tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2255834783924265482023-11-15T08:09:11.440-08:00Ontology NewsMonthly Digests: Interesting snippets of information from the semantic web frontiers.David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-18866857248666126552009-02-22T23:31:00.000-08:002009-02-22T23:34:50.971-08:00January 2009 Digest<ul><li><a href="http://semanticgang.talis.com/2009/01/16/january-2009-the-semantic-web-gang-discusses-calais-40-linked-data-and-google/">The Semantic Web Gang discusses Calais 4.0, Linked Data, and Google</a><br /></li><li> <a href="http://www.neon-project.org/">Neon</a> 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.<br /><dl><dd><a href="http://www.neon-toolkit.org/">Neon Tooltkit</a> : an extensible open-source Ontology Engineering Environment (Java, Eclipse-Based). Starting point of the toolkit is OntoStudio of <a href="http://www.ontoprise.de/en/home/">OntoPrise</a>.<br /></dd></dl><br /></li><li>Non-W3C proposal <a href="http://buzzword.org.uk/2008/rdf-ease/spec">RDF-EASE</a>: a suggestion to specify <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/">RDFa</a> bindings in css-like stylesheets.<br /></li><li>TopQuadrant releases <a href="http://composing-the-semantic-web.blogspot.com/2008/12/topbraid-composer-30-goes-into-beta.html">TopBraid Composer 3.0 beta</a>.<br /><dl><dd>Interesting <a href="http://composing-the-semantic-web.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-sparql-based-inferencing-and.html">video</a> on (SPARQL-based) inferencing and constraint checking in TopBraid Composer.<br /></dd></dl><br /></li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-35294517554296561332009-01-05T00:23:00.000-08:002009-01-05T00:24:43.429-08:00December 2008 Digest<div><br /><ul><li>Zemanta releases <a title="http://bnode.org/blog/2008/12/09/zemanta-releases-lod-connected-nlp-api" href="http://bnode.org/blog/2008/12/09/zemanta-releases-lod-connected-nlp-api">LOD-connected NLP API</a><br/>Links of Interest:<br /><ul><li><a title="http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/" href="http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/">Linking Open Data (LOD)</a><br /></li><li><a title="http://www.zemanta.com/api/" href="http://www.zemanta.com/api/">Zemanta NLP API</a> - Alternative to Reuters <a title="http://www.opencalais.com/" href="http://www.opencalais.com/">OpenCalais</a>?<br /></li></ul><br /></li><li><a title="http://cb.semsol.org/" href="http://cb.semsol.org/">Semantic CrunchBase</a> - a <a title="http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SPARQL_endpoint" href="http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SPARQL_endpoint">SPARQL-Endpoint</a> to <a title="http://www.crunchbase.com/" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/">CrunchBase</a> (directory of technology companies, people, and investors).<br /></li><li>Talis Podcast: <a title="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/12/mark-greaves-talks-with-talis-about-vulcan-and-semantic-web-opportunities.php" href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/12/mark-greaves-talks-with-talis-about-vulcan-and-semantic-web-opportunities.php">Mark Greaves about Vulcan and semantic web opportunities</a>. Vulcan is, amongst other things, an investor into semweb companies and solutions.<br /></li><li>ReadWriteWeb: <a title="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.php" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.php">10 new semantic web products to watch</a> - 2009.<br /></li><li>World Wide Web Consortium publishes eleven documents about <a title="http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item204" href="http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item204">OWL 2</a><br /></li></ul><br /></div>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-42120811047564059802008-12-01T23:33:00.000-08:002008-12-04T03:06:01.051-08:00November 2008<p><br />A bit on the brief side, but nevertheless:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_semantic_apps_to_watch_one_year_later.php">10 Semantic Apps to Watch</a> - One Year Later.<br /></li><li>The <a href="http://semanticgang.talis.com/2008/11/04/october-2008-the-semantic-web-gang-discusses-the-launch-of-twine/">Semantic Web Gang</a> talks with Nova Spivack about the public release of <a title="http://www.twine.com/" href="http://www.twine.com/">Twine</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~moeller/ontologies/medico-browser/">MEDICO</a> ontology (Imaging) provides a Hierarchy Web Interface, built with <a title="jOWL - Semantic Javascript" href="http://jowl.ontologyonline.org">jOWL</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22375.wss">Avatar</a> Virtual body helps MD's visualize information<br /></li></ul><br /></p>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-8196796489380911622008-10-31T00:46:00.000-07:002008-11-02T23:37:26.504-08:00October 2008 Digest<div><br /><ul><li><a title="http://rdf.freebase.com/" href="http://rdf.freebase.com/">FreeBase</a> sets up an RDF service.<br /></li><li><a title="http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/WatsonWUI/index.html" href="http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/WatsonWUI/index.html">Watson</a> - search engine for ontologies - semantic metadata.<br /></li><li><a title="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/btn528v1" href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/btn528v1">Protein Feature Ontology</a> - White Paper - published in BioInformatics.<br /></li><li>Radar Networks releases <a title="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10070657-2.html" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10070657-2.html">Twine 1.0</a> to the general public.<br /></li><li><a title="http://www.ontoprise.de/de/en/home/news/news-en/strategic-partnership.html" href="http://www.ontoprise.de/de/en/home/news/news-en/strategic-partnership.html">Ontoprise</a> to extend Microsoft Sharepoint with semantic technologies.<br /></li><li><a title="http://www.project10x.com/" href="http://www.project10x.com/">Project10X</a> publishes the <a title="http://www.project10x.com/about2.php" href="http://www.project10x.com/about2.php">Web 3.0 Manifesto</a> - providing insight into semantic technologies and opportunities, current and future.<br /></li><li><a title="http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item174" href="http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item174">RDFa</a> is now a W3C recommendation.<br /></li><li><a title="http://www.siri.com/" href="http://www.siri.com/">Siri</a> - new stealth company, T Gruber (known for his ontology definitions) is cofounder and CTO.<br /></li><li><a title="http://semanticuniverse.com/webcasts/" href="http://semanticuniverse.com/webcasts/">Semantic Universe webcasts</a> - Dean Allemang & Jim Hendler<br /></li><li><a title="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/10/brooke-aker-talks-with-talis-about-expert-system-and-the-semantic-web.php" href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/10/brooke-aker-talks-with-talis-about-expert-system-and-the-semantic-web.php">Talis podcast with Expert System</a>.<br /></li><li><a title="http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ruleML/" href="http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ruleML/">Rule ML 2008 Conference</a><br /></li><li><a title="http://www.joanneum.at/uploads/tx_publicationlibrary/HLW-2008-LDOW.pdf" href="http://www.joanneum.at/uploads/tx_publicationlibrary/HLW-2008-LDOW.pdf">Building Linked Data For Both Humans and Machines</a> - White Paper, RDFa to bridge the gap.<br /></li><li><a title="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/washington-times-engages-inform-technologies/story.aspx?guid={8D46A484-E9CC-45AF-9047-A84DD58A6C59}&dist=hppr" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/washington-times-engages-inform-technologies/story.aspx?guid={8D46A484-E9CC-45AF-9047-A84DD58A6C59}&dist=hppr">Inform to enhance Washington Times Online Experience</a><br /><dl><dd>Inform will create 'Theme' pages, topic specific pages about significant news, automatically updated with relevant stories, photographs, video and blog posts.<br /></dd><dd>Quickly following this news: <a title="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/daily-news-licenses-inform-technologies/story.aspx?guid={0D48C91B-2C5E-4768-9C29-C83DF5DADF52}&dist=hppr" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/daily-news-licenses-inform-technologies/story.aspx?guid={0D48C91B-2C5E-4768-9C29-C83DF5DADF52}&dist=hppr">The New York Daily News</a> will license the same solution.<br /></dd></dl><br /></li><li><a title="http://www.cms.bio-itworld.com/Corporate_Content.aspx?id=75258" href="http://www.cms.bio-itworld.com/Corporate_Content.aspx?id=75258">Best of Show Winners at Bio-IT World 2008 </a>, in the categories knowledge discovery and visualisation, text mining, ...<br /></li></ul><br /></div>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-35185175633140762482008-10-01T23:45:00.000-07:002008-10-01T23:47:10.908-07:00September 2008 Digest<ul><br /><li><a href="http://webont.org/owled/2008/accepted-papers.html" >OWLED 2008 Workshop</a> - Lots of OWL papers.<br /></li><li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=194">Thomson Reuteurs (OpenCalais)</a> releases <a href="http://www.semanticproxy.com/">SemanticProxy.com</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://semanticgang.talis.com/2008/09/23/september-2008-the-semantic-web-gang-discusses-investment-opportunities-in-semantic-technology/" >Semantic web Gang Podcast</a> - september.<br /></li><li><a href="http://ontologyonline.blogspot.com/2008/09/ubiquity-owl-dl-file-accessibility-and.html" >jOWL Ubiquity Script</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.semanticsincorporated.com/2008/09/the-semantic-technology-value-chain.html" >The Semantic Technology Value Chain</a> - simple market segmentation effort.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_travel_search_uptake.php" >Uptake (travel)</a> supports it's search functionality with an Ontology and some NLP.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.cognition.com/" >Cognition</a> exposes their semantic applications, a combination of NLP and a touch of semantics.<br /></li><li>PowerSet technology <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/live_search_powerset_integrati.php" >already deployed</a> in Microsoft Live Search.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.vadlo.com/" >Vadlo</a> custom search engine on the life sciences domain.<br /></li><li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=186" >Zemanta</a> gets additional funding.<br /></li><li>There is a big future for <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=185">Semantics in Advertising</a>. See also the blog post <a href="http://www.chiefmartec.com/2008/09/semantic-advertising-of-4-different-kinds.html" >4 different kinds of semantic advertising</a>.<br /></li><li>Creation of the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/news/2008/09/welcome-to-the-world-wide-web-foundation.html">World Wide Web Foundation</a> by Tim Berners-Lee, different from <a href="http://www.w3.org/" >World Wide Web Consortium - W3C</a>.<br /></li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-76117785300719249712008-08-28T03:12:00.000-07:002008-08-28T03:24:46.162-07:00July - August 2008 digest.<h3>August 2008</h3><br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.semic.eu/semic/">Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://ontologyonline.blogspot.com/2008/08/cell-cycle-ontology-hosted-at.html">Cell Cycle Ontology browser</a> at <a href="http://ontologyonline.org">Ontology Online</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.devx.com/semantic/Article/38981/0/page/1">State of the Semantic Web: Know Where to Look</a> - DevX article.<br /></li><li><a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/btn441v1">GOfetcher: A Database with Complex Searching Facility for Gene Ontology</a> - White Paper<br /></li><li><a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/">Mozilla Labs - Ubiquity</a> - Natural language commands for the browser. Interesting extensibility.<br /></li><li><a href="http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/Protege_4_beta_announcement">Protege beta 4 is available</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/payperclick/18741690/Semantic-web-could-transform-ads">On the semantics of advertising</a>. Qoute: "Mr Provost said: "If people aren't bidding on keywords and are bidding on concepts, it could completely change the ball game."".<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.cuil.com/">cuil</a> - new search engine, nice UI.<br /></li><br /></ul><br /><h3>July 2008</h3><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sher">SHER</a> - Scalable Highly Expressive Reasoner (IBM, for OWL-DL) is available for download.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.semantic-web.at/1.36.resource.248.umbel-a-new-fixed-star-in-the-global-knowledge-space.htm">UMBEL</a> Ontology has been released, 20.000 entries.<br /></li><li><a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/07/dean-allemang-talks-about-topquadrant-and-semantic-web-for-the-working-ontologist.php">Talis podcast</a> - Dean Allemang talks about TopQuadrant and ‘Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist’.<br /></li><li><a href="http://myontology.deri.at/prototype/">collaborative ontology engineering, wiki style</a>. See also <a href="http://www.myontology.org/">[1]</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.concepthub.org/wiki/Main_Page">Concept Hub wiki page</a> - for collaboration among users and developers of health care terminologies. Big wiki of concepts. Uses <a href="http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki">Semantic MediaWiki</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://blog.semantic-web.at/2008/07/03/uk-government-mashup-competition/">UK Government throws open public data in 20.000 pound mashup competition</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://ontologyonline.blogspot.com/2008/07/jowl-status-update.html">jOWL status update</a> - <a href="http://jowl.ontologyonline.org">jOWL</a>, javascript library that loads and reasons with OWL-DL files</li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-22722521205578897542008-07-11T04:52:00.001-07:002008-07-11T04:56:51.100-07:00June 2008 DigestA bit later than usual, but nevertheless:<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/navigation.html" >Journal of Web Semantics Preprint server</a> - access to dowloadable preprint pdf's of articles to appear in the Journal of Web Semantics.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.peer39.com/" >Peer39*</a> - described as semantic advertising solutions enabled by a mix of NLP & machine learning technology.<br /></li><li><a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_19" >Ontolog Presentation, Mark Greaves</a> - On the Halo Project (funded by microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) & Semantic Mediawiki<br /></li><li><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/26/microsoft-to-buy-semantic-search-engine-powerset-for-100m-plus/" >Microsoft will buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://andrewapeterson.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/dr-douglas-lenat-ceo-cycorp-natural-language-processing-ai-company/" >Cycorp talks AI at google</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item114" title="http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item114" >RDFa is now a candidate recommendation at W3C</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://umbel.zitgist.com/explorer.php" title="http://umbel.zitgist.com/explorer.php" >Impressive demo: the Umbel (ontology) concept explorer</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/semantic-search-startup-textdigger-unearths-a-business-model-and-some-venture-funding/" >New StartUp: TextDigger</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/hakia-launches-syndication-web-services-semantic-search-for-third-party-publishers/7150/" >Syndication Web Services from Hakia</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121299324510056869.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" >Microsoft & Kaiser to Launch New Health-Records Program</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/04/the-bibliographic-ontology-10/" >The Bibliographic Ontology 1.0</a> has been released. <a href="http://www.zotero.org/" >Zotero</a> plans on using it to describe documents.</li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-20334251573963561742008-06-09T04:01:00.000-07:002008-06-09T04:06:00.286-07:00May 2008 Digest<ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/wordlogic-bank-help-build-%E2%80%98thinking%E2%80%99-machines-16567.html">Article on the Open Ontology Repository (OOR)</a>.<br />The OOR is an initiative from the <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008_Communique">Ontolog Community</a>. If worked out well, this could be an influential project, especially if combined with web services.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=861880">SezWho Acquires Tejit</a><br />- Tejit's semantic-analysis engine, which uses <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing" title="Natural language processing">Natural Language Processing</a> (NLP) and semantic matching technology to identify topics, sentiments and entities present in web content.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://newsblaze.com/story/2008052805031800006.pnw/newsblaze/HIGHTECH/High-Tech.html">Dow Jones Introduces Enhanced Business Semantic Management Tool, Synaptica</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semtech_making_the_web_searchable_searchmonkey.php">ReadWriteWeb on YaHoo! SearchMonkey</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/search/lucene-search-gets-some-new-functionality-002692.php">Apache Lucene</a><br />integrates Teragram Linguistic Tools.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://agraph.franz.com/allegrograph/">Franz inc.</a><br />unveils the AllegroGraph 64-bit RDFStore.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.google.com/health">Google Health goes public beta</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=AF13BA1D-F28A-4E24-B9B7-0C83D52C61E8">Nuance launches web-based BI tool for clinical use</a><br /><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/">Yahoo SearchMonkey</a><br />opens it's doors to developers.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=147">TopQuadrant hires Jeremy Carroll as Chief Product Architect</a><br />Jeremy Carroll is the lead architect of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena_%28framework%29">Jena Toolkit</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9940887-80.html">Microsoft may show interest in Powerset</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.powerset.com/">Powerset is Live</a><br /></li><br /><li>Following Yahoo & Digg, <a href="http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=255816">myspace</a><br />plans to implement RDFa/Microformats (hardly the semantic web, but nevertheless).<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/05/peter-mika-talks-about-searchmonkey-and-the-semantic-technology-conference.php">Talis Podcast - Peter Mika</a><br />of Yahoo! Research, covering <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/preview.html">SearchMonkey</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>& semantics.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/browser/ontologies">New website for browsing ontologies among which the basic formal ontology (BFO)</a><br /></li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-5202945179411438782008-05-06T00:22:00.000-07:002008-05-06T00:30:07.841-07:00April 2008 Digest<ul><br /><li><a href="https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=2cd192e7-154d-11dd-b70e-37125b5773b4">presentation Ontologies for the Enterprise</a> by Duane Nickull.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.linkeddataplanet.com/index.php">LinkedDataPlanet Conference</a> - June 17-18 2008.</li><br /><li><a href="http://searchengineland.com/080424-113600.php">Yahoo! Launches SearchMonkey Developer Tool</a> - See <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/preview.html">SearchMonkey</a> - semantic web connection: Microformats.</li><br /><li><a href="http://home.zcubes.com/">ZCubes</a> - semi web3.0 application, in the lines of Twine?</li><br /><li><a href="https://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/anatomylens/">Anatomy Lens</a> - IBM Research, semantic search on PubMed.</li><br /><li><a href="http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/iaa.index.html">SHER</a> an OWL Reasoner by IBM Research</li><br /><li><a href="http://newsblaze.com/story/2008041406032800030.pnw/newsblaze/HIGHTECH/High-Tech.html">Microsoft is building an Ontology Editor</a> with <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default.aspx" title="Microsoft Silverlight" target="_blank">Silverlight</a>.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200804/ij_04_15_08a.html">Semantic Outreach Group Ends on High Note</a> - chaired by Susie Stephens / <a href="/mediawiki/index.php/Eli_Lilly">Eli Lilly</a> & Co.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11002939">Start making sense</a> - the economist on the semantic web</li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-88157143931266896372008-03-28T01:00:00.000-07:002008-04-01T00:14:53.602-07:00March 2008 Digest<ul><li><a title="Zementa" href="http://www.zemanta.com/">Zementa</a>, another semantic annotation startup?<br /></li><li><a title="Triplify" href="http://triplify.org/Overview">Triplify.org</a>, helps build rdf from relational database entries.<br /></li><li><a title="Semantic technology conference" href="http://www.semantic-conference.com/ataglance/">2008 Semantic technology conference</a> - schedule<br /></li><li><a title="Zitgist" href="http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=428">Zitgist LLC</a> gets a new CEO.<br /></li><li><a title="Textwise contest" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=121">TextWise</a> offers $1million for an American semantic hack<br /></li><li><a title="Hakia" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=118">Hakia</a> licenses OntoSem technology to third parties<br /></li><li><a href="Teragram">SAS</a> buys natural language processing vendor Teragram<br /></li><li><a href="Yahoo and the semantic web">Yahoo</a> embraces the Semantic Web? - mainly adding microformat indexing?<br /></li><li><a title="Talis podcast" href="Talis">Talis podcast</a> - Barak Pridor, ClearForest CEO talks about ClearForest, Calais, Reuters and the Semantic Web<br /></li><li><a title="L&C" href="https://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=830768">Language and Computing</a> partners With Revolution Health to Improve Patient Health and Wellness<br /></li><li><a href="http://jowl.ontologyonline.org">jOWL</a> a semantic javascript library, by <a href="http://ontologyonline.org">Ontology Online</a></li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-19144737545420297742008-02-28T03:33:00.000-08:002008-02-28T03:58:00.378-08:00February 2008 Digest<ul><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/02/sir_tim_bernerslee_talks_about_1.php">Tim Berners-Lee about the semantic web on Talis Podcasts</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://calais.contextforge.com/?p=5">Status of OpenCalais</a> after one month of operation.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.trueknowledge.com/">TrueKnowledge.com</a><br />Natural Language Wikipedia search engine?<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb694923.htm">Teragram</a><br />Delivers Text Analytics Solutions and Language Technologies<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://ontowiki.net/Projects/OntoWiki">OntoWiki</a> looking impressive.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://aksw.org/Projects/xOperator">xOperator</a><br />Semantic agent for xmpp / jabber network which finds and shares content about resources (using RDF / SPARQL).<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/biowisdom-announces-second-partner-of-safety-intelligence-program,283091.shtml">BioWisdom Announces Second Partner of Safety Intelligence Program</a> (Johnson & Johnson)<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/language-and-computing-to-provide-natural-language-processing-technology-to,285089.shtml">Language and Computing to Provide Natural Language Processing Technology to Ochsner Health System</a><br /><br />See also: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.landcglobal.com/" title="L&C">Language and Computing</a>, <a href="http://www.ochsner.org/">Ochsner Health System</a></span><br /></li><br /><li>VIDEO:<br />good explanation from Nova Spivack (Twine) <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2008/02/video-of-my-sem.html">on the semantic web</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/semantic_web/browse_frm/thread/44b837408f9e3e12">Mayo Clinic Internship on ontology management</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/02/reuters_gets_a_very_clever_ceo.php">Reuters gets a very clever CEO</a><br />Reuters & OpenCalais.<br /><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reuters_calais.php">More information on Reuters OpenCalais service - ReadWriteWeb</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://composing-the-semantic-web.blogspot.com/2008/02/text-analysis-with-opencalais-in.html">Text Analysis with OpenCalais in TopBraid</a><br />TopQuadrant uses the Calais service for text-interpretation. OpenCalias is owned by Reuters (the newsgroup), who recently acquired <a href="http://www.clearforest.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.clearforest.com/" rel="nofollow">ClearForest</a> (see also December 2007 & January 2008 digest).<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2008/02/07/our-babys-all-grows-up/">NASA quietly gets on with putting the Semantic Web to work</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/24/3/443">OBO Explorer: an editor for open biomedical ontologies in OWL</a> - white paper.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/3_semantic_web_talks_for">3 semantic web talks for JavaOne 2008</a><br /></li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-26897823489262388102008-02-19T05:25:00.000-08:002008-02-19T05:31:12.771-08:00January 2008 Digest<ul><li><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/29/questia-founder-moves-on-to-stealth-semantic-startup-peoplepad/"> PeoplePad</a> - semantic web company, currently in stealth Mode.</li><br /><li><a href="http://knoesis.wright.edu/research/sss/standards/sa-rest/">Semantically enhancing REST services</a> - Paper.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.opencalais.com/">OpenCalais</a> - Semantic annotation / submit unstructured text and receive back named entities, facts and events contained within the text. By Reuters</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.gopubmed.org/">GoPubMed</a> - semantic PubMed, looking better by the minute.<br/><a style="margin-left:20px;font-size:small" href="http://www.gopubmed.org/GoMeshPubMed/gomeshpubmed/Help/Video/gopubmed_en.html">Video introduction to GoPubMed</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_what_is_the_killer_app.php">Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App?</a> - by ReadWriteWeb.</li><br /><li><a href="http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_036238.hcsp?dDocName=bok1_036238"> Computers, Coding, and Change</a> Article on Computer-assisted coding and its impact on coders.</li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-56421407761840000332008-01-08T05:07:00.000-08:002008-01-08T05:12:45.798-08:00December DigestA bit brief, but nevertheless:<br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.thefigtrees.net/lee/blog/2007/12/scientific_american_the_semant.html">Scientific American - The semantic web in Action</a> (<a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web-in-action">On-site</a>) - Follow-up article to a <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21">2001 article</a> talking about companies and projects using semantic web technology.</li> <br /><li><a href="http://sws.clearforest.com/Blog/?page_id=8">Clearforest</a>: 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.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.felgner.ch/2007/12/ontology.html">Movieclip against ontology, categorisation, etc...</a><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-14642931361516499892007-12-13T03:45:00.000-08:002007-12-13T03:49:52.956-08:00November Digest - Ontology News<ul><li><a href="http://www.barneypell.com/archives/2007/11/natural_language_and_the_semantic_web_iswc_keynote_talk.html">Natural Language and the Semantic Web: ISWC Keynote talk</a> <br>- Powerset again: <br />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.". </li><li><a href="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/11/curehuntercom_aims_to_distill_evidence_based_medicine.html">CureHunter.com Aims to Distill Evidence Based Medicine</a> - Knowledge discovery in medicine. </li><li><a href="http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/2f72825e-4aee-4158-9480-d553f56190e7">An Ontology for developing e-Business Models</a> - whitepaper. </li><li><a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=793838">BioWisdom Launches OmniViz Academic Program</a> - mention of ontology. <br></li><li><a href="http://www.topbraidcomposer.com/tbc-me.html">TopBraid announces TopBraid Composer - Maestro Edition</a>.</li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-67506967893427375292007-11-14T03:22:00.000-08:002007-11-14T03:28:11.019-08:00October Digest<ul><li><a href="http://geekycoder.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/is-powerset-the-next-google-a-hype">PowerSet a Hype?</a> Questioning PowerSet.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.pandia.com/sew/553-quaero-2.html">The Quaero project</a> - new European search technology</li><br /><li><a href="http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2007/10/current-status-of-web-evolution-by.html">web2.0 summit summary</a> - some interesting thoughts on the status of web3.0.</li><br /><li>two interesting Ontolog presentations:<br /><ol><br /><li><a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_11">Distributed Ontology Development with Protégé</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_18">A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL</a> from Oracle.</li></ol></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.twine.com/">Twine</a> Something semantic, unclear what it delivers/is about at this stage. From Radar Networks: see also <a href="http://ontologynews.blogspot.com/2007/08/july-2007.html">news July</a>.</li><br /><li><a href="http://innowave.blogspot.com/2007/10/natural-language-search-mining-web-for.html">again PowerSet</a>. Unbelievable how much online marketing these guys do, and they don't even have a product to show yet.</li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-567215098478237552007-10-01T06:54:00.000-07:002007-10-01T07:02:03.802-07:00September Digest<ul><li><a href="http://www.woggie.net/2007/09/26/codelink-a-semantic-wiki-for-code-documentation/ ">CodeLink</a> A Semantic Wiki for Code Documentation.</li><br /><li><a href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070927005315&newsLang=en"> Linguimatics</a> - Linguamatics I2E Deployed by 81qd to Identify Key Information for Life Cycle Management Planning.</li><br /><li><a href="http://smd.stanford.edu/ontologyWidget/">Ontology widget</a> - attempt to provide Ajax based ontology interaction.</li><br /><li><a href"http://www.onkosh.com/">Onkosh</a> - An Arabic Search Engine that claims NLP functionality.</li><br /><li><a href="http://realworldxml.blogspot.com/2007/09/w3c-owl-group-to-refine-and-extend-web.html"> Work has started on OWL1.1</a>, which will be featuring <b>Qualified Cardinality Restrictions</b>. See <a href="http://osdir.com/ml/w3c.working-groups.swhcls/2006-09/msg00153.html">discussion</a> for some background. <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/">OWL Working Group</a>.</li><br /><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ikewiki/">IkeWiki</a> - semantic wiki.</li><br /><li><a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/23/16/2198"> OBO-Edit—an ontology editor for biologists</a> - OBO-edit whitepaper.</li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-33619988285762616442007-09-03T07:28:00.001-07:002007-09-10T23:45:16.026-07:00August 2007 Digest<span xmlns=''><ul><li><a href='http://www.freebase.com'>FreeBase is in Public Alpha</a><br /> </li><li><a href='http://factiva.com/products/taxonomy/features.asp?node=menuElem1505&from=%20Synaptica'>Ontology Modeling with DowJones</a><br /> </li><li><a href='http://www.prlog.org/10026521-semantic-solution-for-patent-processing-presented-by-effective-soft.html'>Semantic Solution for Patent Processing Presented by Effective Soft</a> (document tagging application)<br /></li><li><a href='http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200708081653.htm'>Brainwave</a> launches text mining product for reseachers<br /></li><li><a href='http://pellet.owldl.com/ontology-browser/'>OwlSight</a> - Google web toolkit-coded OWL browser</li></ul></span><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-58000990795703887222007-08-10T01:37:00.000-07:002007-08-10T01:48:17.319-07:00July 2007<h3>Articles / Papers</h3><br /><ul><li><a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14288/">Mediating Semantic Web Service Access using the Semantic Firewall</a> White paper.</li></ul><br /><br /><h3>Technology displays</h3><br /><ul><li><a href="http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/19/umbel-upper-level-mapping-and-binding-exchange-layer/"> UMBEL: Upper-level Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer</a></li><li><a href="http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2007/07/18/snoggle-a-graphical-ontology-mapper"> Snoggle: a graphical ontology mapper</a></li><li><a href="http://www.powerset.com/">Powerset</a> Search Engine claiming Natural Language Search capabilities.</li><li><a href="http://www.lexxe.com/"> Lexxe</a> Another search engine claiming Natural Language Search capabilities.</li></ul><br /><h3>Market</h3><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.radarnetworks.com/"> RadarNetwords</a> - Web 3.0 startup company</li><li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jul/database-11g.html">Oracle Unveils Oracle(r) Database 11g</a> - 11g official press release.</li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-82947969573563666922007-07-01T23:42:00.000-07:002007-07-01T23:58:22.391-07:00End of June Digest<b>Articles / Papers</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb491121.aspx" title="Whitepaper">Ontology and Taxonomy of Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture</a></li><li><a href="http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9333471"> Economist: RNA - Really New Advances</a><br />- Advances in Molecular Biology - RNA & the role of Ontologies</li></ul><br /><br /><b>Technology displays</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.gopubmed.org/" title="GoPubMed">GoPubMed</a><br />- an ontology-based search engine for the life sciences.</li><li><a href="http://www.myontology.org/index.html" title="myOntology">myOntology website</a></li><li><a href="http://www.yso.fi/onki/mao/">ONKI</a><br />- Finnish ontology server</li></ul><br /><br /><b>Market</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/19949/">deSciner</a><br />- Integrates Powerful Search Engine for the Life Sciences from Transinsight into OBBeC Portal</li><li><a href="http://campustechnology.com/articles/48634/ Pace University, IBM Pursue IT Labor Market Project">Pace University, IBM Pursue IT Labor Market Project</a><br />- Web mining and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in labor market research.</li><li><a href="http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/6/emw533830.htm">Bayer HealthCare AG</a><br />- Renews and Expands its License for Ariadne Pathway Studio and MedScan Technology</li><li><a href="http://roc.bgsu.edu/">RNA Ontology Consortium</a><br />- Has been promised half a million dollars to prune and tend the growing thicket of RNA-tailed acronyms.</li><li><a href="http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/finnonto/">National Semantic Web Ontology Project in Finland</a></li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-54673147314790722182007-06-10T23:47:00.000-07:002007-06-18T00:01:59.506-07:00June 15th Digest<b>Theory and more</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1897">Ontology and the Semantic Web</a><br />- WhitePaper</li><li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-discuss/browse_thread/thread/236f8362d1b7b980?hl=en" >BFO Discuss</a><br />- Discussing the need for a middle level ontology.</li></ul><br /><b>Technology</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.freebase.com/signin/signin">FreeBase</a><br />Building a user defined global ontology?</li><li><a href="http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2007/06/seo-search-engine-optimization-tricks.html"> SEO - Search Engine Optimization Tricks</a><br />Google using an ontology.</li><li><a href="http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/kommunikation_medien/bericht-85079.html ">RSC Publishing announces pioneering work on RSS feeds</a><br />About adding ontological metadata to RSS feeds.</li></ul><br /><b>Market</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.esj.com/business_intelligence/article.aspx?EditorialsID=8469"> Business Objects’ Data Integration Coup</a></li><li><a href="http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=38480"> Elsevier’s Inteleos Poised to Launch Integrating Technology for Drug Tracking and Analysis</a></li><li><a href="http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/11845/">MetaCarta Signs Agreement with IHS to Provide the Oil Gas Industry with Geographically Relevant data</a></li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-52342609951696197292007-05-31T04:06:00.000-07:002007-06-18T00:02:16.322-07:00May News digest<b>Companies</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.genomicsproteomics.com/index.aspx?ID=82670">BioWisdom Joins MDL® Isentris® Alliance</a></li><li><a href="http://www.socialcomputingmagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=218"> Airbus selects metatomix<br /></a></li></ul><br /><b>Technology</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.apelon.com/news/PressReleases/PR_20070425.htm">Apelon vocabulary server now open source</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-21-2007/0004592258&EDATE="> ontoprise Announces Support for Oracle's Semantic Web Technologies</a></li><li><a href="http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/378516.htm">TopQuadrant Offers Reusable AJAX Components</a></li></ul><br /><b>Marketing talks</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.socialcomputingmagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=218">Topquadrant: Business Collaboration – the Web 3.0 Way</a></li><li><a href="http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199001209"> TopQuadrant: Web 2.0 arrives to find Web 3.0 under way</a></li></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com0