April 2008 Digest

• presentation Ontologies for the Enterprise by Duane Nickull.


• LinkedDataPlanet Conference - June 17-18 2008.


• Yahoo! Launches SearchMonkey Developer Tool - See SearchMonkey - semantic web connection: Microformats.


• ZCubes - semi web3.0 application, in the lines of Twine?


• Anatomy Lens - IBM Research, semantic search on PubMed.


• SHER an OWL Reasoner by IBM Research


• Microsoft is building an Ontology Editor with Silverlight.


• Semantic Outreach Group Ends on High Note - chaired by Susie Stephens / Eli Lilly & Co.


• Start making sense - the economist on the semantic web

March 2008 Digest

• Zementa, another semantic annotation startup?
  
• Triplify.org, helps build rdf from relational database entries.
  
• 2008 Semantic technology conference - schedule
  
• Zitgist LLC gets a new CEO.
  
• TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack
  
• Hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties
  
• SAS buys natural language processing vendor Teragram
  
• Yahoo embraces the Semantic Web? - mainly adding microformat indexing?
  
• Talis podcast - Barak Pridor, ClearForest CEO talks about ClearForest, Calais, Reuters and the Semantic Web
  
• Language and Computing partners With Revolution Health to Improve Patient Health and Wellness
  
• jOWL a semantic javascript library, by Ontology Online

February 2008 Digest

• Tim Berners-Lee about the semantic web on Talis Podcasts
  


• Status of OpenCalais after one month of operation.


• TrueKnowledge.com
  Natural Language Wikipedia search engine?
  


• Teragram
  Delivers Text Analytics Solutions and Language Technologies
  


• OntoWiki looking impressive.
  


• xOperator
  Semantic agent for xmpp / jabber network which finds and shares content about resources (using RDF / SPARQL).
  


• BioWisdom Announces Second Partner of Safety Intelligence Program (Johnson & Johnson)
  


• Language and Computing to Provide Natural Language Processing Technology to Ochsner Health System
  
  See also: Language and Computing, Ochsner Health System
  


• VIDEO:
  good explanation from Nova Spivack (Twine) on the semantic web
  


• Mayo Clinic Internship on ontology management
  


• Reuters gets a very clever CEO
  Reuters & OpenCalais.
  More information on Reuters OpenCalais service - ReadWriteWeb
  


• Text Analysis with OpenCalais in TopBraid
  TopQuadrant uses the Calais service for text-interpretation. OpenCalias is owned by Reuters (the newsgroup), who recently acquired ClearForest (see also December 2007 & January 2008 digest).
  


• NASA quietly gets on with putting the Semantic Web to work
  


• OBO Explorer: an editor for open biomedical ontologies in OWL - white paper.
  


• 3 semantic web talks for JavaOne 2008
  

January 2008 Digest

• PeoplePad - semantic web company, currently in stealth Mode.


• Semantically enhancing REST services - Paper.


• OpenCalais - Semantic annotation / submit unstructured text and receive back named entities, facts and events contained within the text. By Reuters


• GoPubMed - semantic PubMed, looking better by the minute.
  Video introduction to GoPubMed


• Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? - by ReadWriteWeb.


• Computers, Coding, and Change Article on Computer-assisted coding and its impact on coders.

December Digest

A bit brief, but nevertheless:

• Scientific American - The semantic web in Action (On-site) - Follow-up article to a 2001 article talking about companies and projects using semantic web technology.


• Clearforest: Online parsing of free text and extraction of companies, names, etc... Seems to work (even with a little built-in reference resolution), save to xml functionality seems broken.


• Movieclip against ontology, categorisation, etc...
  

November Digest - Ontology News

• Natural Language and the Semantic Web: ISWC Keynote talk
  - Powerset again:
  interesting comment on semantic annotation: "First, NLP systems can now automatically create annotations from unstructured text. This provides the data that semantic web applications require.". 
• CureHunter.com Aims to Distill Evidence Based Medicine - Knowledge discovery in medicine. 
• An Ontology for developing e-Business Models - whitepaper. 
• BioWisdom Launches OmniViz Academic Program - mention of ontology.
  
• TopBraid announces TopBraid Composer - Maestro Edition.

October Digest

• PowerSet a Hype? Questioning PowerSet.


• The Quaero project - new European search technology


• web2.0 summit summary - some interesting thoughts on the status of web3.0.


• two interesting Ontolog presentations:
  
  
  
  1. Distributed Ontology Development with Protégé
  
  
  2. A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL from Oracle.


• Twine Something semantic, unclear what it delivers/is about at this stage. From Radar Networks: see also news July.


• again PowerSet. Unbelievable how much online marketing these guys do, and they don't even have a product to show yet.