PharmaLive Teranode Corporation, the leading innovator of experiment design automation (XDA) software for the Life Sciences industry, today announced the company will participate in a panel discussion on semantic web at Bio-IT World’s Life Sciences Conference + Expo. The panel, titled, “The Semantic Web” will discuss how the Life Sciences is among the first industry [...]

Reverse Direct Marketing The DC.Coverage meta tag can be used to specify not only a point on the globe, but also more complex relationships like country, region, continent, time, etc. The Semantic Web implications are obvious. But in combination with other DC Standard Meta tags, the power of ‘normal’ search will increase exponentially. Interested consumers [...]

Pressetext Austria On Tuesday, March 21th, the European Tourism Destination Portal visiteurope.com was launched by European Commission’s Vice President Verheugen at the European Tourism Ministers’ Conference in Vienna. Highlights · Initially, the portal features a user interface in three languages : English, French and Portuguese. More languages (German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Russian) will [...]

Guardian Unlimited The inventor of the world wide web wants access to Ordnance Survey data – and the freedom to manipulate it as he sees fit The inventor of the world wide web has called for more open access to Ordnance Survey (OS) mapping data – and may get his wish later this year. Sir [...]

DM Review The increasing importance of electronic channels is also a key to the rise in unstructured enterprise content (EC). With increased governmental and regulatory scrutiny, there are mandates to keep records of Internet and email transactions. Demand for richer media such as audio files and HD video for training, marketing, etc. also creates EC. [...]

Business Wire WSDL 2.0 includes the hooks to allow the specification of semantic descriptions. W3C has chartered the Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group to develop an annotation mechanism that takes advantage of those hooks. “There are multiple communities around Semantic Web Services,” explains Jacek Kopecky, chair of the Semantic Annotations [...]

Java World Peek inside a Java book that presents 101 exciting and cool code bits, open source projects, and project ideas Chapter 3 is an exciting chapter to read, but Chapter 4′s discussion on crawling the Semantic Web is just awesome. The Semantic Web is a step up from the current Web in that the [...]

Reverse Direct Marketing Real local search for mobile users will not require a user-entered location from which to search, and true local search for mobile and wireline users should only return the nearest relevant results, as defined by the website or business itself, not by a third party. Turns out, a standardized framework for this [...]

BCS With the major www2006 conference just around the corner, BCS managing editor Brian Runciman interviews the inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Ian Horrocks spoke to the BCS on ontologies, the application of which would clearly see a true Semantic Web, but how can we apply these principles to the billions of existing [...]

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 [...]