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.