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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Information Society Technologies The open source OBELIX project, carried out under the European Commission’s IST Programme, goes a step beyond more traditional semantic-based approaches, using ontologies to capture richer profiles of products and services, even intangible ones, and interlink the relationships between them. The project’s interdisciplinary approach draws not only from computer science and artificial [...]

CNN.com Handheld devices and mobile phones will offer easier access to the Web; this is the goal of [the World Wide Web Consortium's] recently launched Mobile Web Initiative. [The consortium's] Web Services will enable organizations to communicate data more efficiently and securely to their customers and suppliers. The Semantic Web will enable computers to do [...]

DMReview The software industry as a whole seems to be migrating toward semantics like a flock of birds heading South for the winter. Slowly, I am beginning to see the term “semantics” being used in various disciplines, such as the Semantic Web, SOA, business intelligence, information integration and business process management. In all these contexts, [...]

ZDNet Regarding search, Raghavan said, “We have two views of better search. Most people are not interested in search—they want to get things done. The future has to be more friendly to people getting tasks done. You don’t want to spend two weeks of evenings sitting at a keyboard and piecing together a vacation plan. [...]

eWeek.com Graham Glass, founder of successful software companies, supporter of Web services and service-oriented architectures, and former chief technology officer at webMethods Inc., has announced his resignation from the business integration software vendor. Glass, who joined Fairfax, Va.-based webMethods when the company acquired Glass’ previous venture, The Mind Electric Inc. (TME), in October of 2003, [...]