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Semantic Web Company Newsletter 27 January, 2009 EDITORIAL Obama & Web 3.0 Dear reader! A warm welcome to the first newsletter in 2009, a year that - according to Read Write Web Semantic Web Wish List 2009 (don't take it too serious!) - will hold a lot of promises and surprises for all Semantic Web afficionados out there. From our perspective we expect a semantic boom in the media industries, fostering convergence and new business models, and bringing "semantics to the home". Yes, and finally the omnipresent U.S. president elect has even made it into the SWC newsletter ... for a good reason: according to recent posts from W3C's Danny Weitzer [1, 2], who was a member of one governmental advisory group, the Obama administration is planning deep transitions in the U.S. Technology and Innovation Policy cocentrating on Health IT, Broadband, and smart grid. TechNewsWorld reports that the new government is eager to bring more citizen into the political process by using Web 2.0 technologies. And the new CTO could even be a strong Web 3.0 advocate - Padmasree Warrior, currently CTO at Cisco Systems. (Read the blog post.) As said before, 2009 holds a lot of promises and surprises for the development of the Semantic Web. With best regards, The Semantic Web Company
VOICES Adrian Paschke: "Corporate Semantic Web also addresses the pragmatic aspects of using Semantic Web technologies."
SWC UPDATE New seminars available now!
SWC UPDATE Web Awareness Barometer 2008: Cordial thanks to all participants!
SWC UPDATE I-Semantics 2009 - Call for Papers
MARKET SCAN The Linked Content Economy: Thomson Reuters Open Calais Toolkit to Create More Intelligent Applications
MARKET SCAN Semantic technology shopping is created
MARKET SCAN Google CEO Hints at Semantic, Contextual Search
TECHNOLOGY SCAN How Mosembro Uses Microformats to Improve Usability
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Semantic E-Mail Delivery
TECHNOLOGY SCAN BBC Tests Web 3.0 Technology for Music
BLOG SCAN Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?
BLOG SCAN Will Web 3.0 affect SEO?
BLOG SCAN New hakia semantic site search box launched
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Semantic Web - Concepts and Applications The Semantic Web brings to the Web, the idea of having data defined and linked in a way that it can be used for more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse across various applications. This book dwells on the concept, evolution, and some of the issues associated with semantic web.
Event Tip Data Governance Conference Europe 2009 Monday, 02. February 2009 to Wednesday, 04. February 2009, London / UK Data Governance has emerged as a new discipline in response to both regulatory requirements as well as business necessity. Data Governance is an absolute necessity for all organisations today, even more so given the current economic climate.
Event Tip SIWN2009: Systemics and Informatics World Network Monday, 23. March 2009 to Wednesday, 25. March 2009, Leipzig / Germany The Second SIWN Congress (SIWN 2009) aims to provide a distinctive premier international forum for active researchers, developers, professionals and academics from different domains and with diversified backgrounds to get together, to share state-of-the-art research achievements and practical experiences, to exchange in-depth findings and innovative ideas, and in particular to harness the greatest challenges and think seriously into the future.
Event Tip WM 2009: Professionelles Wissensmanagement - Erfahrungen und Visionen Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 bis Freitag, 27. März 2009, Solothurn / Switzerland Die zweijährlich stattfindende Konferenz Professionelles Wissensmanagement will einen breiten integrativen Überblick über die organisatorischen, kulturellen, sozialen und technischen Aspekte des Wissensmanagements liefern.
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Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) deals with the application of Semantic
Web technologies within enterprise settings. Prof. Adrian Paschke,
head of the 
On May 6 & 7, 2009 we offer new seminars for Semantic Web newbies.
The seminars are designed for people who search for a compact and
comprehensive entry into the topics Web 2.0, Social Web and Semantic
Web. A strong emphasis will be on the corporate use of social software
and semantic web technologies.
Thomson Reuters recently announced Calais 4.0, ‘a web service
that uses natural language processing technology to semantically
tag text that is input to the service. The tags are delivered to
the user who can then incorporate them into other applications -
for search, news aggregation, blogs, catalogs, you name it.’
Researchers at Toshiba's Corporate Research and Development Center,
in Japan said shoppers often have only a sales representative's
word for whether a particular brand or model has a good reputation.
But now Takahiron Kawamura and colleagues have developed the WOM,
or Word-of-Mouth, Scouter to allow shoppers to get the latest reviews
for a product while they are shopping.
With financial analysts, online ad-focused press and pundits bowing
to Google's fourth quarter success, a jaw-dropping feat considering
the recession and woes of rivals Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL, Google
CEO Eric Schmidt discussed not only what got Google there, but what
will help Google grow in the future. Schmidt said that Google's
core focus is on the "huge, untapped potential in search ads,"
noting that future search for Google should be more dynamic.
Two widely lauded benefits of microformats (and semantic markup
in general) are data portability and code reuse. A third benefit,
perhaps not as widely accepted, is usability. Of course, it should
come as no surprise that with data portability and better code reusability,
the user experience within an application can be improved, yet the
jump from the former to the latter isn’t an automatic one.
A prototype e-mail system being tested at Stanford University later
this year will radically change how users specify where their messages
are supposed to be delivered. Called SEAmail, for "semantic
e-mail addressing," the system allows users to direct a message
to people who fulfill certain criteria without necessarily knowing
recipients' e-mail addresses, or even their names.
The BBC artists pages, a repository of information on singers and
bands played on several BBC radio stations, have been running as
a closed beta project since June last year. But the project is more
than just putting factual data onto a web page—it's about
gathering information around an artist and using semantic web technology
to link to other resources that give users more than just facts
and figures. 
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search
results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and
other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic
structured information. Who is Bill Clinton's wife? What's the capital
city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears' mother's name? The answers
to these and other factual questions are now displayed above natural
search results in Google and the information is structured in the
traditional subject-predicate-object format, or "triples,"
of semantic web parlance.
A post from Tom Wilde on 
Web technology firm hakia has released the latest version of its
semantic Search Box product. The company promised in its blog that
the new application is an improvement on previous editions, with
sentence highlighting and the ability to search multiple domains
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