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.

September Digest

• CodeLink A Semantic Wiki for Code Documentation.


• Linguimatics - Linguamatics I2E Deployed by 81qd to Identify Key Information for Life Cycle Management Planning.


• Ontology widget - attempt to provide Ajax based ontology interaction.


• Onkosh - An Arabic Search Engine that claims NLP functionality.


• Work has started on OWL1.1, which will be featuring Qualified Cardinality Restrictions. See discussion for some background. OWL Working Group.


• IkeWiki - semantic wiki.


• OBO-Edit—an ontology editor for biologists - OBO-edit whitepaper.

August 2007 Digest

• FreeBase is in Public Alpha
  
• Ontology Modeling with DowJones
  
• Semantic Solution for Patent Processing Presented by Effective Soft (document tagging application)
  
• Brainwave launches text mining product for reseachers
  
• OwlSight - Google web toolkit-coded OWL browser

July 2007

Articles / Papers

• Mediating Semantic Web Service Access using the Semantic Firewall White paper.

Technology displays

• UMBEL: Upper-level Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer
• Snoggle: a graphical ontology mapper
• Powerset Search Engine claiming Natural Language Search capabilities.
• Lexxe Another search engine claiming Natural Language Search capabilities.

Market

• RadarNetwords - Web 3.0 startup company
• Oracle Unveils Oracle(r) Database 11g - 11g official press release.

End of June Digest

Articles / Papers

• Ontology and Taxonomy of Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture
• Economist: RNA - Really New Advances
  - Advances in Molecular Biology - RNA & the role of Ontologies

Technology displays

• GoPubMed
  - an ontology-based search engine for the life sciences.
• myOntology website
• ONKI
  - Finnish ontology server

Market

• deSciner
  - Integrates Powerful Search Engine for the Life Sciences from Transinsight into OBBeC Portal
• Pace University, IBM Pursue IT Labor Market Project
  - Web mining and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in labor market research.
• Bayer HealthCare AG
  - Renews and Expands its License for Ariadne Pathway Studio and MedScan Technology
• RNA Ontology Consortium
  - Has been promised half a million dollars to prune and tend the growing thicket of RNA-tailed acronyms.
• National Semantic Web Ontology Project in Finland

June 15th Digest

Theory and more

• Ontology and the Semantic Web
  - WhitePaper
• BFO Discuss
  - Discussing the need for a middle level ontology.

Technology

• FreeBase
  Building a user defined global ontology?
• SEO - Search Engine Optimization Tricks
  Google using an ontology.
• RSC Publishing announces pioneering work on RSS feeds
  About adding ontological metadata to RSS feeds.

Market

• Business Objects’ Data Integration Coup
• Elsevier’s Inteleos Poised to Launch Integrating Technology for Drug Tracking and Analysis
• MetaCarta Signs Agreement with IHS to Provide the Oil Gas Industry with Geographically Relevant data

May News digest

Companies

• BioWisdom Joins MDL® Isentris® Alliance
• Airbus selects metatomix
  

Technology

• Apelon vocabulary server now open source
• ontoprise Announces Support for Oracle's Semantic Web Technologies
• TopQuadrant Offers Reusable AJAX Components

Marketing talks

• Topquadrant: Business Collaboration – the Web 3.0 Way
• TopQuadrant: Web 2.0 arrives to find Web 3.0 under way