WebProNews.com One of the more recent developments in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and semantic web design has several benefits: clarity in code, browser and other web-enabled devices compatibility, seperation of content and presentation, smaller burden on bandwith, and better visibility to search engines. Back in the day, we [...]

Information Society Technologies A major step towards establishing Semantic Web services as the new e-work and e-commerce infrastructure has been made by a group of European researchers following the submission of a new framework to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C). In June 2005 the DIP project announced the submission of the Web Services Modelling [...]

XML.com SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), recently introduced by the W3C, is a model for expressing knowledge organization systems in a machine-understandable way, within the framework of the Semantic Web. The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an RDF (Resource Description Framework) application. Using RDF allows data to be linked and merged with other RDF data by [...]

Sydney Morning Herald Grand challenges aren’t solved overnight, even by the brightest brains. Some, such as the web, need a first, rough draft before they reach their potential. The “semantic web” is like the web on steroids, version 2.0 of the killer application that sent the internet mainstream and resulted in the greatest flow of [...]

SOA Web Services Journal As the Semantic Web gains momentum, it’s important for Web service developers to keep abreast of its technologies and prepare for a change in their industry This article looks at how the Semantic Web applies to Web services, including what specifications are under development and how you might prepare for integration [...]

XML.com Taxonomies have long played a central role in both medical and library science for the classification of medical terms and books. Recently, the U.S. federal government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Data Reference Model (DRM). The FEA DRM specifies three abstract layers of an organization’s information: business [...]

Information Society Technologies A quiet revolution is coming our way. Recent successful trials of European semantic-Web applications suggest that machine-readable data will soon usher in an improved Web that will facilitate information reuse, and provide for painless building and maintenance of community portals. “Computers struggle to attach meaning to information written in common Web languages [...]