DMReview “The semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of [...]

ZDNet UK For years the Semantic Web has been a much-deride pipe dream. Now it’s starting to come together and is being championed by the W3C we ask the question: do we need it? Is the “Semantic Web” the new Internet, or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve? That’s a question [...]

Business Week First, IT departments are much tighter with their cash, demanding to see a return on investment before buying, but rarely going back and checking to see if expected outcomes were achieved. Second, companies see few exciting IT developments on the horizon. When Cohan asked IT execs if the have seen anything exciting lately [...]

Sydney Morning Herald Grand challenges aren’t solved overnight, even by the brightest brains. Some, such as the web, need a first, rough draft before they reach their potential. The “semantic web” is like the web on steroids, version 2.0 of the killer application that sent the internet mainstream and resulted in the greatest flow of [...]

SOA Web Services Journal As the Semantic Web gains momentum, it’s important for Web service developers to keep abreast of its technologies and prepare for a change in their industry This article looks at how the Semantic Web applies to Web services, including what specifications are under development and how you might prepare for integration [...]

eWeek.com Politicians are happily claiming affiliation with technology as a way to say both that they’re hip and they can fundraise That’s an acceptance that’s going to echo through Congress very quickly and cross party lines. Politicians who see their business—politics—shifting its focus to smaller, state-level organizations (and the Internet-driven fundraising machines that can work [...]

XML.com Taxonomies have long played a central role in both medical and library science for the classification of medical terms and books. Recently, the U.S. federal government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Data Reference Model (DRM). The FEA DRM specifies three abstract layers of an organization’s information: business [...]

BillingWorld.com To define customers and services consistently, Web Services standards for creating business registries have emerged to make data semantically interoperable, which is particularly difficult when multiple legacy applications support different functions. For service providers to measure how actions impact services and underlying infrastructure, they must give consistent semantics to services. “We have been working [...]

Always On Google’s director of search quality discusses challenges of automation, knowledge, spam, and even politics There are four individual challenges. First is a chicken-and-egg problem: How do we build this information, because what’s the point of building the tools unless you got the information, and what’s the point of putting the information in there [...]

TechnologyReview.com The intelligence reform bill evaded real reform It is well within our power to create a flatter, more distributed knowledge management system that makes all data within the government available to users in real time regardless of agency affiliation, simply based on privileges assigned to them. But we don’t have it yet. Nonetheless, the [...]