Semantic Web

oeGOV Initiative Put Forward by TopQuadrant Aims to Improve Government Transparency Through Semantic Web Vocabularies

Here’s some news about a new semantic web initiative on ontologies for government that was announced today at the International Semantic Web Conference:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—October 27, 2009—TopQuadrant, the global leader in Semantic Web application development technology, today announced oeGOV, an initiative for creating an open, W3C Semantic Web standards-based set of ontology models to encourage and [...]

October 27th, 2009 | Leave a comment
Semantic Web

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to Carry Out Major Semantic Web Research

US Economic Stimulus and Recovery Plan Invests in Web 3.0 as a Technological Building Block for the Nation’s Future
—All semantic coding will be open source

The damTRENDS local area was shaken awake today with the news that the Tetherless World Constellation, based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has received economic stimulus funding from the US government [...]

October 1st, 2009 | 3 comments
Semantic Web

World Wide Web Consortium Announces New SKOS Standard to Leverage Power of Linked Data

And the news just keeps on coming today, on all fronts. Press release from W3C:

18 August 2009 — Today W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) announces a new standard that builds a bridge between the world of knowledge organization systems—including thesauri, classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and folksonomies—and the linked data community, bringing benefits to both. Libraries, [...]

August 18th, 2009 | Leave a comment

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