January 2009 Digest

• The Semantic Web Gang discusses Calais 4.0, Linked Data, and Google
  
• Neon European Project. The aim of the NeOn Project is to develop tools for facilitating the design and development of large-scale semantically-aware applications that draw on heterogeneous data and knowledge sources.
  

  Neon Tooltkit : an extensible open-source Ontology Engineering Environment (Java, Eclipse-Based). Starting point of the toolkit is OntoStudio of OntoPrise.
  

  
  
• Non-W3C proposal RDF-EASE: a suggestion to specify RDFa bindings in css-like stylesheets.
  
• TopQuadrant releases TopBraid Composer 3.0 beta.
  

  Interesting video on (SPARQL-based) inferencing and constraint checking in TopBraid Composer.
  

  
  

December 2008 Digest

• Zemanta releases LOD-connected NLP API
  Links of Interest:
  
  • Linking Open Data (LOD)
    
  • Zemanta NLP API - Alternative to Reuters OpenCalais?
    
  
  
• Semantic CrunchBase - a SPARQL-Endpoint to CrunchBase (directory of technology companies, people, and investors).
  
• Talis Podcast: Mark Greaves about Vulcan and semantic web opportunities. Vulcan is, amongst other things, an investor into semweb companies and solutions.
  
• ReadWriteWeb: 10 new semantic web products to watch - 2009.
  
• World Wide Web Consortium publishes eleven documents about OWL 2
  

November 2008

A bit on the brief side, but nevertheless:

• 10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later.
  
• The Semantic Web Gang talks with Nova Spivack about the public release of Twine.
  
• MEDICO ontology (Imaging) provides a Hierarchy Web Interface, built with jOWL.
  
• Avatar Virtual body helps MD's visualize information
  

October 2008 Digest

• FreeBase sets up an RDF service.
  
• Watson - search engine for ontologies - semantic metadata.
  
• Protein Feature Ontology - White Paper - published in BioInformatics.
  
• Radar Networks releases Twine 1.0 to the general public.
  
• Ontoprise to extend Microsoft Sharepoint with semantic technologies.
  
• Project10X publishes the Web 3.0 Manifesto - providing insight into semantic technologies and opportunities, current and future.
  
• RDFa is now a W3C recommendation.
  
• Siri - new stealth company, T Gruber (known for his ontology definitions) is cofounder and CTO.
  
• Semantic Universe webcasts - Dean Allemang & Jim Hendler
  
• Talis podcast with Expert System.
  
• Rule ML 2008 Conference
  
• Building Linked Data For Both Humans and Machines - White Paper, RDFa to bridge the gap.
  
• Inform to enhance Washington Times Online Experience
  

  Inform will create 'Theme' pages, topic specific pages about significant news, automatically updated with relevant stories, photographs, video and blog posts.
  

  Quickly following this news: The New York Daily News will license the same solution.
  

  
  
• Best of Show Winners at Bio-IT World 2008 , in the categories knowledge discovery and visualisation, text mining, ...
  

September 2008 Digest

• OWLED 2008 Workshop - Lots of OWL papers.
  
• Thomson Reuteurs (OpenCalais) releases SemanticProxy.com
  
• Semantic web Gang Podcast - september.
  
• jOWL Ubiquity Script
  
• The Semantic Technology Value Chain - simple market segmentation effort.
  
• Uptake (travel) supports it's search functionality with an Ontology and some NLP.
  
• Cognition exposes their semantic applications, a combination of NLP and a touch of semantics.
  
• PowerSet technology already deployed in Microsoft Live Search.
  
• Vadlo custom search engine on the life sciences domain.
  
• Zemanta gets additional funding.
  
• There is a big future for Semantics in Advertising. See also the blog post 4 different kinds of semantic advertising.
  
• Creation of the World Wide Web Foundation by Tim Berners-Lee, different from World Wide Web Consortium - W3C.
  

July - August 2008 digest.

August 2008

• Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe
  
• Cell Cycle Ontology browser at Ontology Online
  
• State of the Semantic Web: Know Where to Look - DevX article.
  
• GOfetcher: A Database with Complex Searching Facility for Gene Ontology - White Paper
  
• Mozilla Labs - Ubiquity - Natural language commands for the browser. Interesting extensibility.
  
• Protege beta 4 is available
  
• On the semantics of advertising. Qoute: "Mr Provost said: "If people aren't bidding on keywords and are bidding on concepts, it could completely change the ball game."".
  
• cuil - new search engine, nice UI.
  

July 2008

• SHER - Scalable Highly Expressive Reasoner (IBM, for OWL-DL) is available for download.
  
• UMBEL Ontology has been released, 20.000 entries.
  
• Talis podcast - Dean Allemang talks about TopQuadrant and ‘Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist’.
  
• collaborative ontology engineering, wiki style. See also [1].
  
• Concept Hub wiki page - for collaboration among users and developers of health care terminologies. Big wiki of concepts. Uses Semantic MediaWiki.
  
• UK Government throws open public data in 20.000 pound mashup competition.
  
• jOWL status update - jOWL, javascript library that loads and reasons with OWL-DL files

June 2008 Digest

A bit later than usual, but nevertheless:

• Journal of Web Semantics Preprint server - access to dowloadable preprint pdf's of articles to appear in the Journal of Web Semantics.
  
• Peer39* - described as semantic advertising solutions enabled by a mix of NLP & machine learning technology.
  
• Ontolog Presentation, Mark Greaves - On the Halo Project (funded by microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) & Semantic Mediawiki
  
• Microsoft will buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus.
  
• Cycorp talks AI at google.
  
• RDFa is now a candidate recommendation at W3C
  
• Impressive demo: the Umbel (ontology) concept explorer
  
• New StartUp: TextDigger
  
• Syndication Web Services from Hakia
  
• Microsoft & Kaiser to Launch New Health-Records Program
  
• The Bibliographic Ontology 1.0 has been released. Zotero plans on using it to describe documents.