Semantic Technologies News & Articles

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.

Web 3.0, the semantic web, is gaining in both popularity and adoption, but the pace isn’t rapid enough for some. With the recent move by web standards organization, W3C, to launch a RDF Working Group that will enhance the resource description framework (RDF), the standard may become more attractive to the masses.

Nuxeo (news, site) added two new semantic modules to its recently released Nuxeo Marketplace. Both the Semantic Linking and Auto-Categorization packages use semantic technologies.

Web 2.0 is so yesterday. Perhaps, that’s an overstatement, but Web 3.0, the semantic web, is rapidly moving beyond the academic laboratory to real-world utilization. Now the W3C RDB2RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF.” This work is a major step towards making the astounding amount of data stored in relational databases more easily available to the semantic web.

Enterprise knowledge workers are suffering from email overload, and none too soon intelligence solutions like Kwaga are coming to the rescue. Mixing smart semantic processing with your own rules and preferences the company aims to take the pain out of your inbox.

Kwaga -- Semantic Email Smarts Combined With Prioritized VIP Communications.

In only two years, the Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) (news, site) project has released its first working demo of a semantic knowledge engine and is making quite a stir, as early adopters begin integrating it into their content management software. Recent events have also seen part of the results acceptance as an Apache incubator projected named Stanbol. Here's an update.

This Tuesday, hundreds of content strategists gathered at the Smart Content Conference to explore business challenges, technologies and solutions focused on content analytics. From learning about smart content to understanding the ways that content analytics can be used to innovate marketing and business strategies, the conference inspired conversations and ideas.