TMCnet “We’re excited that PTC has chosen to include CambridgeDocs tools as part of their Arbortext dynamic publishing solution,” said Kedron Wolcott, vice president engineering at CambridgeDocs. “We engineered our XML conversion products to transform documents into fully formed schemas, and we believe that the agreement with PTC will expand the reach of this capability [...]

ZDNet Wikipedia is built by a passionate community of contributors around the world with a leader, Jimmy Wales, who is inspirational and empowers the others but doesn’t control the entity. He doesn’t hire or fire anyone and the community itself handles dispute resolution and outreach. It’s counter-intuitive, Mitch said, and kind of a big secret [...]

ESWC 2006 Budva, Montenegro (11- 14 June, 2006) The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference will be held in Budva, Montenegro from the 11th – 14th June, 2006. It will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge markup languages, semantic web services, ontology management and more). ESWC 2006 [...]

SemanticWeb.org Athens, Georgia, USA (November 5-9, 2006) ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. ISWC2006 follows the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002 which was held in Sardinia, Italy, 9-12 June 2002), the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003 which was held [...]

World Academy of Science Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 26-29, 2006) SWWS’06 is an international conference held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP’06 (The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). WORLDCOMP’06 is the largest annual gathering [...]

XML.com No matter where you fall in debates over free software or DRM, there’s one type of information that is unarguably meant to be free, and that’s information about our government. The more knowledge citizens have about government the better. So how can we use XML and the Semantic Web to make it easier to [...]

ZDNet When you attend a trade show or a scientific congress, you want to make the best use of your time and meet as many people of interest as possible. But how do you do this? By reading a brochure and browsing through its index? By visiting a web site? Believe me, it’s often inefficient. [...]

NewsForge.com In the tradition of whimsical computing acronyms, OWL stands for Web Ontology Language (why? — try saying “WOL” out loud a few times). As you might expect, being a W3C standard, OWL has an XML syntax; and as a part the W3C Semantic Web technology domain, OWL allows ontologies to be shared, mixed, and [...]

Information Society Technologies Peer-to-peer systems have advantages over centralised server-reliant networks, but finding information among multiple distributed databases can prove difficult. European researchers solved the problem by adding Semantic Web technology to P2P networks. Their open source system, developed under the IST programme-funded SWAP project, advanced the state-of-the-art in the use of ontologies, controlled vocabularies [...]

USA Today You can’t easily point to a piece of software or the way a Web page is designed and say “This is part of Web 2.0.” The effect is cumulative. In fact, there isn’t even agreement on what the term “Web 2.0″ means. For some, it’s about a new generation of websites that use [...]