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Topics in education are changing with an ever faster pace. ELearning resources tend to be more and more decentralized. Users increasingly need to be able to use the resources of the web. For this, they should have tools for finding and organizing information in a decentralized way. In this paper, we show how an ontologybased tool suite allows to make the most of the resources available on the web.

Recent progress in mobile broadband communication and semantic web technology is enabling innovative internet services that provide advanced personalization and localization features. The goal of the SmartWeb project (duration: 2004-2007) is to lay the foundations for multimodal user interfaces to distributed and composable semantic Web services on mobile devices. The SmartWeb consortium brings together experts from various research communities: mobile services, intelligent user interfaces, language and speech technology, information extraction, and semantic Web technologies (see www.smartweb-project.org).

Research Topic: The Semantic Web - Reference Pages for Higher Education The semantic web is a complex and exciting technology that will change how we work in the information age, and how we interact with the Internet. To support research activity within the field of Education, this site provides dynamic links to resources around the world. Gathered here, you will find: * a vision for educational application of learning made possible with semantic web technologies, * a general reference resource for terms and definitions, * technical resources within the field of the semantic web and semantic networking, * case studies of the semantic web applied in different fields and in education, and * publications and conferences focusing on the semantic web.

Project10X has just published a new study that charts the next stage of internet evolution - Web 3.0 - and the role semantic technologies in next generation applications and business models. Entitled Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities, this study is must reading for investors, technology developers, and enterprises in the public and private sector who want to better understand semantic technologies, the business opportunities they present, and the ways Web 3.0 will change how we use and experience the internet for pleasure and profit. The report is 400+ pages, comprehensive, well illustrated, and written to be readily understood by business and government executives as well as IT professionals. We invite you to download a free 27-page summary of this report at the following link: Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Executive Summary

Synonyms computational ontology, semantic data model, ontological engineering Definition In the context of computer and information sciences, an ontology defines a set of representational primitives with which to model a domain of knowledge or discourse. The representational primitives are typically classes (or sets), attributes (or properties), and relationships (or relations among class members). The definitions of the representational primitives include information about their meaning and constraints on their logically consistent application.

Publications Managing Ontology Lifecycles in Corporate Settings Markus Luczak-Rösch and Ralf Heese: Managing Ontology Lifecycles in Corporate Settings, International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS), Graz, Austria, September 03-05, 2008 Interoperability Issues, Ontology Matching and MOMA Malgorzata Mochol: Interoperability Issues, Ontology Matching and MOMA, International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS), Graz, Austria, September 03-05, 2008 Towards a rule-based matcher selection Malgorzata Mochol, Anja Jentzsch: Towards a rule-based matcher selection, 6th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Knowledge Patterns (EKAW2008), Acitrezza, Catania, Italy, September 29 - October 03, 2008 Simple Back-end Services for Corporate Semantic Web Robert Tolksdorf, Radoslaw Oldakowski, Thomas Hoppe: Simple Back-end Services for Corporate Semantic Web, 3rd International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST 2008) at INFORMATIK 2008, Munich, Germany, September 2008. (Abstract) A Generic Corporate Ontology Lifecycle Markus Luczak-Rösch and Ralf Heese: A Generic Corporate Ontology Lifecycle, 3rd Workshop on Semantic Wikis, European Semantic Web Conference, June 2008 (Abstract, Poster)

Bo, you mainly deal with the application of semantic technologies in medicine and life sciences. What is your motivation to do this? What fascinates you about this field of research? Looking back from this point in time, I cannot help to ask myself: while information and communication technologies (ICT) have achieved incredible advances in the last decade or so and have been successfully applied in numerous fields to improve the quality of our everyday life, why do we still find old fashioned services dominant in public health care? Have we, as computer scientists or IT professionals, done enough in the so-called semantic web (SW) era to make patients suffer less and to make medical doctors' lives easier?

TopQuadrant assists customers in planning, designing and deploying semantic solutions that enable systems and people to quickly fuse relevant information from diverse sources, put knowledge into context, collaborate effectively, and make better decisions. We provide structured solution packages that combine: * Open architecture platform built specifically to implement W3C semantic web standards * Integration with the best of breed third party components * Training and mentoring on the applications of Semantic Web technology * Proven methodology fine tuned to the implementation needs of the semantic solutions * Planning, modeling and implementation services

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais. Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

The International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. The Semantic Web Science Association Web, SWSA, is the Association that organizes the academic conferences on Semantic Web technology. If you would like to host the ISWC conference please submit an application to the president of the SWSA.

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"Special issue on the Semantic Web Issue Editor's Introduction ball The Semantic Web: opportunities and challenges for next-generation Web applications, by Shiyong Lu, Ming Dong and Farshad Fotouhi, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA ball Forms of labour in information systems, by Julian Warner, School of Management and Economics, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK ball The Semantic Web, universalist ambition and some lessons from librarianship, by Terrence A. Brooks, Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA ball The necessity for information space mapping for information retrieval on the semantic web, by Gregory B. Newby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA"

Semantic technologies improve the way we work with information, in ways that current IT architectures and methodologies cannot. Semantic Power creates value by linking knowledge. Aduna applies semantic technology to the following areas: * Search & Discovery * eCommerce * Targeted Advertising Read more...

At the ACM Hypertext Conference a panel discussed "The Next Big Thing Inc." in the area of hypertext and hypermedia. The Web has been the "Big Thing" during the past 10 years, but its success has also made it very difficult to find the appropriate information in an ocean of over 3 billion pages. Whereas search engines achieve incredible precision, they suffer from the same "one size fits all" approach that characterizes the Web sites they index. The paper defends the position that personalization, and in particular automatic personalization or adaptation, is the key to reach the goal of offering each individual user (or user group) the information they need. During the panel discussion there was debate about whether the user should always have access and control over the entire (hypertextual) information space. There were different views on whether the "right" to all the information is best guaranteed by offering tools that reduce the information space the user perceives so that the user can actually find and reach the information, or by offering unfiltered access to an ocean of information in which everything is available but in which perhaps nothing can be found. We argue in favor of adaptation but at the same time point out flaws in the way adaptive hypermedia has been used until now. The paper then proposes a new, modular adaptive hypermedia architecture that should lead to adaptive Web-based systems as the "Next Big Thing" indeed.

Vic's compendium of software that supports knowledge management and information organisation in graphical form. Includes mind mappers, concept mappers, outliners, hierarchical organisers, KM support and knowledge browsers, 2D and 3D. The opinions are Vic's but material in quotes that follows "What they say" is quoted from the vendors' web sites. Product names used in this web site are for identification purposes only and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Please let me know of any software that isn't here but should be: Vic at the above domain.

eLearning is fast, relevant and just-in-time learning grown from the learningrequirements of the new, dynamically changing, distributed business world. The term „Semantic Web" encompasses efforts to build a new WWW architecture that supports content with formal semantics, which enables better possibilities for searching and navigating through the cyberspace. As such, the Semantic Web represents a promising technology for realizing eLearning requirements. This paper presents an approach for implementing the eLearning scenario using Semantic Web technologies. It is primarily based on ontology-based descriptions of content, context and structure of the learning materials and benefits the providing of and accessing to the learning materials.

PUBLICATIONS (1999 - 2007) Journal articles, Refereed conferences articles, Monographs, Editorships, Book chapters, Refereed workshop contributions

Designing the Semantic Web for Higher Education Technological and Socio-economical Challenges 2002 What is the Semantic Web all about? How do Use Cases of the Semantic Web look like and how can we realize them? What is missing from the socio-economicalpoint of view?

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Our flagship product, Thetus Publisher, provides a comprehensive framework for semantic knowledge modeling, searching, sharing and tracking knowledge across the enterprise. Thetus semantic solutions empower data-rich organizations in a broad range of industries to leverage the full potential of the knowledge that drives complex analysis and informed decision-making.