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