WWW2006 15th International World Wide Web Conference Edinburgh, Scotland (23-26 May, 2006) The World Wide Web Conference is the global event to bring together the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, businesses and standards bodies shaping the future of the web. This year’s event will feature numerous workshops focused on Semantic Web technologies. Reasoning on the [...]

ZDNet The use of conventional information retrieval technology does not support the semantics of the application task. Neyir Sevilmis from the coordinating organisation, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, explains further: “We took a semantic Web-based approach because semantic Web technologies are quite promising and offer new possibilities in the field of knowledge management, retrieval [...]

TMCnet “We’re excited that PTC has chosen to include CambridgeDocs tools as part of their Arbortext dynamic publishing solution,” said Kedron Wolcott, vice president engineering at CambridgeDocs. “We engineered our XML conversion products to transform documents into fully formed schemas, and we believe that the agreement with PTC will expand the reach of this capability [...]

ZDNet Wikipedia is built by a passionate community of contributors around the world with a leader, Jimmy Wales, who is inspirational and empowers the others but doesn’t control the entity. He doesn’t hire or fire anyone and the community itself handles dispute resolution and outreach. It’s counter-intuitive, Mitch said, and kind of a big secret [...]

NewsForge.com In the tradition of whimsical computing acronyms, OWL stands for Web Ontology Language (why? — try saying “WOL” out loud a few times). As you might expect, being a W3C standard, OWL has an XML syntax; and as a part the W3C Semantic Web technology domain, OWL allows ontologies to be shared, mixed, and [...]

Information Society Technologies Peer-to-peer systems have advantages over centralised server-reliant networks, but finding information among multiple distributed databases can prove difficult. European researchers solved the problem by adding Semantic Web technology to P2P networks. Their open source system, developed under the IST programme-funded SWAP project, advanced the state-of-the-art in the use of ontologies, controlled vocabularies [...]

USA Today You can’t easily point to a piece of software or the way a Web page is designed and say “This is part of Web 2.0.” The effect is cumulative. In fact, there isn’t even agreement on what the term “Web 2.0″ means. For some, it’s about a new generation of websites that use [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]