Semantic Technology News & Articles

Web 3.0 is supposed to usher in the widespread use of semantic technologies. However, few web content management (WCM) and enterprise content management (ECM) platforms currently support the tools. A recent case study describes an integration between EPiServer 6 (news, site) and Smartlogic's Semaphore, which provides a model for other organizations that need to introduce semantic capabilities into their WCM and ECM platforms.

Looking at content analytics through the lens of business strategists, end users and research scientists, Jeff Fried, the CTO at BA-Insight presented us with What Business Innovators Need to Know about Content Analytics.

Last year Google's Rich Snippets launch initiated a big semantic web push. The snippets enable website managers to show richer search results, making it easier to determine content within a particular page before you've even visited it. The initiative was reviewed at this year's Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, revealing usage statistics that will likely influence the future of Google Search. 

The rumors are true! Facebook is wading in the search engine pool. That is, the platform is now plugging  open graph-enabled pages into Facebook search results.

In one week in April, with three events in one city, the Web took a leap towards a new future -- a semantic future. The Semantic Technology conference next week will show information professionals just how to take hold of this future.

The next time those in the academic world suggest any miscommunication is an issue of semantics, they might not be wrong.

Elsevier, the publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has acquired Collexis, a developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software.
 

German company, Ontoprise launches the latest version of its open source Semantic MediaWiki+ to help improve a company's knowledgebase and make finding information and retrieval easier.

A new set of semantic tools that enables users to track, monitor and manage content on websites has just been unveiled by UK-based website quality monitoring solutions provider Magus.

Particularly useful for companies concerned about compliance monitoring, ActiveStandards Aboutness Reports (ASAR) gives enterprises, especially those with multiple sites, a significantly enhanced view of website content.

While there are many Enterprise Content Management Systems that include a ‘birds-eye’ view of content, Magus’s new tool – powered by the Thomson Reuters OpenCalais service – can tell if your content is up-to-date, on-topic, on-brand and search optimized.

As an added attraction it comes as a SaaS.

The web, much like our global environment, is in a state of flux. The transition to what is being called the semantic web (or web 3.0) is happening and it’s happening while you read this. Therefore it is critical for businesses to understand the transition to enable them to plan appropriately for the future.

With an understanding of how crucial it is for businesses to have access to and understand the changes happening on the web right now, Dow Jones brings you a three part free webinar series called “Discovering the Semantic Web” starting on Thursday, February 12, 2009. The webinar is scheduled for an hour.