The W3C SPARQL Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths, which
defines a more succinct way to write parts of basic graph patterns and also extend matching of triple pattern to arbitrary length paths. The group also published six updates, namely:
The W3C Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) has published new or updated a number of RDF vocabularies that are part of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL). These working drafts include:
The Semantic Web is an ideal candidate to become the fabric for Augmented Reality applications in the near future. The global availability of HTTP and the flexibility of RDF, the foundational framework for the Semantic Web, make it a perfect match for dis
The W3C SPARQL Working
Group published the First Public Working Draft of six SPARQL 1.1
specifications. SPARQL is the query language of the Semantic Web, and
SPARQL 1.1 enhances the SPARQL landscape with:
Enabling Data Independence for Government Transparency
by Ralph Hodgson, CTO, TopQuadrant, Inc.
Open Government has become a popular theme, both in the U.S. and other countries. With “Transparency” gaining momentum, increasing categories and amounts of government data are becoming available on the web. In the U.S., an impetus for this was Barrack Obama’s memorandum to the heads of Executive Departments and Agencies. This included the following statement:
CORALVILLE, IA, June 16, 2009 --Structured Dynamics today unveiled twin products that will bring exciting new structured data capabilities to the popular Drupal open source content management system. The first of these open source products is structWSF, a platform-independent Web services framework for RDF. It is paired with the conStruct module that links Drupal to this framework while leveraging existing Drupal capabilities.
CORALVILLE, IA, June 16, 2009 -- As part of a broader set of product announcements, Structured Dynamics today unveiled openstructs.org, an education and distribution site dedicated to open source software for converting, managing, viewing and manipulating structured data. Structured data can represent any existing data struct from the simplest attribute-value pair formats to fully specified relational database schema.
Glue is a browser-based social network that connects friends around things they visit online. Glue appears on popular sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Yahoo! Finance, Wine.com, Citysearch and many more, revealing friends and other Glue users interested in the same thing around the web.
We have witnessed over the years the progression from basic machine languages, to higher-level procedural languages, and then to object-oriented languages. Each advance introduced dramatic improvements in software capabilities that resulted in major leaps forward in fulfilling information technology requirements.
We are again on the verge of another major advance in the evolution of software technology that may bring great value to organizations and other information technology beneficiaries.
