infomesh.net
This document is designed as being a simple but comprehensive introductory publication for anybody trying to get into the Semantic Web: from beginners through to long time hackers.
The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think [...]

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 Web (RoW06)
This workshop aims [...]

ZDNet
When you attend a trade show or a scientific congress, you want to make the best use of your time and meet as many people of interest as possible. But how do you do this? By reading a brochure and browsing through its index? By visiting a web site? Believe me, it’s often inefficient. This [...]

ZDNet India
Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and many other universities are working to solve problems presented by the library of tomorrow, which will be largely digitized. Sifting through and organizing billions of digital documents will require new search technology.
MIT, for example, has teamed with the World Wide Web Consortium to create next-generation search technology [...]

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, said he [...]

Information Society Technologies
The system uses advanced technologies, like metadata and ontologies, for information management. Metadata is ‘information about information’, a means of archiving Web languages, while ontologies are the formal specifications of a system. Combining the two allows a computer to match up course materials with a topic.
Diogene also deployed ‘fuzzy’ learner modelling, which like [...]

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
The Web has developed considerably over the last ten years from a mechanism for distributing simple text and images and is now used to deliver complex interactive applications. Within HE it is widely used in a diverse range of information service areas including e-learning, portal development, Virtual Research Environments and [...]