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Semantic Web Company Newsletter December 10, 2009 EDITORIAL Just a few more days till 2010 Dear Reader! Could it be? 2009 is just about to end? But looking back clearly reveals: it was an exciting year for the Semantic Web. Remember the Open Data initiaves from the US and UK governements as well as the New York Times, Drupal's step towards Semantic Web and DERI's data aggregator SIG.MA, to name just a few. And what is to expect for 2010? From our perspective media industries and advertisers will continue to build business around the Semantic Web. We will see a lot more open data bubbles, fuelling the Open Data Cloud and bringing the idea of Linked Data to the corporate world. So let us thank you for your loyality, faith and support! We wish you enjoyable holidays and an untroubled new year. With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES George Anadiotis: "Linked Data brings value by offering an alternative approach to lightweight data integration and mashups."
SWC UPDATE New Semantic Web webinars for 2010
SWC UPDATE Protagonists of Web 3.0 in Austria
SWC UPDATE I-SEMANTICS 2010: Preliminary Conference Announcement
MARKET SCAN Social Networking and Web 3.0
MARKET SCAN Legal issues could impede the march of the Semantic Web
MARKET SCAN Britain looks to take Data.gov concept to the next level
TECHNOLOGY SCAN IPTC G2-Standards Add Power to the News Exchange
TECHNOLOGY SCAN With Klout Comes Influence: Measuring And Modifying List Authority on Twitter
TECHNOLOGY SCAN KDE Software Compilation 4.4-beta1 Out Now: Codename "Kompilation"
BLOG SCAN The Future of Taxonomy (and Taxonomists) in the Enterprise
BLOG SCAN Inside Word: Bing Is ‘Dumbing Down’ Search
BLOG SCAN The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web
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Indexing: From Thesauri to the Semantic Web "Indexing" describes the various traditional and new indexing techniques, providing information professionals and students of library and Information Sciences with a broad and comprehensible introduction to indexing. This title makes difficult and complex techniques understandable. It contains may links to and illustrations from websites where new indexing techniques can be experienced. It provides references for further reading. Readership includes: students and all professionals in Library and Information Services who need an introduction to and an overview of indexing techniques.
Event Tip Paris Datageeks December Meetup Thursday, 17. December 2009, Paris / France First meetup for the Parisian DataGeeks community. Open to everybody. Let's try and see what happens.
Event Tip ICFCA 2010 - 8th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis Monday, 15. - Thursday, 18. March 2010 The conference aims to unify theoretical and applied practitioners using Formal Concept Analysis drawing from the fields of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences, Software Engineering, as well as diverse application domains such as Linguistics or Life Sciences. Other aspects are welcome as well.
Event Tip I-Semantics 2010 - 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems Wednesday, 01. - Friday, 03. September 2009, 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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Before George Anadiotis took the position as R&D Director at
the Greek technology company IMC in February 2009, he worked as
a senior researcher in artificial intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam. Tassilo Pellegrini talked to him about the emerging Linked
Data Movement, its merits and flaws, and the business value that
can be derived from it.
New webinars for a quick start in Semantic Web are available. The
webinars which are provided in cooperation with the Corporate Semantic
Web Working Group from FU Berlin cover crucial issues in building
and deploying a (Corporate) Semantic Web. Within 90 minutes participants
acquire an overview over latest developments and topics like Content-Engineering,
Knowledge Management, Business-Intelligence, E-Business and more.
'If Facebook was a country, it will be fourth largest in the world'.
Such is the volume and usage of social networking sites among organizations.
While some companies use Linkedin to find prospective employees,
others use Twitter or other social network to capture new customers.
The potentials of social networks have become clear to companies,
and thus is the adoption of multiple social networks by organizations
for purposes ranging from collaboration to promotion of their brands.
Here, we take a look at some of the upcoming trends and technologies
in social networking, and how is Web 3.0 going to change the landscape.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Irish Software Association, the
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) and Mason Hayes+Curran
today, Philip Nolan, partner at business law firm Mason Hayes+Curran,
outlined the legal and business issues relating to the Semantic
Web, the next evolution of the World Wide Web. Legal challenges
around the area of data protection and defamation are likely to
raise their head with the arrival of the Semantic Web, the next
version of the World Wide Web, or Web 3.0 to some.
The essential idea of www.data.gov.uk is based on the same one as
Data.gov: Make government data accessible and available for reuse
through a single Web portal. However, the British version, developed
by Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt of the University
of Southampton, could leapfrog Data.gov in one respect: its use
of Semantic Web technology, something Berners-Lee recently encouraged
the stateside Data.gov developers to pursue. 
The IPTC G2-family of standards provides text and multimedia formats
that are designed to make news exchange faster, cheaper and more
accurate. The three IPTC G2-Standards (NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and
SportsML-G2) form a unified XML structure to encapsulate different
types of news; a rich suite of metadata is also available. The design
makes the standards compatible with the Semantic Web.
Measuring individual influence in Social Media is as coveted as
it is elusive. While many tools claim to calculate authority, it
is the definition of influence that requires clarification in order
to grasp the relevance and differences of existing tools and services.
Essentially, Klout measures influence at the topical level, sorting
individuals who demonstrate the ability to drive action within respective
social graphs when discussing particular subjects. 
KDE has released a first preview the KDE Software Compilation (KDE
SC), 4.4 Beta1 The first beta version of KDE SC 4.4 provides a preview
and base for helping to stabilize the next version of the KDE Desktop,
Applications and Development Platform. The Nepomuk Semantic Search
framework has made leaps: A new storage backend makes it a lot faster,
new user interfaces to interact with the Nepomuk database are first
delivered with KDE 4.4.0 and a timeline view of your files makes
finding files used in the past easier.
After having attended this year’s 
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rolled out yet another update to Bing this
week, which adds “entity cards” for some common queries
that include basic data automatically pulled from third-party sources.
(A search for “Harvard College,” for instance, would
include a box of information on the university, including its location
and acceptance rate, above the regular results.) This follows other
Bing initiatives that have streamlined search results; search for
“UPS” in Bing, for instance, and only a listing for
the UPS website shows up among the results.
The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web.
Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more
meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power
of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is
understandable by machines for interpretation. Rather, meaningful
and relevant experiences now are born out of the context of our
identities and social graph: the pragmatics, or contextual meaning,
of our online identities. My Web experience becomes more meaningful
and relevant to me when it is layered with contextual social data
based on my identity. This is the pragmatic Web.| Unsubscribe | Contact |
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