SemanticWeb Research

The "Social Semantic Web" is here - yay! The book of the same name, edited by Andreas Blumauer (right) and Tassilo Pellegrini, is now available in stores. Another contributor from SWC is Matthias Samwald (left), who, together with Holger Stenzhorn, discussed the relevance of the Semantic Web for biomedial research in their article for the book.

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?

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)

Topic: Semantic Web Recent Posts in this Topic 5Cs Dave Snowden revises and reprises his conditions of complexity. Including this one: "Constraint is key to understanding complexity, it governs the transition between the three ontologies. Increase constraint and you create an ordered system; do that inappropriately and you create the conditions for catastrophic failure; remove constraint and the system is chaotic. Lightly constrain the system, while allowing it to be modified by the actors within it and you enable evolution and the emergence of meaning. Managing constrains is one of the things you can train managers to do, and measure their capability and effectiveness." Do I agree with that? I don't know. How do you constrain them. Who does the constraining? With networks there can be natural limits, which prevents them from being scale free. But I don't think this is what Snowden means. Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge, October 23, 2008 [Link] [Tags: Ontologies, Networks, Semantic Web] [Comment]

Semantic Web Company Newsletter 15 October, 2008 EDITORIAL Towards a Semantic Web Industry VOICES Danny Ayers: "The Semantic Web is the path of least resistance" SWC UPDATE New book available: "Social Semantic Web" First KiWi project milestones achieved SWC sponsors Web of Data Practitioners Days

Collection of technical articles.

The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. The following is an archive of some of the publications or interviews that were published by the W3C Staff.

Overview - company offerings

Thetus Publisher Thetus semantic knowledge modeling solutions provide a unique ability to view systems holistically and transcend a data-bound view of problems. At their core, semantic knowledge models are comprised of beliefs and facts expressed through human-readable concepts and relationships. Our flagship product, the Thetus Publisher™, provides a groundbreaking foundation for leveraging semantic technologies to create, manage and evolve semantic knowledge models. The Publisher platform is used in a broad set of integrated solutions ranging from systems for resource modeling to applications for intelligence and national defense.

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.

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?

Calais enhances your content with rich semantic metadata. Using your content as a starting point, you can utilize Calais to automatically add metadata such as entities (people, places, organizations, etc.), facts (John Doe work for Acme Corporation as the CEO), and events (a natural disaster of type landslide happened on date x). That metadata is generated in industry-standard formats that ease integration with whatever commercial, open source or proprietary content management system you are using. Metadata in and of itself is not too interesting. Where things get more interesting is what you can do with it.

Zepheira provides end to end solutions to integrate, navigate and manage information across personal, group and enterprise boundaries. From education to implementation we apply semantic technology to address data integration challenges, organize patterns and relationships inherent in your data, clear up complexity, and increase collaboration among your employees, partners and customers.

In this paper it is presented our contribution for carrying out adaptive and intelligent Web-based Education Systems (WBES) that take into account the individual student learning requirements, by means of a holistic architecture and Framework for developing WBES. In addition, three basic modules of the proposed WBES are outlined: an Authoring tool, a Semantic Web-based Evaluation, and a Cognitive Maps-based Student Model. As well, it is stated a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) oriented to deploy reusable, accessible, durable and interoperable services. The approach enhances the Learning Technology Standard Architecture, proposed by IEEE-LTSA (Learning Technology System Architecture) [IEEE 1484.1/D9 LTSA (2001). Draft standard for learning technology - learning technology systems architecture (LTSA). New York, USA. URL: http://ieee.ltsc.org/wg1], and the Sharable Content Object Reusable Model (SCORM), claimed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) [Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (2004). URL: http://www.adlnet.org].

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

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What are the big players doing in semantic search? And which of the startups are challenging them? How does semantic technology change search results? What are the key advantages and new opportunities that semantics provides in both the consumer and business search markets?

References to papers on the topic of the semantic web and education (Brazil).

Motivation Educational Systems are gradually incorporating Semantic Web technology. The general purpose is to make the Web more understandable by machines and then generate educational systems that are more adaptable and intelligent.