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Semantic Web Company Newsletter 17 June, 2008 EDITORIAL Linking Open Data - a global concern Dear Subscriber! I recently stumbled upon an interesting article on Government Computer News which said that, with the continuous progress being made in ontology engineering techniques and applications, questions arise as to how the standardization of ontological constructs for creating and sharing knowledge can be achieved. This question had apparently been a major topic at a recent summit, jointly organized by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Ontology virtual community of practice and National Center for Ontological Research. This development, coming from governmental side, parallels the growing amount of free, structured data on the web – commonly known as the Linking Open Data Initiative. While writing this, I am also looking forward to the outcomes of the LinkedData Planet conference in New York, USA, where we, the Semantic Web Company from Austria, are going to meet up with Aman Shakya, a Nepali native and researcher in Tokyo, Japan, to congratulate him on winning our Linked Data Vison competition - yet another proof that the concern of the Linking Open Data Initiative has grown into a global one. With best regards, The Semantic Web Company
VOICES Tom Heath: "No isolated islands, but a web of data."
VOICES Martin Hochmeister: "Semantic Web – a 'humanizer' for computer-aided work."
SWC UPDATE LOD Vision Competition - we have a winner!
SWC UPDATE TRIPLE-I '08 - Registration now open
SWC UPDATE KiWi @ ESWC Semantic Wiki Workshop 2008
MARKET SCAN Tim Berners-Lee: "Creative problem solving is the web's challenge."
MARKET SCAN E-Health 3.0: Changing the World of Internet Health Information
MARKET SCAN The ontology of social media (for businesses)
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Semantic tagging with Faviki
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Gartner’s Top 10 Technologies of the Next Four Years
TECHNOLOGY SCAN A search engine for salaries: Glassdoor.com
BLOG SCAN Navigating Hollywood gossip with semantic technology
BLOG SCAN Google I/O: The Rules of Social Objects
BLOG SCAN ESWC08: A blog review from Keith Alexander
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In
an interview with SWC's Andreas Blumauer, Tom Heath from Talis and
an active member of the Linked Data Community discusses the growth
and future of the Web of Data. Tom thinks that "a data set being
available on the Web is not enough, it must also be in
the Web" and continues: "The web must be a web, not a series of
isolated data islands."
Martin
Hochmeister aims to create a new discipline of „human-software architecture“
within the next generation web. The semantic web expert talks about
future developments in an interview by Marion Fugléwicz-Bren.
Last
month we asked you for your ideas and visions of a future with Linked
Open Data. This month we are happy to announce the name of the winner:
Aman Shakya, a Nepali native and researcher at the Department of
Informatics at SOKENDAI University in Tokyo, developed his vision
around the idea of ordinary people being able to publish structured
data, and endorsed his vision with the online tool StYLiD. Congratulations!
The TRIPLE-I Conference series is a joint venture of the conferences
I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS, taking place September 3-5, 2008
in Graz. TRIPLE-I reflects the increasing importance and convergence
of knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic systems.
Registration is now open - reduced registration fees apply until
July 31, 2008.
KiWi
gets around! Members of the KiWi team participated in the Semantic
Wiki workshop that took place on the 2nd day of the European Semantic
Web Conference (ESWC) that was held from June 1-5 in Tenerife, Spain.
Matthias Samwald (SWC) and Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research)
both served as members of the programme committee and were joined
by Peter Dolog (Aalborg University), who gave a keynote in which
he introduced the KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki - Project.
Computerworld's
Linda Rosencrance reports about the 
Who would have thought ten years years ago that, by 2008, more than eight million health searches would be made - daily? The quality and reliability of medical web resources has improved tremendously over the past years. Medial News Today investigates how Health Information Online can further be enhanced by the Semantic Web - welcome to E-Health 3.0!
Ben
Willis, in a guest post on Marketing Pilgrim, applies what he calls
"an ontological perspective" in the process of defining the core
of a business and concludes: "Your business is not about relationships:
Your business IS the relationship that exists between your Customers
and your Products or Services."
You
know del.icio.us, Bibsonomy, CiteULike, Ma.gnolia and Diigo - now
meet Faviki. Faviki is a semantic tagging tool that suggests tags
on the basis of DBpedia, the database that extracts structured information
from Wikipedia and makes it available in RDF.
Joshua
Hill from Canada Free Press discusses the recently released Top
10 List of technologies, not for the next decade, but for the next
four years, as identified by technology researchers and consulting
company Gartner. The rank for Semantics? Number 10. Other candidates
on the list, e.g. social networks and social software, sound like
usual suspects of the past four years.
Salaries
are often among the best-kept secrets within a company - for the
sake of harmony within a team, this might make sense. Knowing what
others earn, however, is the key to a good negotiation position.
Glassdoor.com, which has just launched in public beta, seeks to
close this information gap, harnessing collective intelligence rather
than watercooler talk. AltSearchEngines takes a closer look
Bob
DuCharme, who is also a member of the 
Keith
Alexander, a web developer working for the Talis Platform, gives
an extended report of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).
He talks about the scripting workshop (which he thoroughly enjoyed),
SPARQL, vocabularies and ontologies, voiD, Semantic Games, demos
& posters, lightning talks, industry folks at ESWC, its interdisciplinary
approach and SWIG Scotland. A greatly appreciated service for all
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