Computer World
The Semantic Web is a visionary project that aims to enhance the usability and usefulness of the Web by enabling computers to find, read, understand and use the content of Web documents to accomplish tasks via automated agents and Web-based services.
Tim Berners-Lee – the Oxford University graduate who invented the Web in 1989, wrote [...]

Medical News Today
The final day of the conference is entitled ‘The Impact of the Web on Health’ and scrutinizes the way the net has revolutionised the relationship between health professionals and the general public.
Delegates will hear speeches on patient confidentiality, the impact of the Semantic Web on healthcare and the use and management of healthcare [...]

TMCnet
The Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2006), promises to confirm the rapid growth in adoption of semantic technologies when over a dozen customer case studies are presented during the conference on March 6-9, 2006, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.
Semantics is quickly emerging as THE hot industry sector, and for good reason. According to [...]

infomesh.net
This document is designed as being a simple but comprehensive introductory publication for anybody trying to get into the Semantic Web: from beginners through to long time hackers.
The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think [...]

TCMnet
W3C invites the public to a Web Services Seminar entitled “Using Web services: from infrastructure to semantics” on 6 March 2006 at the Palais Brongniart in Paris, France.
Focusing on semantic enhancements to Web services applications, this free event provides concrete examples of business challenges and how they have been resolved through the use of Web [...]

Government Computer News
Ex-Homeland Security Department metadata chief Michael Daconta may have trumpeted the Resource Description Framework in his 2003 book The Semantic Web, but for most shops, the benefits of RDF have remained academic.
The good news is that RDF now has a powerful sponsor to help spur adoption. Oracle Corp. of Redwood Shores, Calif., has [...]

Intelligent Enterprise
What is the Semantic Web and how can it help you? The concept may help solve tough corporate information-management problems.
The technology behind semantics includes linguistic programming, artificial intelligence, content management and a few new areas as well. The motivation behind it can be attributed to Tim Berners-Lee and a group of Web devotees who [...]

WWW2006
15th International World Wide Web Conference
Edinburgh, Scotland (23-26 May, 2006)
The World Wide Web Conference is the global event to bring together the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, businesses and standards bodies shaping the future of the web. This year’s event will feature numerous workshops focused on Semantic Web technologies.
Reasoning on the Web (RoW06)
This workshop aims [...]

ZDNet
The use of conventional information retrieval technology does not support the semantics of the application task. Neyir Sevilmis from the coordinating organisation, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, explains further: “We took a semantic Web-based approach because semantic Web technologies are quite promising and offer new possibilities in the field of knowledge management, retrieval effectiveness [...]

SemTech 2006
2006 Semantic Technology Conference
San Jose, California, USA (March 6-9, 2006)
Semantics is a hot industry sector right now – a $2 billion per year market and projected to grow to over $50 billion by the year 2010. Leading analysts have estimated that 35-65% of our System Integration costs are due to Semantic issues. And in [...]