SD Times - ITerating Weaves a Semantic Web

SD Times - ITerating Weaves a Semantic Web: "There are more than 100,000 open source projects hosted on SourceForge.net, and SourceForge is not a world onto itself: Web sites describe, link to and review software hosted in its repository. In that vein, how can information about those projects be kept accurate and up to date?

Dedicated individuals could spend countless hours carefully categorizing software and paging through change logs, describing software their own way for their own organization; islands of information about software can already be found across the Web.

ITerating, a startup that hosts a wiki-based software guide, thinks it has a better solution born out of so-called “Semantic Web” technologies. On Aug. 27, ITerating launched a free Semantic Web service that shares data about software with other Web sites, using standardized vocabularies."

ECS EPrints Service - Knowledge Enhanced Searching on the Web

ECS EPrints Service - Knowledge Enhanced Searching on the Web: "The move towards a Semantic Web has been in progress for many years and more recently there have been applications that make use of semantic web technology. One of the features that made the Web so easy to use is the ability to search web pages in a matter of seconds through the use of search engines. Now that the use of OWL and RDF as a knowledge representation format is increasing, the possibility appears to improve the quality of searching by using the semantic web to enhance the ‘ordinary’ Web. This paper outlines an ar-chitecture for using distributed knowledge bases to assist and improve search-ing on the web."

Using Wikipedia as a Web Database

Using Wikipedia as a Web Database: "The DBpedia.org project approaches both problems by extracting structured information from Wikipedia and by making this information available on the Semantic Web. DBpedia.org allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to DBpedia data."

An Ontology and a Software Framework for Competency Modeling and

An Ontology and a Software Framework for Competency Modeling and Management

"The importance given to competency management is well justified. Acquiring new competencies is the central goal of any education or knowledge management process. Thus, it must be embedded in any software framework as an instructional engineering tool, to inform the runtime environment of the knowledge that is processed by actors, and their situation toward achieving competency-acquisition objectives. We present here some of our results in the last 10 years that have led to an ontology for designing competency-based learning and knowledge management applications. Based on this ontology, we present a software framework for ontology-driven e-learning systems."

Battle for the Future of the Net

Battle for the Future of the Net: "European engineers, working with researchers from the U.S. and elsewhere, already have played a big role in the development of basic Web 3.0 standards. Now, governments are raising the stakes to keep Europe at the forefront. 'They want to create the defining technologies for the Semantic Web and give European companies an advantage in the market,' says Mark Greaves, a scientist with the asset management firm Vulcan."

Digital Web Magazine - RDF For The Rest Of Us

Digital Web Magazine - RDF For The Rest Of Us: "RDF is different. It’s not a format; it’s a framework for describing data. What RDF does is to take a step back; instead of giving you a fixed set of terms to label your data with (such as HTML’s elements or a microformat’s class names), RDF provides you with a framework in which you can mix-and-match terms from existing vocabularies—or invent your own—in whatever combination best suits your particular content."

OwlSight

OwlSight: "OwlSight is an OWL ontology browser that runs in any modern web browser; it's developed with Google Web Toolkit. OwlSight is the client component and uses Pellet as its OWL reasoner."

Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web

Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web: "This document gives an overview on the state-of-the-art of multimedia metadata formats. Initially, practical relevant vocabularies for developers of Semantic Web applications are listed according to their modality scope. In the second part of this document, the focus is set on the integration of the multimedia vocabularies into the Semantic Web, that is to say, formal representations of the vocabularies are discussed."

Semantic Search | Search Engine of the Day

Search Engine of the Day: "SWSE is a search engine for RDF on the Web, and provides the equivalent services a search engine currently provides for the HTML Web. The system explores and indexes the Semantic Web and provides an interface through which users can find the information they are looking for. Because of the inherent semantics of RDF and other Semantic Web languages, the search and information retrieval capabilities of SWSE are potentially much more powerful than those of current search engines."

The Semantic Web Goes to Work

The Semantic Web Goes to Work: "You better figure out what the Semantic Web is and soon, because its concepts have graduated from academia and are starting to contribute to your competitor's bottom line."