Archive for February, 2006

Hip Hop Offers Lessons on Life Science Data Integration

February 11th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Business, News, Science & Space

Bio-IT World.com
Some sites are addressing this problem (and not just for the sake of mashups) by enhancing the way data is accessed. For example, many sites are moving from traditional command line interfaces and onscreen queries to exposing a site’s data to applications via a Web services interface.
Another approach that would greatly expand the amount [...]

Health Care IT Project Eyes Semantic Web

February 11th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Health, News

Integration Developer News
Inside Artemis – Health Care IT’s Semantic Web Believers
Artemis is comprised of computer system developers, practicing rural physicians, community care groups, health care researchers, and tertiary care facilities that is committed to provide a solution.
The goal: To create a field-validated, open collaboration environment for the health care domain and to demonstrate its effectiveness [...]

Semantic Web Travel Services on a Voyage of Discovery

February 11th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Business, News

Information Society Technologies
The industry is making moves to improve the situation, and has formed a consortium called the Open Travel Alliance (OTA). The OTA is producing XML message specification schemas to be exchanged between the trading partners, including availability checking, booking, rental, reservation, query services, insurance. This will improve matters, but not every travel company’s [...]

The Future of Online Search

February 10th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Business, News

CNN.com International
If anyone can guess what is in store for Web searching, it is Wired magazine co-founder John Batelle, who has spent most of his career as a technology journalist trying to find the answer.
CNN: What is the next big thing on the Web?
JB: The idea to create a semantic Web where everything is described [...]

Semantic Web, Here We Come

February 10th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Business, News

Red Herring
A consortium of blogging startups wants to give deeper meaning to the Internet by giving people tools to categorize web pages.
A consortium of young companies declared their support this week for building categories into web sites that would make them more easily searched and combined.
The “Structured Blogging Initiative” is an attempt to jump-start the [...]

Jump-Starting Semantic Web Efforts

February 10th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Health, News, Science & Space

Bio-IT World.com
Semantic Web technology has the potential to greatly improve the way researchers find, access, share, and use data. But like any new technology, there is a learning curve that must be overcome before the technology is widely adopted.
An online poll of Bio-IT World readers found that many life scientists do not know much about [...]

British Computer Society Announces Speaker Line-Up for World Wide Web Conference 2006

February 8th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Events, News

eGov Monitor
The conference programme will feature papers on world-leading technical innovations in many areas including, Mobile Web, Semantic Web and the challenges of security and privacy. Invited speakers will explore the implications and applications of web technology for government, society and business through a series of individual presentations, panel discussions and questions from the floor.
“The [...]

New Brain Trust to Work Like the Web

February 6th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Health, News, Science & Space

Extreme Nano
“All the Web can do is find a document for you and display it for you,” said Wilbanks. “The semantic web marks things up in a more concrete manner; it says that there are relationships.” For example, a scientist could search for peer-reviewed articles about a particular gene, data related to that gene, or [...]

Wicked Cool Java: Crawling the Semantic Web

February 6th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in News, Technology

Java World
The Semantic Web is the next-generation web of concepts linked to other concepts, rather than a collection of hypertext documents linked by keywords. If you think about it, an HTML anchor tag (link) is a keyword reference to another document. It supplies a word or phrase that links to another document, usually displayed as [...]

W3C Forms Life Science Semantic Web Group

February 6th, 2006  |  by Bryan  |  published in Health, News, Science & Space

Bio-IT World.com
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the formation of a new group that seeks to bring life scientists and Semantic Web experts together to help improve the way data is accessed, shared, and analyzed.
Specifically, the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) aims to help life scientists tap the [...]