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Semantic Web Company Newsletter November 5, 2009 EDITORIAL Linked Data Flows Dear Reader! Since Tim Berners-Lee held his TED-Talk about Linking Open Data in March this year the topic has evolved into a hot issue. Meanwhile we have seen a rapid growth in Open Data on the web. But a central question is still unsolved: What will a sustainable Linked Data infrastructure look like that meets the requirements of the public and private sector alike? To come to grips with this questions it is important to distinguish between the Linked Data Paradigm, as a methodology to handle distributed data sources, and the Linked Data Cloud, as a manifestion of publicly available resources on the web. According to this we can identify certain types of Linked Data Flows that help us to draw secnarios how Linked Data can be used in various settings i.e. the enterprise domain. If you want to dive deeper into this topic read our blog post about the merits and flaws of Linked Data Flows. With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES Graham Moore: "Topic Maps fits in very well with Web 3.0 and Linked Data."
VOICES Enterprise Search – It's all about linking information
SWC UPDATE SWC offers webinars for quick-start in Semantic Web
SWC UPDATE SWC investigates into the foundations of the Future Internet
MARKET SCAN Industry Consortium Awarded $1.4m for Semantic Technologies
MARKET SCAN The Semantic Web's the Next Frontier
MARKET SCAN Silobreaker Offers News Intelligence Software to Corporate and Government Customers
TECHNOLOGY SCAN W3C OWL 2 Standard Facilitates Information Management and Integration
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Enterprise mashups: Tools build data integrations
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Data.gov.uk opens beta site for developers
BLOG SCAN Licensing of Linked Data
BLOG SCAN What's Holding Up Semantic Integration?
BLOG SCAN Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System
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Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business Pull is the blueprint to the next disruptive wave. Some call it Web 3.0; others call it the semantic web. It's a fundamental transition from pushing information to pulling, using a new way of thinking and collaborating online. Using the principles of this book, you will slash 5-20 percent off your bottom line, make your customers happier, accelerate your industry, and prepare your company for the twenty-first century. It isn't going to be easy, and you don't have any choice. By 2015, your company will be more agile and your processes more flexible than you ever thought possible.
Event Tip TMRA 2009 | 5th International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications Sunday, 11.- Tuesday, 13. November 2009, Leipzig/Germany TMRA 2009 will be the fifth event in the annual series of international conferences on Topic Maps Research and Applications. TMRA is the advanced scientific and industrial forum whose main object is connecting the key players in the Topic Maps community. Here you will find researchers and users in government and industry, as well as the vendors, the luminaries, and the standards creators gathered for an exchange of ideas in a stimulating setting.
Event Tip 3rd Vienna Semantic Web Meetup Monday, 30. November 2009, Vienna/ Austria After the last successful meetup in July 2009 a new chance to get connected with the Vienna Semantic Web Community.
Event Tip LinkedDataCampVienna 2009 Monday, 30. November 2009 to Tuesday, 01. December 2009, Vienna/Austria The 1st Linked Data Camp is taking place in Vienna bringing together people interested in Linking Open Data. The camp is open and free to anybody.
Event Tip SAMT 2009 | 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies Wednesday, 02. December 2009 to Friday, 04. December 2009, Graz/Austria The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT '09) targets at narrowing the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap.
Event Tip European Semantic Technology Conference 2009 Wednesday, 02. December 2009 to Thursday, 03. December 2009, Vienna/Austria The European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC) was established in 2007 to aid in the dissemination of semantic technologies to European industry. ESTC brings together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners within organizations responsible for information technology and systems in one place to learn about how to integrate this unparalleled technology into their operations.
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Graham Moore, CEO of Networked Planet, will be one of the main speakers
at this year's TMRA 2009, the 5th International Conference on Topic
Maps from November 11 - 13 in Leipzig/Germany. Tassilo Pellegrini
talked to him about latest technological developments and how Topic
Maps correspond with the idea of the Semantic Web and Linked Data.
Search has many faces. But which search technologies are best suited
for your purposes? Andreas Blumauer ponders about the diffrences
between internet and intranet search, gives a market overview and
presents some illustrative examples how the trend towards semantic
technologies changes the way we thought search applications work
in the enterprise domain. (Article in German only.)
The webinars of the Semantic Web Company offer basics and practical
knowledge about methologies, technologies and standards of the Semantic
Web. Within 90 minutes you acquire an overview over latest developments
and topics relevant for your business and areas like Content-Engineering,
Knowledge Management, Business-Intelligence, E-Business and more.
Each webinar is a stand-alone-module and can be booked singularly.
Attendance is limited to ten participants.
The objective of the project is to pioneer innovation in the use
of semantic technologies by developing real-world business applications
that streamline sustainability reporting. Titled Semantics and Sustainability,
the cross-disciplinary project will apply semantic technologies
to sustainability reporting, which remains a challenge globally
for organisations that publicly disclose their economic, environmental,
and social performance. 
Innovators in the financial services industry have taken a lead
in applying semantic technology to pressing and chronic data challenges,
many of which stem from the difficulties associated with making
the vast volumes of valuable corporate intelligence locked in everything
from core business applications and data warehouses to Excel spreadsheets
easily accessible and reusable. A recent example of the benefits
of semantic technologies can be found in collapse of the subprime
mortgage market. Financial organizations could not quickly identify
and quantify the exposure to subprime mortgages that might have
existed in their own portfolios. Imagine how things might have turned
out if management teams, shareholders and investors could have been
told exactly what they owned and where it was.
Silobreaker, known primarily for its news search service www.silobreaker.com,
has launched a new software suite for corporate customers and government
agencies looking for more effective ways to monitor and analyze
the news behind their own firewall. Before today, most companies
and agencies had two basic options: free online news search or paid
services from news aggregators or news monitoring firms. Neither
option provides the critical analytical tools to deal effectively
with the avalanche of news content available today. Silobreaker's
software offers a new option for companies wanting to combine news
aggregation with sense-making tools and graphics. 
W3C announces a new version of a standard for representing knowledge
on the Web. OWL 2, part of W3C's Semantic Web toolkit, allows people
to capture their knowledge about a particular domain (say, energy
or medicine) and then use tools to manage information, search through
it, and learn more from it. Furthermore, as an open standard based
on Web technology, it lowers the cost of merging knowledge from
multiple domains. "OWL 2 is the direct result of user experience,"
said Professor Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford and Chair of the
OWL Working Group. "We learned a great deal from real world
applications of OWL. The new version adds both power and speed:
it standardizes those features most requested by OWL users, and
introduces profiles to improve scalability in typical applications."
Organizations have long labored under an outstanding backlog of
data integration, business intelligence and customized reporting
jobs. Over the years a variety of technologies have arisen to address
these or similar problems - most recently, so-called enterprise
mashups. Enterprise mashups have arisen in recent years as a tool
said to let end-users — with some help from developers - build
their own data integrations. Services are central to most of these
offerings — often too are Ajax front-ends. Still, the enterprise
mashup space is notable for diversity. Data staging, publish-and-subscribe
messaging, XML data mining and other traits may be included at different
times.
The Cabinet Office has opened a pilot website making government
data more widely available. The department, which revealed its plans
on a digital engagement blog post earlier this month, has set up
a beta version of www.data.gov.uk for developers to test the potential
for re-using information. A Cabinet Office spokesperson told GC
News: "It comes from one of the recommendations of the Power
of Information review, to release more government data through a
single, accessible portal. We've been committed to it for some time,
since we accepted the findings of the review, and this is the first
stage.
If we are to encourage the sorts of break-out use of data that Tim
Berners-Lee and Tim O’Reilly were discussing at last week’s
Web 2.0 Summit, we need to move past the current laissez-faire approaches
adopted by too many and ensure that there are licensing regimes
in place to enable, facilitate and encourage widespread re-use.
Recently, Dr. Dobb's Journal interviewed Richard Keller, senior
research computer scientist and group lead for the information sharing
and integration group at NASA, about semantic integration. It's
a fascinating discussion, and I particularly liked that Keller addressed
one critical questions I've long wondered about: What's it going
to take to make semantic integration possible for more companies?
Granted, that isn't the question he was asked, so don't try skimming
the interview to find it. The question he was asked was, “What's
the next big hurdle to achieving semantic integration?” He
gave a two-part answer, responding that ontology mapping is the
first big hurdle, and it's long been an issue for the semantic Web
community.
That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook,
Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information
sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché.
It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the
capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the explosive
growth of these technologies. One can be certain however, securocrats
aren’t tweeting their restaurant preferences or finalizing
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