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Semantic Web Company Newsletter 19 August, 2008 EDITORIAL The Semantic Web goes eCommerce Dear subscriber! An Austrian research project just took a huge step in bringing Semantic Web principles to eCommerce: GoodRelations developed a vocabulary to describe product promotions on the web. According to project member Martin Hepp "this allows search engines to support more precise search, and partners in the value chain to automate their content integration tasks." The ontology is available under a Creative Commons License and ready to use. This development goes in line with a recent interview on ZDNet in which John Davies from British Telecom talks about the commercial viability of Semantic Web technologies. According to Davies we will see a lot of new applications in the next 12 to 18 months - exciting times are ahead of us! P.S. One of the places to explore and discuss these new horizons is the TRIPLE-I conference, 3-5 September 2008, in Graz! With best regards, The Semantic Web Company
VOICES Corinna Bath: "Gender research - a fruitful inspiration for the Semantic Web?"
VOICES Jiri Kopsa & Ryan Kennedy: "Niche applications help solve very specific problems."
SWC UPDATE New trainings & seminars: open & inhouse
SWC UPDATE Triplification challenge: The nominees
SWC UPDATE Planet RDF aggregates SWC blog
SWC UPDATE Geotagging in Vienna: youXcity launch
MARKET SCAN Semantic web on verge of commercial viability?
MARKET SCAN An emerging field: Semantic Integration
MARKET SCAN Freebase Parallax: Browsing ad infinitum
TECHNOLOGY SCAN UMBEL: New fixed star in global knowledge space!
TECHNOLOGY SCAN A success story for open APIs: CrunchBase
TECHNOLOGY SCAN SCOT: Let's share tags!
BLOG SCAN Why Cuil got all the attention
BLOG SCAN Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender?
BLOG SCAN Semantic aggregation and hive intelligence
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What are the benefits of wikis, blogs or social bookmarking for enterprises? What are the requirements in terms of company culture? The book discusses the foundations of web 2.0 and illustrates its uses drawing on case studies of large and small scale enterprises, e.g. IBM, Deutsche Bahn, SUN Microsystems and PSI AG (publication in German).
Event Tip TRIPLE-I 2008 WED, 03 SEP - FRI, 05 SEP 2008, Graz, Austria TRIPLE-I reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic systems. This unique concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields. TRIPLE-I is a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS.
Event Tip Digitale Soziale Netze MON 8 - SAT 13 SEP 2008, Munich, Germany This workshop on digital social networks will have a look at new form of collaboration enabled by social software and examine issues such as privacy, data protection and identity, ubiquitous access, interoperability and data exchange, media presence in open and semi open forums and related sociological phenomena.
Event Tip KI 2008 THU, 23 SEP - FRI, 26 SEP 2008, Kaiserlautern, Germany KI 2008 brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The technological track of KI 2008 comprises paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials and is highlighted by a number of invited talks from different research areas.
Event Tip WOD-PD 2008 | Web of Data Practitioners Days WED, 22 OCT - THU, 23 OCT 2008, Vienna, Austria The Web of Data Practitioners Days is a new application-oriented event for Semantic Web practitioners and interested newcomers. In a cooperative effort, four major Austrian institutions, which have actively been conducting research in that area throughout the past years, will set the stage for this event.
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As a researcher and lecturer, Corinna Bath is concerned with gender
studies in computer science and working on a thesis “Towards a De-Gendered
Design of Information Technologies”. Marion Fugléwicz-Bren spoke
with her about the possible implications of gender stereotypes for
the Semantic Web.
Ryan Kennedy and Jiri Kopsa from 
As the Semantic Web grows more mature, the training and consultation
needs within the industry change accordingly. For the autumn course
term 2008, the Semantic Web Company is introducing a new curriculum:
Open seminars for those looking for a general foundation, inhouse
seminars for clients who prefer to address their specific needs
in a private seminar.
Tim Ferguson from ZDNet UK reports a recent assessment of the state
of the Semantic Web by John Davies, head of next-generation web
research at British Telecom. Davies: "We've really seen the emergence
of semantic web from the research lab. We're just on the cusp of
R&D to a range of real world applications." 
Semantic Integration is defined as "a specialized field of practice
dedicated to using Semantic Design Principles, Methodologies and
technology as a facilitating mechanism to help solve enterprise-level
problems for IT" (Stephen Lahanas). Loraine Lawson notes that Semantic
integration has now become an emerging field and offers reasons
why you should care (or not).
With David Huynh’s Freebase Parallax, an inspiring new user interface
has come out, which conveys a sense of a future where googling is
no longer the ultimate way to find information on the web. Andreas
Blumauer writes about scenarios where he would prefer Parallax over
Google and Wikipedia. 
Beginning of July, TechCruch launched their CrunchBase API which
"offers access to information from thousands of tech companies,
VCs and startup entrepreneurs". Barely two weeks later, and giving
proof of the creativity triggered by open APIs, Rob Olson was able
to present and discuss his favourites among the "great apps using
the CrunchBase API".
ReadWriteWeb
examines how Cuil, a new search engine launched by former Google
employees, managed to get truly ginourmous amounts of publicity
on Day 1. One eminent reason of course was just that: the fact that
Cuil is the brain child of former Googlistas. But will Cuil be able
to sustain the buzz beyond Week 1? 
Matt Williamson at Technology Story discusses semantic aggregation
as an alternative to semantic search engines. He takes LOUD3R as
an example, which is "not a semantic search engine, but rather a
network of collected, sorted and categorized sites in topical sections"
and concludes: "We can’t get the machine near the correct rule unless
we understand them ourselves." Semantic technology does not render
human intelligence obsolete. Therefore: Let's bring the hive on!
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