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Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS), the open source endeavor to increase speed of adoption for semantic web technologies, is planning its largest workshop to date. Over 100 participants are expected in Paris July 5-6 for the free event.

If you regularly run into words like "ontology" and acronyms like OWL, then you'll be pleased to hear that Protege 4.0 (news, site) has been released.

Those who aren't deeply involved in the semantic web may not quite run to learn more, but semantic web technologies are coming faster than you think. It's a good idea to pay at least some attention.

The World Wide Web Consortium's OWL (Web Ontology Language) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview." Go ahead. Grab a dictionary. We'll wait.

This document is the first in an exciting thirteen volume escapade through the syntaxes, sub-languages, along with other details behind OWL 2 and its differences from OWL 1.

Click over to your preferred search engine and type “global warming,” hit enter and wait for the faint tang of smoke curling up from your processor. What’s that? Six billion hits! Let’s get sophisticated and try “global warming” and “Al Gore”. Oh, wait. Google just sent you an email threatening legal action if  you keep instigating "insanely vague" searches.

If you’re a scientist, attempting environmental studies with a focus on atmospheric phenomena, and you type "red tide," it doesn’t really help to see links to redheads.com. In fact, it’s a distraction you don’t need.

This is when you may need Noesis, a new semantic web search engine developed at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a promising addition to scientific research.

As the usage of XML as the primary representation format within a content management system proliferates, the discussion revolves around how to transform said XML into a human readable format.

And what about the machines? Who is looking out for them when it comes time to consume data in a custom XML format?

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