,
objects, rooms, machines, vehicles, etc, through fixed and wireless
networks. Connected sensors, devices and tags can interact with
the environment and send the information to other objects through
machine-to-machine communication . . . The Semantic Web promotes
this synergy: even agents that where not expressly designed to work
together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with
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