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 [...]

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 for WSDL [...]

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 Semantic Web [...]

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 has existed [...]

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 Web pages?
Don’t. [...]

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 [...]

ZD Net
After being the sole preserve of a team of slightly wild-eyed geeks at W3C — plus Jon Udell, who is just one of those guys who gets things two years before everyone else — suddenly structured web data is something that ordinary people see the point of doing. Mainly because of edgeio, which in [...]

Guardian Unlimited
The Open University is switching its VLE from Blackboard and Web CT to the open access system Moodle. “We are moving to Moodle because it is an open-source, open-tools, collaborative environment,” says the OU’s Peter Scott. “The market for VLEs is being driven by universities and by students and their requirements.”
He anticipates that cutting-edge [...]

Genetic Engineering News
Cerebra, Inc. a leading provider of semantic-based content integration solutions, today announced graduation of the first class from Cerebra University, the industry’s premier forum for semantic technology education. Jeff Pollock’s session, “Enterprise Semantic Web for 2006″ at this week’s Semantic Technology Conference 2006, is an introduction to the commercial application of semantic technology [...]

Government Computer News
Ex-Homeland Security Department metadata chief Michael Daconta may have trumpeted the Resource Description Framework in his 2003 book The Semantic Web, but for most shops, the benefits of RDF have remained academic.
The good news is that RDF now has a powerful sponsor to help spur adoption. Oracle Corp. of Redwood Shores, Calif., has [...]