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Semantic Project Update: Interactive Knowledge Stack

The Interactive Knowledge Stack, or IKS, has reached its second year. In that time they've made promising headway, but like the rest of the semantic web, they're really just getting started.

UK Gov Surpasses US Gov in Number of Public, Open Data Sets

ukflag-leader.jpgIn the never-ending argument over which country is Number 1, the UK has just surpassed the US in one particular area: that of open data.

Call for Feedback on Drupal 7 Semantic Web Impementation

DrupalWhen Dries Buytaert founded Drupal (news, site), he intended it in part to be a platform where he could test out and play with new technologies. Drupal, for example, was an early adopter of RSS. With the pending release of Drupal 7, this goal isn't changing, and the Drupal 7 team is asking for feedback from the "pedantic web community" on how its implemented some new features.

2009 Retrospective, Food for Thought and Seasons Greetings

Here we are on the brink of the night before Christmas, if that's your kind of thing. And this time we're indulging ourselves by shuttering the shop from now until the first Monday of 2010.

For us it's reflection season. In that spirit we've cooked up a concise retrospective of 2009, including items our readers took particular interest in, and some things we found generally interesting.

Without further ado we leave you to some holiday reading. May the end of 2009 treat you and yours well.

Enterprise CMS Highlights

It was largely business as usual in the ECM sector this year, with a few notable exceptions.

Beyond acquisition activity, open source players stepped up their game and look to be positioned well for some 2010 combat.

SharePoint in the Limelight (still)

Web CMS a Super Dynamic Space

Perhaps it's been web content management that has seen the most change this year:

Standards Abound, Gain Ground

The subject of standards was never far from anyone's mind:

Enterprise 2.0

The adoption of social computing in the enterprise was big news this year.

Industry Themes: Search, Speed, Analytics, Semantics, Real-time, Open Source and more...

You can't go through a year without major industry shifts, 2009 had its share:

That's it for the holiday brain food fun. Thanks for supporting us in 2009 -- we'll see you right back here in January.

RDF Automation Ushering in Semantic Web

Rensselaer-leader.jpgResearchers with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have thrown themselves head over heels into the semantic web. At this year's 8th International Semantic Web Conference, they presented a paper (download the PDF) focused on the problem of automatically generating the metadata that many semantic web functionalities rely on. 

Talking about RDF closures can cause eyelids to flutter, but the RPI folks aren't living in some theoretical world. They've been digging hard into large, public data sets and have learned some important lessons about making data more useful. Come join us for a closer look.

A Sneak Peak at HTML 5.0

HTML 5 (news, site) is the fifth major revision of the web's core language and it has been designed to support the rapidly changing Web 2.0 world we live in today. Let's take a little tour of what this latest version means for web development.

The Semantic Web Moves Forward: HTML+RDFa Draft Published

Without complex decision trees helping computers determine what pieces of text relate to what, it's nearly impossible to make use of the wealth of data available on the web.

In the case where you're only interested in people reading your pages, that's fine. But what if you want other sites to access and use the data you're offering with a full understanding of the context? We're one step closer to a standard that defines exactly how to make this clear.

For months now we've been talking about RDFa and how this proposed standard leads toward the semantic web. Recently, this vision took a step further toward reality.

ocPortal 4.2 Adds New Social Networking Features, Support for Semantic Web

ocportal_logo_2009.jpgocPortal (news, site) has been incubating version 4.2 of its Web CMS for some nine months now. Finally out, what delights does it offer?

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Orchestr8 Releases New Structured Data Mining Technology

Orchestr8 Releases New Structured Data Mining Technology Orchestr8, developers of semantic tagging and text mining software, announced a new technology to complement their content analysis service, AlchemyAPI.

Dubbed Visual Constraints, the company claims the tool enables the extraction of structured data (such as product info, pricing, descriptions, etc.) from any web page.

Improving Access to Government Data on the Web

On September 4th, the President took another important step toward a more open and transparent government by announcing a new policy to voluntarily disclose White House visitor access records.

Aside from a small group of appointments that cannot be disclosed because of their necessarily confidential nature, the record of every visitor who comes to the White House for an appointment, a tour or to conduct business will be released. As historic as the President’s announcement is, it is also a good illustration of what is missing from the administration’s technology infrastructure plan -- a coordinated approach to providing data standards.

W3C Tries to Unify Knowledge with New SKOS Standard

w3c_logo_2009.jpgLast week the World Wide Web Consortium (news, site) announced a new standard that connects simple knowledge organization systems (SKOS) like classifications, taxonomies, folksonomies, etc. with the linked data community.

The bridge allows SKOS to assist in managing large collections of data in the form of books, historical artifacts, news reports, blog entries, etc.

Optimizing Your Website for Microsoft Bing

As many a blog entry will reiterate, as of late, there’s been a good amount of buzz around the launch of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.

Moreover, there’s been a decent amount of speculation on what the growing popularity of Bing -- along with their recent agreement with Yahoo -- will mean in regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices.  As with any buzz in the online world, many marketing blogs, including Forrester, began to postulate what effect Bing will have on SEO, even before it officially launched.

Linked Data on the Web - Becoming Reality in the UK

Linked Data on the Web - Becoming Reality in the UKThese days the UK government seems unusually savvy when it comes to technology, open source and open standards. Now they've embraced another open movement, that of open data. And they've appointed Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, to help.

Edit OWL 2.0 Ontologies With New Protege 4.0

protege-leader.jpg 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.

Drupal 7 CMS to Add Content Type Extensibility for Dummies

Drupal Web Content Management SystemOver 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.

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