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Semantic Web Company Newsletter June 16, 2010 EDITORIAL Studies in Open Government Data Dear Subscriber ! Open Government is gaining momentum. On Friday, June 11, Andy Oram posted on O'Reilly Radar about three ongoing projects to investigate the societal effects of Open Government Data. Marco Fioretti, an Italian academic and open source activist, looks the openness of public data in EU local administrations and the economic challenges and opportunities associated with the introduction of governments to the Linked Data paradigm. A compareable study is being conducted by the initiative Open Source for America, measuring openness and transparency of U.S. federal government agencies. And the Association of Health Care Journalists survey the difficulties journalists experience when asking public information officers in the U.S. health sector for ... information. These projects are very interesting as they take a non-technological approach to government data. But defibnitelly they will produce insights from which the developers community will profit. With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES 7 questions to Kingsley Idehen: "By declaring its context, Linked Data can be made more easily reusable by others"
VOICES Lyndon Nixon: "With the hundreds of TV channels available, content selection becomes a significant challenge for users."
SWC UPDATE I-SEMANTICS 2010 - Earlybird registration open till July 31, 2010
SWC UPDATE Future Internet Closing Event - How will the Web evolve?
MARKET SCAN 5 Pillars for an Enterprise Semantic Web
MARKET SCAN Can Web 3.0 save the publishing industry?
MARKET SCAN Elsevier Acquires Collexis, a Leading Developer of Semantic Technology and Knowledge Discovery Software
TECHNOLOGY SCAN RDB2RDF Use Cases and Requirement Drafts published by W3C
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Applications utilizing the Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol (SSWAP) for bioinformatics resource discovery
TECHNOLOGY SCAN A Layman’s Intro to the Semantic Web: Web 3.0, ontology, and RDFa
BLOG SCAN Machine Translation's Past and Future
BLOG SCAN The Semantic Web As Big Brother Could Have Prevented The BP Oil Disaster
BLOG SCAN The Semantic Web Comes to Social Change
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Event Tip SemTech 2010 - Semantic Technology Conference
June 21 - 25, 2010, San Francisco / USA The 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (#SemTech) will be held at the Hilton Union Square in downtown San Francisco. Now in its sixth year, SemTech 2010 is the world’s largest educational conference for the community of executives, technologists, researchers, investors and customers who are involved with semantic technologies.
Event Tip I-Semantics 2010 - 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 1 -3, 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.
Event Tip TMRA 2010 - 6th Int. Conference on Topic Maps
September 29 - October 1, 2010, Leipzig / Germany TMRA 2010 will be the sixth 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.
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From June 9 - 11, 2010 the EuroITV Conference discussed latest advances
and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content
creation community. Tassilo Pellegrini talked to Lyndon Nixon, STI
International, about the future role of semantic technologies in
the television industry and how a Social Semantic Web might influence
the traditional television experience.
Do not forget about the Earlybird Registration for the I-SEMANTICS
Conference in Graz from September 1 - 3, 2010. More than a 100 talks
and a rich social program are in preparation. 
A new survey by consulting firm Semantic Arts estimates that between
35 and 65 percent of the $300 billion dollars being spent per year
on systems integration is attributable to resolving semantic mismatches
between systems. The company's latest findings in "The CIO's
Guide to Semantics" notes that promising technologies such
as Web services, XML, business rules, and business intelligence
will depend on semantics for successful implementation.
Publishers who want to get on top need to recognize that the Web
is evolving into an increasingly linked cloud of data which we call
Web 3.0. Currently, we understand the World Wide Web mostly as a
large a collection of documents. This paradigm has worked well so
far, but as the amount of information grows and we get overwhelmed
by the number of options, we will need computers to step up to the
challenge and do more of the filtering and sorting work for us.
This is where the semantic Web comes in.
Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical,
and medical information products and services, announced today the
acquisition of assets from Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer
of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software. The combination
of Elsevier's content and Collexis' semantic technology will provide
institutions and researchers new ways to collaborate, showcase accomplishments
and improve grant related workflow efficiencies.
The RDB2RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working
Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for Mapping Relational Databases
to RDF. This document examines a set of use cases from science and
industry, taking relational data and exposing it in patterns conforming
to shared RDF schemata. These use cases expose a set of functional
requirements for exposing relational data as RDF in the RDB2RDF
Mapping Language (R2RML).
A recently described semantic web protocol, the Simple Semantic
Web Architecture and Protocol (SSWAP; pronounced "swap")
offers the ability to describe data and services in a semantically
meaningful way. We report how three major information resources
(Gramene, SoyBase and the Legume Information System [LIS]) used
SSWAP to semantically describe selected data and web services.
A recent San Diego Refresh meeting found me in a room full of fellow
geeks learning about microdata and the semantic web. What I thought
was going to be a new look at SEO turned out to be a very in-depth
look at where the web might be heading.
A comprehensive overview over advabnces in machine learning and
related techniques starting from the 17th century. Enjoy!
The Semantic Web is coming and an oil disaster like the one we're
experiencing in the Gulf might help move up its timetable. Since
Web 3.0's semantic technology is predicated on everything in our
physical world being tagged with its own Internet address - once
in place - any body will be able to monitor any type of operation
via the Web - even off-shore drilling.
Hanamura is working to create a tool, Viewchange.org, which helps
consumers of media find exactly the stories they want. The Gates
Foundation commissioned Viewchange.org to solve the problem of story
telling around their work. It will be focused on telling stories
of social progress and challenges, but will be applicable more broadly.
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