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Semantic Web Company Newsletter March 29, 2010 EDITORIAL UK takes a big leap towards the Semantic Web Dear Subscriber ! It has been well covered over the last few weeks. The British government gives an initial grant of £30 million to the Institute for Web Science which will be run by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Beside its academic research agenda focussing on Semantic Web and complementary internet technologies the institute will also assist in commercialising semantic web technologies, helping British tech companies to develop new semantic web technologies and sell them in markets around the world. UK has also been a forerunner in the Open Government Data initiative that has been spreading worldwide over the past few months and which utilizes Semantic Web standards to improve the access to public data. On April 8, 2010 the Vienna Semantic Web Meetup will catch up to bring this initiative to Austria. With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES Georgi Kobilarov: "I believe that data publishing must happen in a distributed style."
VOICES Marco Neumann: "It's definitely an exciting time to be on the Semantic Web!"
SWC UPDATE Open Government Data - Meetup of the Vienna Semantic Web Group
SWC UPDATE Triplification Challenge 2010 - Call for Submissions
MARKET SCAN British Gov't to Invest £30 Million in Semantic Web
MARKET SCAN Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation
MARKET SCAN Putting the Semantic Web to work in e-Commerce with GoodRelations
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Releasing catalogue data: Cologne-based libraries to pioneer Open Data practices
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Open Data, Government Gains Momentum in U.S. with Project Open311
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Developing web technologies to share secure information
BLOG SCAN 10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should Use 'Linked Data'
BLOG SCAN Why Your Phone Will Soon Replace Your Laptop
BLOG SCAN Beyond Twitter Search: Semantic Analysis of the Real-Time Web
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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.
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.
Event Tip Semantic Technology Conference 2010 Monday, 21. - Friday, 25. June 2010, San Francisco
SemTech 2010 features five days of presentations, panels, tutorials, announcements, new company/product launches, and conversations. It is the only event focused on the commercialization of semantic technologies, bringing the most recognized people, knowledge, thought-leadership and innovation from the semantic community together at one location. The SemTech conference draws together over 1,000 forward-thinking technology and business leaders from around the world, representing the entire marketplace of vendors, developers, researchers, start-ups, investors and customers.
Event Tip I-Semantics 2010 - 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems Wednesday, 01. - Friday, 03. September 2010, 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.
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Marco Neumann is an Information Scientist and CEO of KONA a consulting
and technology service company based in New York City. The Semantic
Web activist is an invited expert to the W3C HTML 5 working group.
He recently started a discussion on the challenges and difficulties
in bringing the Semantic Web into business. SWC asked him for some
additional comments.
The Austrian semantic web community is underway to start an initiative
to publish publicly funded data on the web, following the good practice
in UK, US, AUS and NZ. We want Austria to be in that international
leading group! Support us by joining our meetup!
The British government has invested £30 million (US$45 million),
in a research center to further develop Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic
Web. The center, to be called the Institute for Web Science, will
be run by Berners-Lee, who formulated the basic protocols for the
Web, along with University of Southampton artificial intelligence
professor Nigel Shadbolt
After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar
Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup.
Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks,
along with its core technical team and its main product, Twine.
Rumors surfaced yesterday on ReadWriteWeb that Evri was being acquired,
but that is not the case. Evri is the acquirer.
Millions of us rely upon online information to inform purchasing
decisions, but the ad hoc fashion in which free-text descriptions
of products and services are interpreted and offered up by mainstream
search engines makes this a far less accurate process than we might
wish. Working quietly behind the scenes the GoodRelations vocabulary
is setting out to do something about this, and with adopters such
as Best Buy already onboard they’re off to a great start.
Cologne-based libraries and the Library Centre of Rhineland-Palatinate
(LBZ) in cooperation with the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service
Center (hbz) are the first German libraries to adopt the idea of
Open Access for bibliographic data by publishing their catalog data
for free public use. The University and Public Library of Cologne
(USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University
Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne and the
LBZ are taking the lead by releasing their data. The release of
bibliographic data forms a basis for linking that data with data
from other domains in the Semantic Web.
If you live in the US or Canada you probably know that you can dial
911 for emergency services and 411 for directory assistance. However,
did you know that many communities in these two countries offer
311 service as well? The Open311 project promises to bring 311 services
into the digital age.
Dr. Lalana Kagal and fellow researchers at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology are developing a standard policy language to achieve
flexible and dynamic Web security when information is shared between
agencies, countries and organizations. The research, funded under
the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program,
supports recent Ph.D. graduates and encourages basic research like
that of Kagal and her team members, Fatih Turkmen and Matt Cherian.
On a news organization's list of priorities, publishing articles
as "linked data" probably comes slightly above remembering
to turn the computer monitors off in the evening, and slightly below
getting a new coffee machine. It shouldn't, and I'll share 10 reasons
why.
Of course, our human friends are some of the best recommendation
engines. Semantic Web tools like Glue are helping more and more
of us digest our friends’ opinions on books, movies and music,
and social news sites like StumbleUpon are doing the same thing
for websites and news. There’s also the increasing propensity
for stuff-sharing on Facebook, complete with links. And tools like
Tumblr are helping us more quickly find and “curate”
the weird things we like online, so that we can call upon a database
of our favorite stuff to show to others.
What Ellerdale is doing with Twitter's 50 million tweets per day
is definitely interesting - the service uses an intelligent data-parsing
engine to analyze the context of tweets and the links they contain
and combines that with other data sources like RSS feeds and Wikipedia
to create a real-time search engine and trends tracker that provides
more than just a list of tweets - it provides an understanding of
the world's conversations.
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