Semantic News & Articles

One of the Worldwide Web Consortium's (news, site) main responsibilities is ensuring that standards in web markup are followed. In the wake of stakeholder discussions, such as the recently concluded working group discussions on multilingual web content practices, the organization has released its updated Internationalization Checker.

IBM’s Watson impressed us on Jeopardy in February. But can Watson cut it in a global world?

NetBase recently announced that it secured Series C venture capital funding. The funds come from Altos Ventures and Thomvest Ventures, Inc., and will be used to fuel continued expansion.

Enterprise behemoth Oracle (news, site) recently announced its support for OpenCalais (news, site), a semantic Web service from Thomson Reuters. The native support comes within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g, giving both users and developers direct access to OpenCalais’ natural language processing capabilities.

Benefits of the new development include enabling users to extract rich semantic metadata about people, places, companies and events.

Over the years, the Drupal (news, site) web content management system has had the same problem as any other growing software project: deciding which features are important enough to belong in the core of the software.

One such candidate feature -- which the Drupal team has discussed since 2004 -- is that of enabling CMS administrators to define custom content types, or fields for the system.

The Content Construction Kit (CCK), an add-on module for Drupal, has handily taken care of this need for years. In Drupal 7, it will no longer be needed. But even more, we'll be getting some tasty semantic web features as part of the changes.

Welcome to Neighborhood America.

Named the software industry’s “Best Social Networking Solution” for enterprises courtesy the CODiE Awards, Neighborhood America has announced a strategic partnership with Expert System, a leading semantic software provider. Together, the companies will offer a semantic method to monitor and analyze consumer sentiment online, as well as increase advertisement revenue through semantic content matching.

Before giving up on all alternative search engines, realize that Hakia is offering a new approach on how it delivers results. This approach is focused on delivering not only relevant search results, but delivering “credible search results” as well. It just might be worth checking out.

SiberLogic, a provider of XML content management technology, just released an integration of SiberSafe DITA Edition along with Adobe’s FrameMaker 7.2 Application Pack for DITA.

The solution was unveiled last Monday at the Society for Technical Communication’s 54th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN.