Google Blogoscoped Other than Froogle, Google Base reminds me of another initiative: the Semantic Web, evangelized by the creator of the web, Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C. In this initiative, site owners will share meta-information on their available data using RDF files on their own servers. As opposed to Google Base, it would be decentralized, [...]

XML.com This tutorial, the first of a three-part series, introduces SPARQL — a query language and data access protocol for the Semantic Web. SPARQL is defined in terms of the W3C’s RDF data model and will work for any data source that can be mapped into RDF. The specification is under development by the RDF [...]

Genetic Engineering News The major conference tracks are: IT/Informatics Solutions for Drug Discovery: This track will feature several multi-speaker sessions exploring the critical ways that organizations are deploying information technology and informatics solutions to further drug discovery. Topics to be covered include: The Semantic Web; Systems Biology and Simulation; Discovery Informatics; IT Infrastructure; Computational Drug [...]

InternetNews.com There’s a new Semantic Web group in town. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has formed the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group with the job of standardizing the rules that propel data across the Web, regardless of format. Rules are a cornerstone of the Semantic Web, the idea that the Internet can be [...]

Bio-IT World.com In the fall of 2004, believing that the data interoperability challenge facing the life sciences was the poster child for this new technology, the W3C hosted a workshop on Semantic Web for the life sciences. Evidently the two groups were working on some similar problems. “I asked myself, was the mission of the [...]

O’Reilly XML.com I really want the Semantic Web (SW) explosion to happen, and sooner rather than later. But a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach tells me that it’s still a long way off. And worse still, that the Web 2.0 momentum could push it further back. Let me explain. Without getting into [...]

Red Herring By hosting everything from articles on current events, to used car listings, to scientific data, Google could be taking a step toward building the “Semantic Web” pushed by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and other computer scientists. The Semantic Web moves toward one that uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to describe the [...]

ADTmag.com Altova this week introduced a Semantic Web development tool that enables developers to graphically create and edit in Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language. The Semantic Web is a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise and community boundaries, according to the World Wide Web Consortium. The [...]

Intelligent Enterprise For enterprise content integration (ECI), potential solutions include choices that go beyond mere connectivity to support sophisticated indexing, search and virtual repositories. XML, JSR 170 and other standards figure prominently. ECI implementation is still at the early adopter stage; vendors are jockeying for future dominance as organizations place increasing priority on cross-functional business [...]

ZDNet Kendall Clark from XML.com posted an interesting article called Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web. In it he talks about a new technology called SPARQL, which is an RDF query language and protocol. It’s apparently an SQL for the Semantic Web. Kendall’s post proposes that Web 2.0 be “wrapped, morphed, or bridged on to [...]