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Semantic Web Company Newsletter 27 March, 2009 EDITORIAL Happy Birthday, World Wide Web! Dear Reader ! 20 years and still growing! The World Wide Web - one of the most astonishing phenomena in media history - has celebrated its 20th anniversary this month. Invented in March 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at the CERN in Switzerland the web has profoundly altered the way we used to communicate, connect and inform each other. But although 20 years of age it seems that the web's state of maturity has just begun, taken the fact, that Tim Berners Lee first drafted his ideas about the Semantic Web back in 1994. And looking at the current developments i.e. in the search market, it seems obvious that the future of the web will be semantic. In this respect: live long and prosper, World Wide Web! With best regards, The Semantic Web Company
VOICES Enterprise Search goes Open Source
VOICES Once in the net, forever in the net? (ORF, Newton)
SWC UPDATE New Semantic Web seminars available!
SWC UPDATE I-Semantics 2009 - Call for Papers - Extended Deadline till April 6, 2009
MARKET SCAN The Financial Times Launches Its Own Business News Search Engine
MARKET SCAN Open-Xchange to Launch Open Data Cloud
MARKET SCAN Semantic Intelligence - The Next-Generation of Business Intelligence
TECHNOLOGY SCAN OASIS Members Approve Open Standard for Accessing Unstructured Information
TECHNOLOGY SCAN M.I.T. Lists Intelligent Virtual Agents, a Semantic Web Application by Botégo, one of the Emerging Technologies of 2009
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Google Implements ‘Orion’ Technology, Improves Search Refinements
BLOG SCAN Obama’s Groundbreaking use of the Semantic Web
BLOG SCAN The Semantic Web: A Treasure Trove for Marketers
BLOG SCAN CIA, NSA Adopting Web 2.0 Strategies
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Semantic Web For Dummies Semantic Web technology is already changing how we interact with data on the Web. By connecting random information on the Internet in new ways, Web 3.0, as it is sometimes called, represents an exciting online evolution. Whether you’re a consumer doing research online, a business owner who wants to offer your customers the most useful Web site, or an IT manager eager to understand Semantic Web solutions, Semantic Web For Dummies is the place to start!
Event Tip World Wide Web Conference 2009 Monday, 20. April 2009 to Friday, 24. April 2009, Madrid / Spain The World Wide Web Conference is the global event that brings together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web.
Event Tip ESWC2009: 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference Sunday, 31. May 2009 to Thursday, 04. Juni 2009, Criti / Greece The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form.
Event Tip 2009 ISPIM Conference - The Future of Innovation Sunday, 21. Juni 2009 to Wednesday, 24. Juni 2009 The 2009 ISPIM Conference - The Future of Innovation - will be held in Vienna, Austria on 21-24 June 2009. Organised by ISPIM, hosted by The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, and supported by DANUBE - European Programmes for Training, Research and Technology and Ratio Strategy & Innovation Consulting, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management.
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The Open Source Initiative, SMILA "SeMantic Information Logistics
Architecture", was mutually launched at the end of 2007 by
empolis, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI) and brox IT Solutions GmbH to create a standardized infrastructure
for information management. The project is embedded into the work
of the eclipse community, which consists of more than 180 companies
and research institutions, which all have the common objective of
developing open and standardized platforms. Since June 2008, SMILA
attained the status of an official eclipse project and is co-funded
through the THESEUS project by the German Federal Ministry of Economics
and Technology.
On February 28th Tassilo Pellegrini and Andreas Blumauer had a TV-interview
on how social media affects our lives, especially on how the user
can make sure that private data won´t be used improperly,
e.g. by certain internet providers. So the current discussion about
Facebook's privacy policy in the course that they are allowed to
hand over all personal data to any other third party are also discussed
in this episode, like the fact that the internet has definitely
a long-term memory. And that for all contents it is to say: Once
in the net, forever in the net.
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.
The Financial Times Group, which is owned by the British publisher
Pearson, is not exactly the place you’d expect to find the
latest search engine. But a startup deep within the bowels of the
organization called FT Search is launching one at 8PM ET tonight
called Newssift. It is a semantic search engine that sifts through
business news, and it is not half bad, especially for bigger companies
and broader topics. 
Data and personal content exists in many different silos across
the Internet, amd getting them all into a single interface and sharing
them is no easy task. One potential solution to the problem is set
to be demonstrated next week by open source software vendor Open-Xchange
with an approach that uses semantic microformats as a mechanism
for sharing and publishing data in a collaborative manner.
Most people think of traditional business intelligence (BI) as a
collection of business-critical information from inside the enterprise.
However, consumer comments, independent reviews, and market reports
online are crucial pieces of information coming from the outside
that infinitely affect any organization. Applications, blogs, social
networks, and forums where content creation, sharing, and understanding
takes place should be part of business intelligence. Locating and
analyzing this unstructured data can only be carried out with a
different kind of business intelligence solution - one we call semantic
intelligence.
OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today announced
that its members have approved the Unstructured Information Management
Architecture (UIMA) version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that
signifies the highest level of ratification. UIMA standardizes semantic
search and content analytics, providing a common method for meaningfully
accessing data contained in text such as e-mails, blog entries,
news feeds, and notes, as well as in audio recordings, images, and
video.
The new issue of Technology Review Magazine published by MIT listed
Intelligent Virtual Agents as one of the 10 emerging technologies
of 2009. Intelligent virtual agents are able to interact intelligently
with users, reduce support costs, encourage self-service and customer
loyalty, and serve as a branding tool for the enterprise. They provide
a unique, interactive and personal way for users to get answers
and assistance on your website, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Google is announcing two changes to search results this morning.
The first involves the use of longer “snippets” (text
extracts containing the keywords) when users input queries of three
words or more. The objective is to provide more context to help
the user determine if the site is worth visiting. Many search engines
have attempted to address this same problem with visual tools or
“previews” of one sort or another. (Vanessa will postscript
with more detail about snippets.)
In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to
utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented
level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light
on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will
be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by
nothing other then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens
would be able to view where the money was going and how it was going
to be spent.
What is the semantic web, you wonder? Don't worry, you're not alone.
The term "semantic web," or "Web 3.0" as some
folks have started calling it, means different things to different
people. In this post, we'll clarify what it is and why we think
it will play an important role in the world of marketing. Two technologies
in particular (natural-language search and content enhancement)
promise to bring companies much closer to their customers and deliver
to consumers more relevant content than ever before.
In addition to Intellipedia, social and Web-inspired software is
becoming the next great tool for the intelligence community. While
the United States intelligence community may have gotten a lot of
publicity for its Wikipedia-like Intellipedia Web site, agencies
like the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency
are ramping up their use of other social and Web-inspired software
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