Archive for January, 2006

Semantic Web The Revolutionary Insider Web Technology

January 26th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in News

Self SEO
The Semantic Web will help to bring much needed “structure” to all that valuable content on the Web, making sure that software “agents” can go from webpage to webpage, with the swift grace of a human Internet user.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but simply an extension of the current one, where [...]

Yahoo Integrates Personal & Social Search with MyWeb 2.0

January 26th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Business, News

Search Engine Watch
Despite its rough edges, MyWeb 2.0 is an innovative, thoughtful approach to personalized and community-based search. Many of the new features are genuine steps toward the creation of the semantic web, the next generation “intelligent” web envisioned by web creator Tim Berners-Lee.
MyWeb 2.0 is currently bi-directional, meaning you need to invite someone to [...]

Introducing SKOS

January 26th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in News, Technology

XML.com
SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), recently introduced by the W3C, is a model for expressing knowledge organization systems in a machine-understandable way, within the framework of the Semantic Web. The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an RDF (Resource Description Framework) application. Using RDF allows data to be linked and merged with other RDF data by Semantic [...]

Semantic Web Interest Grows

January 26th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Business, Health, News

Bio-IT World
Tonya Hongsermeier, corporate manager, clinical knowledge management and decision support at Partners HealthCare System, and her colleague Vipul Kashyap, senior medical informatician at Partners, discussed some of the work the company is doing with Semantic Web -based decision support systems.
“We need an actionable decision support system that works in the context of [an organization's] [...]

Advanced Software Development for Web Applications

January 23rd, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Education, News

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
The Web has developed considerably over the last ten years from a mechanism for distributing simple text and images and is now used to deliver complex interactive applications. Within HE it is widely used in a diverse range of information service areas including e-learning, portal development, Virtual Research Environments and [...]

Disruptive Technologies: Semantic Web

January 23rd, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Business, News

Managing Automation
Today, when your company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system senses that an important component needed to assemble your highest-margin product is almost out of stock, it dispatches a software agent to a trio of approved suppliers’ catalogs to find the most parts on the best possible terms. Once the part is located, your ERP [...]

Taking a Byte Out of Cybercrime

January 23rd, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Law, News

isubengal.com
While forensics experts dust for cyberfingerprints at the crime scene, others, such as Bhavani Thuraisingham, are on the offensive. As head of the CyberSecurity Research Center at the University of Texas at Dallas and a professor of computer science, Thuraisingham is developing techniques to prevent cybercrime.
Designing safe systems requires a strong understanding of the underlying [...]

The Evolution Of Web Search

January 23rd, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in News

Forbes.com
Imagine you were suffering from a bad case of tennis elbow and wanted to find a doctor who could see you on Saturday. A simple Google search for “doctors” would find some referral services, but it would also produce pages of doctor jokes and medical associations. More significantly, you’d miss all kinds of “physicians” and [...]

How Will Tags Color the Web?

January 18th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in News

ClickZ Network
Are tags a temporary fad or an important addition that will give more structure and value to the Web? The promise of a semantic Web, a Web with associated knowledge or metadata that allow meaningful, context-aware search and navigation, has been around for a while. Yet it remains only a promise.
Could user-tagging deliver on [...]

Improved Data Dealing Drives Drug Discovery

January 16th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Health, News

in-PharmaTechnologist.com
Network Inference’s Cerebra Server Platform combines with BioWisdom’s comprehensive ontologies and deep domain expertise to enable discovery and innovation. They attempt to discover and show associations using a multi-relational ontology.
She summarised by saying the knowledge management landscape was changing, whereby the old technology-enabled data management model was gradually being replaced with technology enabled knowledge management.
“Local [...]