Web Wire In the future, drivers will be able to conveniently retrieve information from the Internet using “natural language.” This has been made possible by a new technology that automatically generates voice applications from Internet information and transmits it to the vehicle via radio signals. It’s just not your day. You drive by several low-priced [...]

Semantical.org semantical.org is designed to promote and advance the state of the art in the establishment of the commercial Semantic Web. Any efforts here conform to, and are guided by, standards adopted within the W3C Semantic Web standards initiative. Much greater volumes of transactions in digital goods and services on the wired and un-wired web [...]

PRLEAP.com Access-eGov (Access to e-Government Services Employing Semantic Technologies) is an IST project partially funded under the IST Programme of FP6 (eGovernment research). A consortium consisting of eleven partners from five countries (Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Egypt) led by the Technical University of Kosice will carry out the project between January 2006 and December [...]

NEPOMUK A European Union-backed project called NEPOMUK aims at empowering individual knowledge workers to better exploit their personal information space and to maintain fruitful communication and exchange within social networks across organizational boundaries. NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a com- prehensive solution for extending the personal desktop [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Medical News Today The final day of the conference is entitled ‘The Impact of the Web on Health’ and scrutinizes the way the net has revolutionised the relationship between health professionals and the general public. Delegates will hear speeches on patient confidentiality, the impact of the Semantic Web on healthcare and the use and management [...]

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 [...]

TCMnet W3C invites the public to a Web Services Seminar entitled “Using Web services: from infrastructure to semantics” on 6 March 2006 at the Palais Brongniart in Paris, France. Focusing on semantic enhancements to Web services applications, this free event provides concrete examples of business challenges and how they have been resolved through the use [...]

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 [...]