|
 Visit the Semantic Web Blog
|
|
Semantic Web Company Newsletter October 19, 2009 EDITORIAL Is Google Wave semantic? Dear Reader! With its large Pre-Beta Test Google generated a lot of buzz around its next big thing: Google Wave. According to analysts the communications platform that will replace email comes along with a lot of nice structured features and a mighty NLP-engine. But is it semantic though? Ron Miller from SemanticWeb.org documented some dispute about that issue depending on the definition of "semantic", but amongst others he clearly points out that the plattform opens up big opportunities to Semantic Web developers due to its open licensing policy. However communication will look like in the future, with the Wave-Service Google is pushing web-collaboration to a new level. From there computational semantics are just a fingertip away ... With best regards, Your Semantic web Company
VOICES Werner Bailer: "A picture is worth a thousand words."
VOICES Lutz Maicher: "With the vision of the web of data Topic Maps and the Semantic Web move closer over time."
SWC UPDATE SWC offers webinars for quick-start in Semantic Web
SWC UPDATE SWC investigates into the foundations of the Future Internet
SWC UPDATE Project Kick Off: SEmantic SmArt Metering – Enablers for Energy Efficiency
MARKET SCAN The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, WNYC, More Join Data Archive Experiment DocumentCloud
MARKET SCAN Machine Language Translation: Markets to Reach $7 Billion by 2015
MARKET SCAN ABC music mashup shows off the Semantic Web
TECHNOLOGY SCAN W3C: HTML+RDFa First Draft Published
TECHNOLOGY SCAN SSWAP: A Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol for semantic web services
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Based on the OED, and 44 Years in the Making, Oxford University Press Releases the First & Only Historical Thesaurus
BLOG SCAN Will Google Wave topple the email status quo and change the way we work?
BLOG SCAN Evri Drives New Hearst Website, Wants to Make News Aggregators Smarter
BLOG SCAN Semantic advertising: Digging deeper for context
|
Recent
Publications 
The Social Semantic Web The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress) has captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. Social websites, evolving around the connections between people and their objects of interest, are encountering boundaries in the areas of information integration, dissemination, reuse, portability, searchability, automation and demanding tasks like querying. The Semantic Web is an ideal platform for interlinking and performing operations on diverse person- and object-related data available from the Social Web, and has produced a variety of approaches to overcome the boundaries being experienced in Social Web application areas.
Event Tip ZUKUNFTSWEB - Kick Off Event Wednesday, 4. November 2009, Vienna / Austria Start of the event series "Zukunftsweb", which will go on till June 2010. At the kick off event Austrian experts will discuss the opportunities, risks and fears of a future web. panelists are Hans Zeger (privacy expert), Tom Sperlich (journalist), Christian Bauer (André Heller Company Group), Nicoletta Blacher (psychologist).
Event Tip TMRA 2009 | 5th International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications Sunday, 11.- Tuesday, 13. November 2009, Leipzig/Germany TMRA 2009 will be the fifth event in the annual series of international conferences on Topic Maps Research and Applications. TMRA is the advanced scientific and industrial forum whose main object is connecting the key players in the Topic Maps community. Here you will find researchers and users in government and industry, as well as the vendors, the luminaries, and the standards creators gathered for an exchange of ideas in a stimulating setting.
Event Tip SAMT 2009 | 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies Wednesday, 02. December 2009 to Friday, 04. December 2009, Graz/Austria The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT '09) targets at narrowing the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.
|
From December 2 - 4, 2009 the 
Topic Maps have made big leaps towards the web. From November 11
- 13, 2009 this will be one of the big issues at the 
The webinars of the Semantic Web Company offer basics and practical
knowledge about methologies, technologies and standards of the Semantic
Web. Within 90 minutes you acquire an overview over latest developments
and topics relevant for your business and areas like Content-Engineering,
Knowledge Management, Business-Intelligence, E-Business and more.
Each webinar is a stand-alone-module and can be booked singularly.
Attendance is limited to ten participants.
Twenty newspapers, magazines and nonprofit organizations have become
new partners with DocumentCloud, a data archiving project created
by journalists and developers at ProPublica and The New York Times.
The Atlantic, New Yorker, Mother Jones, MSNBC, WNYC and The Washington
Post are among the publications that will submit documents, files
and other data into the DocumentCloud system, and soon make them
available for public search.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research,
Inc.'s new report "Language Translation Software and Services
Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2009 to 2015"
to their offering. This 2009 study has 668 pages, 244 tables and
figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth
as the globally integrated enterprise uses language translation
to build out localized e-commerce sites that support a brand in
every region.
Earlier this year, the ABC launched three new socially networked
digital radio websites — ABC Dig Music, ABC Jazz and ABC Country
— which aggregate content from several different sources,
including MusicBrainz, YouTube, Last.fm and Wikipedia. It is not
only a new approach for a content-rich organisation such as the
ABC, it illustrates the possibilities of Semantic Web technology.
The artists pages on the site, which form the core functionality,
automatically pull in content from around the Web.
The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
of HTML+RDFa. RDFa is intended to solve the problem of machine-readable
data in HTML documents. RDFa provides a set of HTML attributes to
augment visual data with machine-readable hints. Using RDFa, authors
may turn their existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable
data without repeating content. This specification defines rules
and guidelines for adapting the RDF in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
(RDFa) specification for use in the HTML5 and XHTML5 members of
the HTML family. 
SSWAP (Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol; pronounced
"swap") is an architecture, protocol, and platform for
using reasoning to semantically integrate heterogeneous disparate
data and services on the web. SSWAP was developed as a hybrid semantic
web services technology to overcome limitations found in both pure
web service technologies and pure semantic web technologies. 
A little more than two weeks ago, the folks at Google began rolling
out a preview version of a new web tool known as Wave to a limited
100,000 users. With mixed reviews, it has been labelled everything
from “game-changing” to “unremarkable”.
What is Google Wave? It’s a combination of email, instant
messaging and collaborative work tool all within your web browser.
It is early days yet, but Wave may have the potential to transform
how you work with both colleagues and clients.
The next step in the future of journalism could be led by a Seattle
startup. Today, media giant Hearst announced it has started a new
website called LMK (Let Me Know), a news aggregator that pulls in
Web feeds from sources like the Associated Press and Getty Images,
and automatically creates topic pages for individual celebrities,
sports teams, companies, and the like. The content filtering technology
behind the site comes courtesy of a partnership with Seattle-based
Evri, a startup founded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital.
Legend has it FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once received a poorly
drafted letter from his secretary, to which he added a footnote,
“watch the borders.” The result was legions of agents
dispatched to patrol the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. How
is this relevant to the world of online advertising? It just goes
to show that one can never truly know the context of a statement
based on as few as three words. And yet isn’t that what contextual
advertising does?| Unsubscribe | Contact |
|
©
Semantic Web Company - Owner, Editor: Semantic Web Company GmbH |