"Describing the Semantic Web as a “Web of data” is not too helpful for most people, I have learned."  There’s a lot of talk about it, but for most Web users, the idea described in 1981 by Tim Berners-Lee means little.

The new W3C Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF) standard will be featured at RuleML 2009 (see http://2009.ruleml.org), co-located with the Business Rules Forum in November 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. There will be a tutorial about RIF by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG/IBM, co-chair of the RIF WG) and a keynote by Sandro Hawke (W3C staff representative on the RIF WG) "Bringing Order to Chaos: RIF as the New Standard for Rule Interchange".

Zürich Semantic Web Meetup Unser 1. Meetup ist dem Erfahrungsaustausch mit Morton Swimmer gewidmet. Da Morton über 6 Jahre in Zürich lebte (und im IBM Forschungszentrum in Rüschlikon arbeitete) wird er den Vortrag auf Deutsch halten.

IBM today announced the launch of a new suite of healthcare information sharing and analytics technologies at the Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which combines the strengths of TCM and Modern Western Medicine (MWM). The system incorporates IBM's advanced semantics technology which allows it to understand and analyze the scientific meaning of specific terms even when other terms are used in patient records.