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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]