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EDITORIAL Have you done it? Dear Subscriber ! If you haven't done it yet - do it now. Book your flight, check your train tickets or get a friend to drive with! Come to the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems (1 – 3 September 2010)!I'm sure those three days in Graz are full of indeep impressions and illuminating talks. E.g. the lecture given by Marti A. Hearst on user interfaces for search (see also our book review in this Newsletter) will give an insight on how and where Semantic Technologies play their role in search engine design and improvement. But I-Semantics is not only covering very field-specific topics like search, it provides also underpinning knowledge and discussion. So, we are proud to have Peter A Gloor with a talk on his new book “Coolfarming: Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing” on the panel. As I said: If you haven't registered - do it now! See you in Graz and enjoy reading our Newsletter, in the meanwhile best regards, Thomas Thurner
VOICES Stella
Dextre Clarke & Alan Gilchrist about the “Future of Knowledge
Organization on the Web"
SWC UPDATE I-SEMANTICS
2010 in Graz
This year in September i-Semantics will take place for the 6th time and it will be co-located again with i-Know in Graz/Austria. This year´s program shows that the Semantic Web and semantic technologies in general are increasingly relevant for all kind of industries. Do not forget to get your "Earlybird Registration" for the I-SEMANTICS Conference in Graz from September 1 - 3, 2010. You can expect more than 100 talks and a rich social program there.
SWC UPDATE The
fire went on: Open Government - Graz, 31-08-2010
MARKET SCAN Thomson
Reuters sees various commercial adoptions for OpenCalais
TECHNOLOGY SCAN BBC's semantic approach to the world cup
TECHNOLOGY SCAN A
new Drupal derivate for
BLOG SCAN The
Peril and Promise of the Semantic Web
BLOG SCAN Internet
Of Things: China's way to the Semantic Web
BLOG SCAN Easy
Summer Edutainment: The History of Search
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Recent
Publications 
Search User Interfaces This book focuses on the human users of search engines and the tool they use to interact with them: the search user interface. Marti
Hearst summarizes developments, presenting the
state of the art of search interface design, both in academic research
and in deployment in commercial systems. Avaiable
also as online
book.
Save
the date! Kiwi
Release Party
October
10, 2010, KiWi
is a service-oriented platform for building Social Media applications
with functionalities
typically required by Social Media applications like versioning,
(semantic) tagging, rich text editing, easy linking, rating and
commenting, as well as advanced "smart" services like recommendations,
intelligent search, a sophisticated social reputation system,
vocabulary management, and rich visualisation. The
Open Source Project will party it's release 1.0. Be part of it!
Event Tip I-Semantics 2010 - 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 1 -3, 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.
Event Tip 9th
International Semantic Web Conference
November 7-11, 2010, Shanghai, China ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. The
conference will pay particular attention to showcasing scalable and
usable solutions, which bring semantic technologies to web users in
authentic application settings.
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This june Tassilo Pellegrini had
the opportunity to talk with two internationally recognised experts in
the fields of information management and knowledge organization: Alan
Gilchrist and 
After
having a real enlightning meetup on the issue in march 14th at Vienna's
Computer Society, the fire went's on. People in Styria take the torch
and organize a meetup on Open Government Data. A good reason to be in
Graz on the eve of I-Semantics.
Commercial
adoptions of OpenCalais are seen by its vendor for media monitoring,
search engine optimization, reader engagement and corporate governance
(beside others). In this respect Thomson Reuters named four innovative
companies that are pioneering the large-scale and commercial use of its
OpenCalais service to enrich and optimize digital content.They include
Moreover Technologies, a world-leading media aggregation and monitoring
provider; Morris Communications, a top-tier regional publisher; Magus
Ltd., the British pioneer of enterprise website governance, and Prefix,
South Africa's leading Content Management System (CMS). 
How
the Semantic Web can be integrated into a mass-media product, has been
demonstared by the BBC. John O' Donovan describes how semantic
technology being used to manage and publish content on the BBC World
Cup web site. 
Pre-packaged with government data, deployment
components, and everything necessary to have the software up and
running in minutes. Citizen DAN is a previously released Software Suite
for Communities (or local Governments) looking for a way to track the
overall well-being of a neighborhood and its citizens. 
The Harvard based Nieman Report explores "what it means to
be a journalist" with a special focus on shifts within the media
industry. In an recent article Andrew Finlaysonreflect on the role of
the journalist as news gathering become more semantic web driven.
Ron Callari of Investorspot reflects on recent
announcements on china's IT strategy. In his somehow satiric, somehow
serious article he adresses a lot of issues you should consider if you
think on china and the semantic web.
Ppcblog.com shows us how finding stuff on the web became a
20 billion Dollar business. The whole history in one chart - easy to be
scrolled on your small-screen-summer-internet-device. Enjoy!
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