Medical industry first group on semantic Web: "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched its first special interest group to begin the planning necessary for application of semantic Web technologies in a vertical industry.
The new group, called the Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG), will be the first to deploy semantic Web specifications into services defined by a user community.
Until now, semantic Web specifications have been largely generalized in nature, making it difficult to see their full potential.
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says that 'this new venture puts W3C specification through the paces of a dynamic, multifaceted and interdependent set of communities.'"
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
First Neurology Repository for the Semantic Web
Teranode Corporation - Teranode Press Releases: "December 12, 2005 - Teranode Corporation, the leading innovator of experiment design automation (XDA) software for the Life Sciences industry, today announced it will collaborate with Science Commons, a project of the non-profit corporation Creative Commons, to build and implement the industry's first neurology repository for the Semantic Web. The project, dubbed NeuroCommons.org (www.neurocommons.org), will be a freely accessible neurology commons of data, tools, and pathway knowledge to be used by public and private researchers. Science Commons will use Teranode's award-winning platform, TERANODE XDA, as the infrastructure for NeuroCommons.org. All content will be available in Resource Description Framework (RDF), allowing participating foundations to search and access a shared repository of data and research, currently restricted by different formats and copyright restrictions. "
New Brain Trust to Work Like the Web
New Brain Trust to Work Like the Web: "'All the Web can do is find a document for you and display it for you,' said Wilbanks. 'The semantic web marks things up in a more concrete manner; it says that there are relationships.' For example, a scientist could search for peer-reviewed articles about a particular gene, data related to that gene, or models about how that gene might affect other genes and proteins.
Neurocommons.org is set up to be maintained by its community of users. Researchers will be able to annotate each others' data.
Wilbanks hopes that, eventually, researchers will see contributing information to the semantic Web as part of their scientific duty, much like peer review. But he admits that it isn't yet part of scientific culture. 'It's hard to get someone to take the time to say, 'I'm going to make my data reusable by someone that doesn't know me.' '"
Neurocommons.org is set up to be maintained by its community of users. Researchers will be able to annotate each others' data.
Wilbanks hopes that, eventually, researchers will see contributing information to the semantic Web as part of their scientific duty, much like peer review. But he admits that it isn't yet part of scientific culture. 'It's hard to get someone to take the time to say, 'I'm going to make my data reusable by someone that doesn't know me.' '"
Monday, October 10, 2005
Masters of the Semantic Web
Masters of the Semantic Web :: Bio-IT World: "'The advent of the Semantic Web is providing the life sciences community with the standards and tools needed to build integrative informatics systems,' says John Reynders, information officer, discovery & development informatics, at Eli Lilly. 'We are very interested in the [Semantic Web standards] and view them as essential tools in cracking the heterogeneous data integration challenge facing our drug-hunters here at Lilly.'"
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Northrop Grumman Acquires Proprietary Software from Tucana Technologies
Northrop Grumman Acquires Proprietary Software from Tucana Technologies: "Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) announced that it has purchased the rights to proprietary software developed by Tucana Technologies, a software-products company specializing in using semantic technologies to integrate enterprise information. Northrop Grumman will market these technologies to government and commercial users seeking more efficient methods of sharing business data.
Tucana's software was created for advanced applications that use 'metadata,' or data which describes other information, to integrate information from different sources. This technology is based upon standards established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to form the basis of the 'Semantic Web,' which is the evolving next-generation of the Web. The Semantic Web is being developed through use of common protocol languages so that machines can find, sort and classify information more efficiently.
With the explosive expansion of the digital-data domain, the defense, intelligence, healthcare and financial industries are looking at semantic applications and technologies with great promise for addressing the challenge of "knowledge discovery." Tucana's technologies will enable a new generation of software applications that will allow for the organization and mining of vast amounts of data and deliver the ability to rapidly derive knowledge from previously uncorrelated events. The user communities will move from information processing to knowledge discovery."
Tucana's software was created for advanced applications that use 'metadata,' or data which describes other information, to integrate information from different sources. This technology is based upon standards established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to form the basis of the 'Semantic Web,' which is the evolving next-generation of the Web. The Semantic Web is being developed through use of common protocol languages so that machines can find, sort and classify information more efficiently.
With the explosive expansion of the digital-data domain, the defense, intelligence, healthcare and financial industries are looking at semantic applications and technologies with great promise for addressing the challenge of "knowledge discovery." Tucana's technologies will enable a new generation of software applications that will allow for the organization and mining of vast amounts of data and deliver the ability to rapidly derive knowledge from previously uncorrelated events. The user communities will move from information processing to knowledge discovery."
Sunday, September 04, 2005
NewsForge | Explore the Semantic Web using Piggy Bank
Explore the Semantic Web using Piggy Bank: "If you've ever wondered what all the excitement surrounding the Resource Description Framework (RDF) or the Semantic Web is about, then I have good news. You can explore both without leaving your Web browser, using Piggy Bank.
Piggy Bank is a Java-powered Firefox extension developed by MIT's SIMILE project, a group that is working on a suite of Semantic Web applications and tools. Piggy Bank runs in the background while you browse the Web in your normal fashion. However, when you hit upon a page with an RDF link, a small 'data coin' icon appears in the Firefox status bar. Click on it and Piggy Bank will import and parse the accompanying RDF data. You can search through it via Piggy Bank's built-in browser interface, or save it for later use."
Piggy Bank is a Java-powered Firefox extension developed by MIT's SIMILE project, a group that is working on a suite of Semantic Web applications and tools. Piggy Bank runs in the background while you browse the Web in your normal fashion. However, when you hit upon a page with an RDF link, a small 'data coin' icon appears in the Firefox status bar. Click on it and Piggy Bank will import and parse the accompanying RDF data. You can search through it via Piggy Bank's built-in browser interface, or save it for later use."
Saturday, June 25, 2005
XML.com: Introducing SKOS
XML.com: Introducing SKOS: "SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), recently introduced by the 
W3C, is a model for expressing knowledge organization systems in a machine-understandable way, within the framework of the Semantic Web. The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an RDF (Resource Description Framework) application. Using RDF allows data to be linked and merged with other RDF data by Semantic Web applications. SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes, including thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries, and other types of controlled vocabulary. This article will provide some examples for using SKOS and discuss the general principles of building such knowledge bases."
W3C, is a model for expressing knowledge organization systems in a machine-understandable way, within the framework of the Semantic Web. The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an RDF (Resource Description Framework) application. Using RDF allows data to be linked and merged with other RDF data by Semantic Web applications. SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes, including thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries, and other types of controlled vocabulary. This article will provide some examples for using SKOS and discuss the general principles of building such knowledge bases."
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
What is the Semantic Web about, Tim Berners-Lee?
Consortiuminfo.org Consortium Standards Bulletin- June 2005: "The goal of the Semantic Web initiative is to create a universal medium for the exchange of data where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. The Semantic Web is designed to smoothly interconnect personal information management, enterprise application integration, and the global sharing of commercial, scientific and cultural data. We are talking about data here, not human documents.
The Semantic Web is not about the meaning of English documents. It's not about marking up existing HTML documents to let a computer understand what they say. It's not about the artificial intelligence areas of machine learning or natural language understanding -- they use the word semantics with a different meaning.
It is about the data which currently is in relational databases, XML documents, spreadsheets, and proprietary format data files, and all of which would be useful to have access to as one huge database."
The Semantic Web is not about the meaning of English documents. It's not about marking up existing HTML documents to let a computer understand what they say. It's not about the artificial intelligence areas of machine learning or natural language understanding -- they use the word semantics with a different meaning.
It is about the data which currently is in relational databases, XML documents, spreadsheets, and proprietary format data files, and all of which would be useful to have access to as one huge database."
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web
Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web: "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries [Semantic Web Activity]. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) [RDF], which provides a simple data formalism for talking about things, their properties, inter-relationships, and categories (classes). For an overview of RDF, see [RDF Concepts]
This document describes in brief how to express the content and structure of a thesaurus, and metadata about a thesaurus, in RDF. Using RDF allows your data to be linked to and/or merged with other RDF data by semantic web applications. In practice, this means that data sources can be distributed across the web in a decentralised way, but still be meaningfully composed and integrated by applications, often in novel and unanticipated ways."
This document describes in brief how to express the content and structure of a thesaurus, and metadata about a thesaurus, in RDF. Using RDF allows your data to be linked to and/or merged with other RDF data by semantic web applications. In practice, this means that data sources can be distributed across the web in a decentralised way, but still be meaningfully composed and integrated by applications, often in novel and unanticipated ways."
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Gavilian Research Announces 2005 Metadata Solutions Report
CRM Today: Gavilian Research Announces 2005 Metadata Solutions Report: "Gavilan Research Associates, a provider of metadata management research and vendor/product comparisons, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an important metadata research study called the 2005 MetaData Solutions Report(tm).
This unique, innovative product survey was conducted in early 2005 and was targeted at enterprise software vendors who market themselves as 'metadata management solutions'. The Survey also targeted software companies who offer metadata products in the data warehousing, business intelligence, knowledge management, enterprise architecture or taxonomy/ontology markets. Each software vendor was sent the same comprehensive list of over 100 questions, which comprise all of the typical features, functions, and issues that Global 5000 companies face when organizing a metadata management environment."
This unique, innovative product survey was conducted in early 2005 and was targeted at enterprise software vendors who market themselves as 'metadata management solutions'. The Survey also targeted software companies who offer metadata products in the data warehousing, business intelligence, knowledge management, enterprise architecture or taxonomy/ontology markets. Each software vendor was sent the same comprehensive list of over 100 questions, which comprise all of the typical features, functions, and issues that Global 5000 companies face when organizing a metadata management environment."
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