Integration Developer News A visionary group of IT and health care professionals are crafting a new approach to interop and integration of medical data between providers. The project could even improve patient access to their own medical data. IDN looks at health care IT’s latest champions, who say the semantic web will provide better cross-platform [...]

ZD Net After being the sole preserve of a team of slightly wild-eyed geeks at W3C — plus Jon Udell, who is just one of those guys who gets things two years before everyone else — suddenly structured web data is something that ordinary people see the point of doing. Mainly because of edgeio, which [...]

Guardian Unlimited The Open University is switching its VLE from Blackboard and Web CT to the open access system Moodle. “We are moving to Moodle because it is an open-source, open-tools, collaborative environment,” says the OU’s Peter Scott. “The market for VLEs is being driven by universities and by students and their requirements.” He anticipates [...]

Genetic Engineering News Cerebra, Inc. a leading provider of semantic-based content integration solutions, today announced graduation of the first class from Cerebra University, the industry’s premier forum for semantic technology education. Jeff Pollock’s session, “Enterprise Semantic Web for 2006″ at this week’s Semantic Technology Conference 2006, is an introduction to the commercial application of semantic [...]

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, [...]

Web Wire In the future, drivers will be able to conveniently retrieve information from the Internet using “natural language.” This has been made possible by a new technology that automatically generates voice applications from Internet information and transmits it to the vehicle via radio signals. It’s just not your day. You drive by several low-priced [...]

Semantical.org semantical.org is designed to promote and advance the state of the art in the establishment of the commercial Semantic Web. Any efforts here conform to, and are guided by, standards adopted within the W3C Semantic Web standards initiative. Much greater volumes of transactions in digital goods and services on the wired and un-wired web [...]

DM Review By now, I am sure you have seen the commercials about “What can Brown do for you?” UPS, FedEx and the other carriers are not asking you to choose them because they have the lowest cost, fastest delivery or the most physical locations. No, that was yesterday’s competitive advantage. UPS is asking to [...]

PRLEAP.com Access-eGov (Access to e-Government Services Employing Semantic Technologies) is an IST project partially funded under the IST Programme of FP6 (eGovernment research). A consortium consisting of eleven partners from five countries (Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Egypt) led by the Technical University of Kosice will carry out the project between January 2006 and December [...]

NEPOMUK A European Union-backed project called NEPOMUK aims at empowering individual knowledge workers to better exploit their personal information space and to maintain fruitful communication and exchange within social networks across organizational boundaries. NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a com- prehensive solution for extending the personal desktop [...]