Information Society Technologies A quiet revolution is coming our way. Recent successful trials of European semantic-Web applications suggest that machine-readable data will soon usher in an improved Web that will facilitate information reuse, and provide for painless building and maintenance of community portals. “Computers struggle to attach meaning to information written in common Web languages [...]

TechnologyReview.com Sometimes it makes sense to give away your core assets For a company that makes its APIs public, the real trick is figuring out how it will be rewarded. And in this respect, too, Amazon has done exceedingly well, signing up thousands of programmers who are sending it millions of hits a day, though [...]

eWeek.com The Semantic Web will rely on RDF and OWL to make data available and accessible via the Internet We tend to take for granted all that is done without much fanfare behind the scenes, yet without which we could not enjoy the benefits of advancing technology and society. The creation of computing standards is [...]

XML.com Although many are still inclined to shy away from the Semantic Web project, there’s a marked increase in serious debate and coverage. A few recent happenings have excited my interest. The unthinkable rapprochement between topic maps and RDF has occurred, signified by the formation of the W3C RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Task Force. The task [...]

Onlypunjab.com IBM and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, announced today that they are working together to study how the development of a grid-based, distributed computing infrastructure can facilitate improved collaboration and information sharing among cancer researchers. Working with leading cancer researcher Dr. Thomas Deisboeck, M.D., of MGH’s Martinos Center [...]

News-Medical.Net UK scientists have designed a knowledge management system which could enable medical practitioners to make speedy, informed decisions about breast cancer patients. The project pulls together information which was previously held in separate locations and it has the potential to revolutionize patient diagnosis and management The MIAKT project (Medical Imaging with Advanced Knowledge Technologies), [...]

TheManufacturer.com More companies are beginning to learn about the semantic Web, which promises to help them achieve greater integration within their supply chains In many ways, the Web has reached a certain level of maturity. Most of the general population has heard of the Web; many have regular access. Turning to the Web for the [...]

BusinessWeek Tim Berners-Lee is working on the “Semantic Web,” with its richer information links that unlock the power of “unplanned reuse of data” Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in the late 1980s while working as a researcher at the Geneva-based European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). He’s now at the Massachusetts Institute of [...]