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Expert Schema.org Panel Finalized for #SemTechBiz San Francisco Program - Posted 4 days, 14 hours ago
Q: What do Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Yandex, the New York Times, and The Walt Disney Company have in common? A: schema.org On June 2, 2011, schema.org was launched with little fanfare, but it quickly received a lot of attention. Now, almost exactly one year later, we have assembled a ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Knowledge Graph Interview - Posted May 18, 2012
Google's Knowledge Graph has been the subject of lots of attention over the past few days since the announcement. And the focus of a lot of que... [semanticweb.com]

Schema.org Now Supports External Lists - Posted May 14, 2012
The schema.org official blog has announced support for enumerated lists. Adding this support allows developers using schema.org to use selected externally maintained vocabularies in their schema.org markup.... [AllTwitter]

Schema.org Now Supports External Lists - Posted May 14, 2012
The schema.org official blog has announced support for enumerated lists. Adding this support allows developers using schema.org to use selected externally maintained vocabularies in their schema.org markup.... [semanticweb.com]

Global Accessibility Awareness Day is Today - but where's the Sem Tech? - Posted May 9, 2012
Today, May 9, 2012 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). What started with a s... [semanticweb.com]

New Resource for Web Developers - Add Linked Data to HTML with RDFa.info - Posted May 9, 2012
For Web Developers who have been looking for resources devoted to adding Linked Data to HTML, there's a new site available today: RDFa.info. Visitors are greeted with the following headline, "... [semanticweb.com]

RDF Working Group Proposes 3 Recommendations - Posted May 9, 2012
The W3C reports that three RDFa specifications have been proposed as recommendations. The article states, "The RDF Web Applications Working ... [semanticweb.com]

New Public Working Draft of Provenance Data Model - Posted May 7, 2012
Luc Moreau of the W3C reports, "The Pro... [semanticweb.com]

Financial Services Industry Sees Operational Value in FIBO - Posted April 23, 2012
Back in March, The Semantic Web Blog wrote an article about FIBO, the Financial Industry Business Ontology that's on its way to being an Object Management Group series of standards. There, we explored its value as an open semantic stan... [semanticweb.com]

Linked Data on the Web Workshop at WWW 2012 - Posted April 19, 2012
This year was the 5th version of the Linked Data on the Web Workshop co-located at the World Wide Web Conference going on in Lyon, France. At this workshop, seven issues caught m... [AllTwitter]

Linked Data on the Web Workshop at WWW 2012 - Posted April 19, 2012
This year was the 5th version of the Linked Data on the Web Workshop co-located at the World Wide Web Conference going on in Lyon, France. At this workshop, seven issues caught m... [semanticweb.com]

Government Linked Data Group Publishes 4 Working Drafts - Posted April 11, 2012
The W3C Government Linked Data Working Group has published four public working draft... [semanticweb.com]

A Fundamental Linked Data Debate - Posted April 4, 2012
There is a fierce debate going on in the world of the Semantic Web and Linked Data, the question being is it of fundamental importance to realising the benefits of the technology or are they just dancing on the head of a pin. The core debate revolves... [semanticweb.com]

Announcement of Linked Data Basic Profile 1.0 Submission - Posted April 3, 2012
In December 2011, the World Wide Web Consortium held "The Linked Enterprise Data Patterns workshop," and that workshop ended with unanimous agreement that "the W3C should create a Working Group to produce a W3C Recommendation which defines a Linked Data Platform." In response to that call, SemanticWeb.com has joined experts from fellow... [semanticweb.com]

Smart Ad Sophistication Lacking in News Industry, To Its Peril - Posted March 22, 2012
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media 2012 report was just published, and among the findings is that efforts by most top news sites to monetize the web in their own right are still limited. Few news companies, it reports, "have made much progress... [semanticweb.com]

Linked Data: Moving Towards Consumption - Posted March 21, 2012
Earlier this month 16 out of 42 papers were accepted for the upcoming Linked Data on the Web (LDOW) 2012 Workshop in Lyon, France in April. What might be discerned from the tenor of the submissions is something of a shift in focus in the Linked Data space, according to workshop chair... [semanticweb.com]

Global Linked Data Working Group Working Toward Interoperable Government - Posted March 14, 2012
Phil Archer recently commented on the work of the Global Linked Data Working Group: "Its charter is divided in two parts. First it is defining a set of Best Practices in this area -- guidelines designed to make it easier for the public... [semanticweb.com]

New Workshop: Using Open Data - Posted March 13, 2012
The W3C has announced a new workshop, Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism. According to the article, "For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data,... [semanticweb.com]

W3C HTML Data Task Force Publishes 2 Notes - Posted March 13, 2012
The W3C HTML Data Task Force has published two notes, the HTML Data Guide and Microdata to RDF. According to the abstract of the former, " This guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data use it well. With several syntaxes and vocabul... [semanticweb.com]

What W3C's R2RML and Direct Mapping Mean to Enterprise Data - Posted March 1, 2012
I'm very happy to announce that the World Wide Web Consortium's RDB2RDF Working Group, in which I participate as an Invited Expert, has published two Candidate Recommendations: R2RML: ... [semanticweb.com]

RDB2RDF Specifications Published by W3C - Posted February 27, 2012
The W3C recently announced, "The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Candidate Recommendation documents that help to bring relational database information to the Semantic Web: ... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Opens New Office in Russia - Posted February 21, 2012
The W3C has opened a new office in Russia. According to the official release, "The Office is hosted by the National Research University 'Higher School of Economics' (HSE), founded in 199... [semanticweb.com]

W3C's Provenance Data Model - Posted February 13, 2012
Luc Moreau recently reported on the current status of the W3C's Provenance Data Model. He wrote, "The Provenance Working Group began its activities with a charter naming some... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Launches Nu Markup Validation Service - Posted February 13, 2012
The W3C has announced the launch of the Nu Markup Validation Service, "a non-DTD-based markup validator being made available to the community in parallel to the existing DTD-based validator.w3.org W3C markup valid... [semanticweb.com]

New RDFa Last Call Working Drafts - Posted February 6, 2012
The W3C RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three new last call working drafts: RDFa Core 1.1, ... [semanticweb.com]

Introduction to: RDFa - Posted February 6, 2012
Simply put, RDFa is another syntax for RDF. The interesting aspect of RDFa is that it is embedded in HTML. This means that you can state what things on your HTML page actually mean. For example, you can specify... [semanticweb.com]

Discovering French Monuments, With the Help of the Semantic Web - Posted December 23, 2011
An app to discover 44,000 French monuments. Completed in four days. By one person. Without coding.   Head over to this demo from Antidot, publisher of Information Factory and Antidot Finder Suite software, and you can see the search mash-up it says wa... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Tech in 2011: The Year In Highlights - Posted December 21, 2011
To accompany our recent podcast looking back on 2011, we've accumulated some additional perspectives from thought leaders in the next-wave Web space on the year that's quickly passing us by. Some highlights follow. You'll see respondents hit on some common themes thro... [AllTwitter]

Semantic Tech in 2011: The Year In Highlights - Posted December 21, 2011
To accompany our recent podcast looking back on 2011, we've accumulated some additional perspectives from thought leaders in the next-wave Web space on the year that's quickly passing us by. Some highlights follow. You'll see respondents hit on some common themes thro... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Publishes New Working Draft of the PROV Data Model - Posted December 20, 2011
The W3C Provenance Working Group recently announced that the group "has published a new Working Draft of The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syn... [semanticweb.com]

The Semantic Link - Episode 12, December 2011 (with Polls!) - Posted December 15, 2011
This month, we present the twelfth Podcast episode in our monthly series of discussions with Semantic Web thought leaders from around the globe. In this episode, we reflect on the last year and make som... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook's Timeline Launches - Posted December 15, 2011
Facebook today posted that users now officially can upgrade their profiles to its Facebook Timeline by heading here. Timeline, as Mark Zuckerberg described in September, is ... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Call for Review on Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 - Posted December 6, 2011
Ivan Herman announced on the W3C blog: "The W3C Media Annotations Working ... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Call for Review on Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 - Posted December 6, 2011
Ivan Herman announced on the W3C blog: "The W3C Media Annotations Working ... [AllTwitter]

How the Oil Industry is Utilizing Semantic Web Technology - Posted December 1, 2011
Ian Jacobs recently interviewed retiring Chevron executive Roger Cutler regarding Chevron's use of semantic web technologies. Cutler stated, "In one project we sought to exploit the technical strengths of Semanti... [semanticweb.com]

RDFa 1.1 Distiller & JSON-LD - Posted November 29, 2011
Ivan Herman recently posted a demonstration on the W3C blog of a new feature that he has added to the RDFa 1.1 Distiller. Herman writes, "Up to today, the possib... [semanticweb.com]

W3C SPARQL Working Group Publishes 2 New Working Drafts - Posted November 22, 2011
The W3C SPARQL Working Group has published two new working drafts. The first is a working draft of SPARQL 1.1 Overview: "This document... [semanticweb.com]

A Look Into Linking Government Data - Posted November 18, 2011
Due out next month from Springer Publishing is Linking Government Data, a book that highlights some of the leading-edge applications of Linked Data to problems of government operations and transparency. David Wood, CTO of ... [AllTwitter]

A Look Into Linking Government Data - Posted November 18, 2011
Due out next month from Springer Publishing is Linking Government Data, a book that highlights some of the leading-edge applications of Linked Data to problems of government operations and transparency. David Wood, CTO of ... [semanticweb.com]

BREAKING: Schema.org announces intent to support RDFa Lite! - Posted November 11, 2011
Last month, we reported on the new RDFa 1.1 Lite proposal by Ben Adida. In our recent podcast... [AllTwitter]

RDF & Dilbert - Posted November 8, 2011
A new article by Dan Brickley looks at RDF through the lens of beloved comic strip, Dilbert. The article begins, "How can we package, manage, mix and merge graph datasets that come from diffe... [AllTwitter]

RDF & Dilbert - Posted November 8, 2011
A new article by Dan Brickley looks at RDF through the lens of beloved comic strip, Dilbert. The article begins, "How can we package, manage, mix and merge graph datasets that come from diffe... [semanticweb.com]

Library Linked Data Incubator Group Publishes Final Report - Posted October 27, 2011
The W3C has announced the publication of the Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report; Use Cases; and Datase... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Web Death Match at ISWC - Posted October 27, 2011
[Editor's Note: This week, Juan Sequeda is reporting in from the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany]   The Semantic Web Death M... [semanticweb.com]

PaySwarm - Give Someone $0.02 for Their Two Cents (Part I) - Posted October 11, 2011
Manu Sporny, Founder/CEO of Digital Bazaar, Inc., sat down with SemanticWeb.com to discuss Payswarm, a new standard that he is working on through a W3C Community Group. This article is Part 1 of 2.   ... [AllTwitter]

Catching Up With the W3C And Its Focus On the Enterprise - Posted October 6, 2011
Underway at the W3C are some major Semantic Web efforts that can have a big impact on the enterprise. One of these is about mapping relational databases to RDF. The RDB2RDF Working Group late last month issued a ... [AllTwitter]

Catching Up With the W3C And Its Focus On the Enterprise - Posted October 6, 2011
Underway at the W3C are some major Semantic Web efforts that can have a big impact on the enterprise. One of these is about mapping relational databases to RDF. The RDB2RDF Working Group late last month issued a ... [semanticweb.com]

RDB2RDF Working Group Publishes 2 Last Call Working Drafts - Posted September 22, 2011
Two last call working drafts have been published by the W3C's RDB2RDF Working Group regarding bringing relational database information to the semantic web. The two papers are entitled R2RML: RDB to ... [semanticweb.com]

Schema.org Workshop - A Path Forward - Posted September 22, 2011
[caption id="attachment_23388" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="schema.org Leadership Panel; L-to-R: Michael O'Connor (Microsoft), John Giannandrea (Google), Charlie Jiang (Microsoft), Kavi Goel (Google), R.V. Guha (Google), Steve MacBeth (Microsoft), Gaurav Mishra (Yahoo), Peter Mika (Yahoo) "]... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Technologies: Common, Coherent & Standard - Posted September 14, 2011
Lee Feigenbaum recently wrote an article on the value of semantic web technologies, noting in particular the value of making semantic technologies common, coherent, and standard. Feigenbaum writes, "Semantic Web technologies are broadly applicable to... [semanticweb.com]

The Semantic Link - Episode 10, September 2011 - Posted September 12, 2011
On Friday, September 9, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for th... [semanticweb.com]

A Harmonious Existence for RDFa and Microdata? - Posted August 25, 2011
Jeni Tennison has added to her discussion of microdata and RDFa with a new post on how the two might live in harmony. Tennison writes, "One of the options that the TAG put forward when it asked the W3C to... [semanticweb.com]

Introducing W3C Community Groups & Business Groups - Posted August 17, 2011
In addition to the new Semantic News Community Group, the W3C has launched a full range of community and business groups "so that developers, designers, and anyone passionate about the Web has a place to ... [AllTwitter]

Revelytix Provides Early Access to Spinner and Rex - Posted August 15, 2011
Emergent analytics company Revelytix ... [AllTwitter]

Revelytix Provides Early Access to Spinner and Rex - Posted August 15, 2011
Emergent analytics company Revelytix ... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Publishes First Working Draft of Turtle - Posted August 15, 2011
In case you missed it, "The RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Turtle ("Terse RDF Triple Language"). Turtle has been in use by the Semantic Web com... [semanticweb.com]

Upcoming Webcast: "SPARQL Queries, SPARQL Technology" with Bob DuCharme - Posted August 9, 2011
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2011 Time: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT Cost: FREE ... [semanticweb.com]

New W3C Semantic News Community Group - Posted August 8, 2011
The W3C has formed a new online community group specifically for semantic web news. According to the homepage, "The Semantic News Community Group is a forum for exploring the intersection of ... [semanticweb.com]

PoolParty Releases Linked Data Plugin for Wordpress - Posted August 2, 2011
PoolParty, a sponsor of the upcoming SemTechBiz UK conference, has released a free linked data ... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic or Semantic: Two Definitions of the Same Term - Posted July 25, 2011
A new article clarifies the two meanings of the word "semantic" as it applies to HTML5. The author writes, "At DrupalCon, questions always come up ab... [AllTwitter]

TSO Releases the Flint SPARQL Editor - Posted July 19, 2011
A new article reports that "TSO, the company behind publishing solutions for the UK public sector, has announced the release into the developer community of what is believed to be the most feature-rich web-based SPARQ... [semanticweb.com]

Time For Another Look at WebID? - Posted July 18, 2011
Looked into WebID lately? Maybe it's time. The open standard for identity and login seems to be gaining more momentum following the spring W3C Workshop on Identity in the Browser. That's when W3C WebID Incubator chair Henry Story presented a position case on the standard; that was followed up by the... [semanticweb.com]

Time For Another Look at WebID? - Posted July 18, 2011
Looked into WebID lately? Maybe it's time. The open standard for identity and login seems to be gaining more momentum following the spring W3C Workshop on Identity in the Browser. That's when W3C WebID Incubator chair Henry Story presented a position case on the standard; that was followed up by the... [AllTwitter]

SPIN Versus RIF - Posted July 7, 2011
The TopQuadrant blog recently compared Spin with RIF. According to the post, "Since SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation) aka SPARQL Rules became... [semanticweb.com]

Data Integration: What's The Way You Like It? - Posted June 13, 2011
Ask a group of Semantic Web professionals where the data should live when you're doing data integration projects - which is just what Cambridge Semantics VP Lee Feigenbaum, acting in his capacity as co-chair of the W3C's SPARQL Working Group, did at a panel at last w... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Launches Government Linked Data Working Group - Posted June 8, 2011
The W3C has launched a new Government Linked Data Working Group. According to the W3C, the mission of the new group "is to provide standards and other information which help governments around the world publish their data as effective and us... [semanticweb.com]

Guided Tour of The Semantic Web At SemTech 2011 - Posted June 7, 2011
An informal raise-your-hand survey of attendees at the SemTech conference in San Francisco this week revealed that a good number of attendees were here for the first time. And one of the early morning tutorials Monday provided a perfect opportunity for many of them to explore the Semantic Web in... [semanticweb.com]

The Semantics of NASA's POPS Project - Posted May 31, 2011
The W3C recently interviewed Jeanne Holm, Chief Knowledge Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech. Holm also leads the Knowledge Management team at ... [semanticweb.com]

Bob DuCharme Shows Us How to Improve Taxonomy Management with SKOS - Posted May 16, 2011
A new paper has been release by IBM entitled "Improve your taxonomy management using the W3C SKOS standard." The paper is written by Bob DuCharme, a solutions a... [AllTwitter]

On various RDF API-s... - Posted May 10, 2011
(By Ivan Herman and Manu Sporny) [EDITOR'S NOTE: This guest post, by Ivan Herman and Manu Sporny, was originally published on w3.org and appears here courtesy of the W3C and the authors of the article. SemanticWeb.com is a member of the W3C.] ... [10,000 Words]

Dydra Envisions RDF As A Cloud Service - Posted May 9, 2011
The cloud cometh to the Semantic Web in many ways, and one of the newest is in the form of Dydra, an RDF cloud service that's aiming to take the pain out of dealing with your semantic data. The product of Datagraph Inc., one of the New Orleans-based startups with seed... [semanticweb.com]

The W3C Publishes Working Drafts on RDFa - Posted April 21, 2011
We recently reported on the W3C's progress with regards to RDF2. Since then the W3C has also announced that "The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published a new Working Draft of the RDFa API. This document specifies an API to access the RDF data embedd... [semanticweb.com]

RDF 2 or RDF 1.0.1? - Posted April 18, 2011
The RDF2 Working Group met face-to-face in Amsterdam last week, and Guus Schreiber, the chair of the group, has just posted about some of the highlights. Schreiber said, "The results of the [Working Group] are not likely to shake the Web world, but will hopefully contribute significantly to ... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Publishes Two Last Call Working Drafts on RDFa - Posted April 4, 2011
The W3C RDFa Working Group "has published Last Call Working Drafts of RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1." The release states, "The current Web is primarily made up of a... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Announces its Last Call Working Draft of Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 - Posted March 9, 2011
The W3C announced yesterday that it has published a last call working draft of "Ontology for Media Resources 1.0." The draft was published by the Media Annotations Working Group. Comments ar... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Publishes a Note on the VoID Vocabulary - Posted March 7, 2011
[Update: Richard Cyganiak offers this interesting look at the process of creating VoID, "Creating an RDF vocabulary: Lessons learned"] W3C recently published "Describing ... [AllTwitter]

W3C Publishes a Note on the VoID Vocabulary - Posted March 7, 2011
[Update: Richard Cyganiak offers this interesting look at the process of creating VoID, "Creating an RDF vocabulary: Lessons learned"] W3C recently published "Describing ... [semanticweb.com]

Enterprises Want to Take To Semantic Web To Polish Data Assets -- Who's Going to Help Them Succeed? - Posted January 10, 2011
Photo Courtesy: FlickR/elward-photography There seems to be growing sentiment that 2011 is the year the Semantic Web really, truly happens (see ... [AllTwitter]

POWDER Test Suite Note Published - Posted September 14, 2009
The W3C Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group has published a W3C Group Note of Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite. This document presents test cases for the POWDER technology, which helps to build a Web of trust and make it possible to discover relevant, quality content... [semanticweb.com]

POWDER is a W3C Recommendation - Posted September 1, 2009
POWDER, the Protocol for Web Description Resources, is the latest Semantic Web technology to reach W3C Recommendation status. Taking a Semantic Web/linked data view, POWDER allows you to associate predicates and objects with multiple subjects, all with explicit provenance. Data is usually encoded in XML with an associated GRDDL transform that... [semanticweb.com]

Introducing OWL 2: A Panel and Community Discussion - SemTech 2009 Audio - Posted July 6, 2009
Michael A Smith, Clark & Parsia LLC Deborah L. McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium Zhe Wu, Oracle Corp. Ian Horrocks, Oxford University OWL 2 is the first major revision of OWL, a key semantic technology standard, and is on-track to become a W3C standard in late Spring 2009, just in... [semanticweb.com]

OWL 2 is now a Candidate Recommendation - Posted June 15, 2009
The OWL Working Group at W3C invites implementation of its OWL 2 Web Ontology Language. OWL 2 is a compatible extension to OWL 1, providing ... [semanticweb.com]

W3C Issues First Mobile Web Standards - Posted July 29, 2008
Need proof that accessing the Web on mobile devices is being taken seriously? How's this: The W3C has released its first set of standards designed to make it easier to browse the Web on a mobile phone. The Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 includes a series of guidelines developed by the W3C's... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]