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"The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.[1][2]"

What is LOCO-Analyst? LOCO-Analyst is an educational tool aimed at providing teachers with feedback on the relevant aspects of the learning process taking place in a web-based learning environment, and thus helps them improve the content and the structure of their web-based courses. LOCO-Analyst aims at providing teachers with feedback regarding: *  all kinds of activities their students performed and/or took part in during the learning process, *  the usage and the comprehensibility of the learning content they had prepared and deployed in the LCMS, *  contextualized social interactions among students (i.e., social networking) in the virtual learning environment. This Web site provides some basic information about LOCO-Analyst, its functionalities and implementation. In addition, you can watch videos illustrating the tool's functionalities. You can also learn about the LOCO (Learning Object Context Ontologies) ontological framework that lies beneath the LOCO-Analyst tool and download the ontologies of this framework.

"The mantra of the information age has been "The more information the better!" But what happens when we search the web and get so much information that we can't sort through it, let alone evaluate it? Enter the semantic web, or Web 3.0. Among other things, the semantic web makes information more meaningful to people by making it more understandable to machines."

"Earlier this month, I wrote about the Higher Education sector's interest in the opportunities presented by use of semantic technologies. Today I published a podcast with Thanassis Tiropanis, project manager for the recently finished SemTech report and co-organiser of a workshop on Semantic Web applications for learning and teaching which takes place in Nice on 30 September."

"Events [Cal. 2009] Finance - Breaking the conspiracy for ignorance (Amsterdam, 5 October 2009), Semantic training of TopQuadrant (Amsterdam, 5 October 2009), OWLED 2009 (Chantilly, VA, 23 October 2009), Rr2009 (Virginia, 25 October 2009), ISWC2009 (Chantilly, VA, 25 October 2009, subevents: SDoW2009, SMR2-2009) view all events …"

"A place for anything related to K-12 and higher education applications of the semantic web."

"SemHE 2009: Semantic web applications for learning and teaching support in higher education"

"Semantic Web: Web 3.0 in Education"

"The Disco - Hyperdata Browser is a simple browser for navigating the Semantic Web. The browser renders all information, that it can find on the Semantic Web about a specific resource, as an HTML page. This resource description contains hyperlinks that allow you to navigate between resources. While you move from resource to resource, the browser dynamically retrieves information by dereferencing HTTP URIs and by following rdfs:seeAlso links."

"DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data."

"Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) talked with Brian Donnelly about a new system on the market called "Semantic Discovery System" (SDS), which helps to do sophisticated queries across existing datasets. Also talking why complex scripts or triple stores should not be exposed to the end-users anymore."

"During the early days of the Internet in the mid and late 90's software professionals and Internet users waited in angst for computers to become as smart as people by using artificial intelligence (computers using human reason combined with processing power thousands of times faster than human brain's processing power). This never panned out [...]"

"Intro to the Semantic Web, LITA Social Software Showcase 2009"

"Semantic Web Landscape 2009"

"Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium"

Collection of publications on the activities involving the semantic web. This is a very useful resource.

"The Semantic Web & Social Software"

"International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD2009) September 8-11, 2009 - University of Trento, Trento (ITALY) Digital libraries, in the central view of the term, focus on storing and organizing digital objects and providing access to these objects through professional or user-generated metadata or content-based search (full text, image content, full musical score). In an expanded view, DLs also support annotation, generation or editing of digital objects and provide tools for processing digital objects. The semantic Web focuses on the formal representation of data for more precise retrieval and, more importantly, for reasoning so that many often disparate items of data can be combined to directly answer a user's question or to devise a plan of action. ICDLSW addresses two main questions: (1) How can digital libraries support Semantic Web functionality? (2) How can Semantic Web technology improve digital libraries? "

"2009-09-01 [09:30 - 11:00] : Session 3A: Web, Semantics and Ontologies I" 2009-09-01 [14:00 - 15:30] : Session 4A: Web, Semantics and Ontologies II 2009-09-01 [16:00 - 17:30] : Session 5A: Web, Semantics and Ontologies III 2009-09-02 [09:30 - 11:00] : Session 6B: Semantic Web and Ontologies IV (short papers)