ZDNet The use of conventional information retrieval technology does not support the semantics of the application task. Neyir Sevilmis from the coordinating organisation, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, explains further: “We took a semantic Web-based approach because semantic Web technologies are quite promising and offer new possibilities in the field of knowledge management, retrieval [...]

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. [...]

NewsForge.com In the tradition of whimsical computing acronyms, OWL stands for Web Ontology Language (why? — try saying “WOL” out loud a few times). As you might expect, being a W3C standard, OWL has an XML syntax; and as a part the W3C Semantic Web technology domain, OWL allows ontologies to be shared, mixed, and [...]

Java World The Semantic Web is the next-generation web of concepts linked to other concepts, rather than a collection of hypertext documents linked by keywords. If you think about it, an HTML anchor tag (link) is a keyword reference to another document. It supplies a word or phrase that links to another document, usually displayed [...]

XML.com This tutorial, the first of a three-part series, introduces SPARQL — a query language and data access protocol for the Semantic Web. SPARQL is defined in terms of the W3C’s RDF data model and will work for any data source that can be mapped into RDF. The specification is under development by the RDF [...]

InternetNews.com There’s a new Semantic Web group in town. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has formed the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group with the job of standardizing the rules that propel data across the Web, regardless of format. Rules are a cornerstone of the Semantic Web, the idea that the Internet can be [...]

O’Reilly XML.com I really want the Semantic Web (SW) explosion to happen, and sooner rather than later. But a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach tells me that it’s still a long way off. And worse still, that the Web 2.0 momentum could push it further back. Let me explain. Without getting into [...]

ADTmag.com Altova this week introduced a Semantic Web development tool that enables developers to graphically create and edit in Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language. The Semantic Web is a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise and community boundaries, according to the World Wide Web Consortium. The [...]

Intelligent Enterprise For enterprise content integration (ECI), potential solutions include choices that go beyond mere connectivity to support sophisticated indexing, search and virtual repositories. XML, JSR 170 and other standards figure prominently. ECI implementation is still at the early adopter stage; vendors are jockeying for future dominance as organizations place increasing priority on cross-functional business [...]

ZDNet Kendall Clark from XML.com posted an interesting article called Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web. In it he talks about a new technology called SPARQL, which is an RDF query language and protocol. It’s apparently an SQL for the Semantic Web. Kendall’s post proposes that Web 2.0 be “wrapped, morphed, or bridged on to [...]