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 [...]

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 [...]

W3C The Web was designed as an information space, with the goal that it should be useful not only for human-human communication, but also that machines would be able to participate and help. One of the major obstacles to this has been the fact that most information on the Web is designed for human consumption, [...]

Computer World The Semantic Web is a visionary project that aims to enhance the usability and usefulness of the Web by enabling computers to find, read, understand and use the content of Web documents to accomplish tasks via automated agents and Web-based services. Tim Berners-Lee – the Oxford University graduate who invented the Web in [...]

Medical News Today The final day of the conference is entitled ‘The Impact of the Web on Health’ and scrutinizes the way the net has revolutionised the relationship between health professionals and the general public. Delegates will hear speeches on patient confidentiality, the impact of the Semantic Web on healthcare and the use and management [...]

TMCnet The Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2006), promises to confirm the rapid growth in adoption of semantic technologies when over a dozen customer case studies are presented during the conference on March 6-9, 2006, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. Semantics is quickly emerging as THE hot industry sector, and for good reason. [...]

TCMnet W3C invites the public to a Web Services Seminar entitled “Using Web services: from infrastructure to semantics” on 6 March 2006 at the Palais Brongniart in Paris, France. Focusing on semantic enhancements to Web services applications, this free event provides concrete examples of business challenges and how they have been resolved through the use [...]

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, [...]

Intelligent Enterprise What is the Semantic Web and how can it help you? The concept may help solve tough corporate information-management problems. The technology behind semantics includes linguistic programming, artificial intelligence, content management and a few new areas as well. The motivation behind it can be attributed to Tim Berners-Lee and a group of Web [...]