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Semantic Web Company Newsletter February 17, 2010 EDITORIAL Could have Linked Data help to avoid (hypothetical) climate fraud? Dear Subscriber ! I recently stepped over a wicked story uncovered by NY Times in November 2009 about a group of climatologists being accused for manipulating climate data to mute climate change sceptics. While the story behind this is in my opinion more a storm in a tea cup then serious fraud business (i.c. think of the scandal in certificate trading that popped up in summer 2009), I was wondering whether the decentralization paradigm inherent to linked data would have avoided such a fuzz by simply enabling more experts to access, analyze and interpret the data on their own and for their own purposes. Taking the discourse into account that unfolded around this case over the past few weeks much of it implicitely circulates about the question of data access and control. And while covering this story I stepped over a really nice feature
on the NY Times
site. Highlight a term in a text and click on the question mark
above, i.e. With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES Christof Peltason: "Enhanced processing of user profiles seems to be a first step towards commercially interesting Linked Data applications."
SWC UPDATE Q&A sessions on Semantic Web and related topics
SWC UPDATE New Survey: Scenarios of the Future Web
SWC UPDATE Call for Papers: I-SEMANTICS 2010
MARKET SCAN IBM Wants to Patent Semantic Web Tag Clouds
MARKET SCAN Semantic Web Already Having an Impact says Bing
MARKET SCAN IPDR - Is it a blessing?
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Hands-on: semantic desktop starts to show in KDE SC 4.4
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Making things with data.gov.uk - Part 1
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Yahoo! looks beyond Google's data cruncher
BLOG SCAN Linking Open Data to Thesaurus Management
BLOG SCAN The Semantic Web: Win-Win Solution for the Toyota Mess?
BLOG SCAN Social networkers rate future technology products with their tweets
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Save the date! Semantic Web Meetup - Open Governmental Data April 8, 2010, Vienna / Austria The next Semantic Web Meetup will take place at the Austrian Computer Society. The special focus will be on Open Governmental Data. Watch out for more deatils soon! Event Tip Leipzig Semantic Web Day May 5 - 6, 2010, Leipzig / Germany
After the great success of the first Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT) in 2009 AKSW is organizing another installment of this event on 6th May. In addition to demonstrating the benefits of semantic technologies to enterprises, this year’s LSWT focuses on Open Data in science and E-government. A particular highlight will be the festive announcement of the German chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
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The past few years on the web have been all about tagging. Tagging
blog posts, tagging products, tagging pictures, etc. Blogs often
times represent their tags in tag clouds. But what is that, other
than a collection of links weighted by the number of times the content
has been tagged? IBM wants to improve upon tagging, bringing the
idea of the semantic web to tag clouds. And it just filed a patent
application for the idea.
Microsoft Bing head Scott Prevost said search engines are getting
smarter thanks to Semantic Web technology. The promise of the Semantic
Web, where users can make natural-language queries and get accurate,
timely results, is starting to be realized, insiders say. But while
that's good news considering the buzz long surrounding the Semantic
Web (define) and its supporters' sizable promises for the technology,
it's not always an easy transition. 
In an ongoing discussion at 
Last week, the KDE community officially released KDE Software Compilation
4.4, a significant update of the open source desktop environment
and its associated application stack. The new version delivers some
user interface improvements, enhanced usability, new features, additional
software, and a number of important bug fixes.
Last Thursday saw the beta release of the UK Government Data platform,
data.gov.uk. There's a lot of fascinating and useful data in there
and we thought we'd make something and describe the process as we
go in a sort of diary of a government and Guardian DataStore driven
app. Today we're going to talk about retrieving some data using
SPARQL from the Edubase store.
Nowadays, when it comes to crunching epic amounts of web data, Google's
MapReduce credo is all the rage. The Mountain View method of distributing
back-end compute tasks across a sea of commodity machines has given
rise to the open source Hadoop platform, which now underpins Yahoo!,
Facebook, and even a chunk of Microsoft Bing. But for Ron Brachman
- the former Bell Labs and DARPA man who now serves as vice president
of Yahoo! labs and research - a future interwebs may need something
very different.
The Vienna-based company 
For most, the Semantic Web (or, as some call it, Web 3.0), remains
a future vision whose uses and value are still questionable. Instead,
I suggest we should accelerate the transition to the Semantic Web,
because it offers pragmatic, affordable solutions to many of our
most pressing problems. Let's look at one of those problems that's
in the headlines due to the Toyota recalls: how to create a new
and more effective means to improve product safety (while I will
concentrate on cars, it could apply to all products).
Apple's recently announced iPad has generated a lot of buzz on the
internet, specifically on social networking site Twitter. Business
software applications firm Attensity used their semantic analysis
application suite to analyze a total of 55,000 iPad-related tweets.
Tweets about Apple's iPad posted in the lead-up to Apple's massive
launch event on January 27 were compared to comments posted on the
site two hours after the event and again with those made four days
later.
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