'The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is an open consortium of universities, libraries, corporations and government research laboratories. LDC was formed in 1992 to address the critical data shortage then facing language technology research and development.'
The Second International Conference on Digital Enterprise and Information Systems will be held at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, From July 16-18, 2012 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications.
"The Semantic Web, Web 3.0, the Linked Data Web, the Web of Data…whatever you call it, the Semantic Web represents the next major evolution in connecting information. It enables data to be linked from a source to any other source and to be understood by computers so that they can perform increasingly sophisticated tasks on our behalf."