Heise Online
German scientists are working on a project they call Wikinger (German for “Viking”) based on the concept of Wikipedia to provide virtual knowledge networking in addition to the classic exchange of knowledge at Congresses. The goal of the project is to create a domain-neutral platform for scientists to allow them to perform research in [...]

Bio-IT World.com
Sharing their passion for the Semantic Web at the Bio-IT World Life Sciences Conference + Expo session on Tuesday were several prominent leaders of the movement.
Providing a clinical perspective was Tonya Hongsermeier of Partners Healthcare, who said the Semantic Web is necessary for knowledge management because “the market is balking at healthcare inflation.” She [...]

FCW.com
An open-standards group has created a framework that could facilitate the global exchange of information among organizations. The naming system could benefit a wide range of disciplines, from disaster response to medical research.
The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) has the potential to hasten information exchange by indexing the world’s datasets — from e-commerce [...]

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 to [...]

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 Tim Berners-Lee [...]

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.
Thus, I [...]

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 data access [...]

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, and [...]

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 1989, wrote [...]

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. According to [...]