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03.08.10

While doing preparation for some upcoming talks, I noticed that the FOAF specification had been updated to version 0.97 in January. It had been quite some time since there had been activity on this vocabulary so it is good to see some love shown to it. According to the specification, some of the new changes include:

02.21.10

Could Google Become the Semantic Web?

"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.

03.04.10

Wash DC - Combining Public and Proprietary Data with Semantic Technology

The Washington Semantic Web Meetup

Join us at TopQuadrant for a meetup session on combining public and proprietary data using semantic technologies. Bob Ducharme will be the speaker for this event.

If you are able to come early, TopQuadrant will be having an open house before the event, from 1-5 PM. (See TopQuadrant open house for more information).

03.01.10

Altova Adds DB2/400 Support to XML Development Tools - IT Jungle

02.28.10

Linked Data API introduced at London Meetup

Last week, the Second Linked Data Meetup London was held at the University of London Union. There were several compelling presentations discussed on Twitter including the BBC's use of Linked Data for their Wildlife Finder app.

12.22.09

Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology – Part II

In the final installment of this two-part series, Dean Allemang and Scott Henninger look into how the insights about semantic web education have an impact on the adoption of semantic web technologies.

12.01.09

Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

In part I of this two-part series, Dean Allemang & Scott Henninger draw on years of teaching TopQuadrant's introduction course on the Semantic Web to make some observations on teaching Semantic Web concepts to a wide variety of students.

10.27.09

oeGOV Initiative Aims to Improve Government Transparency through Semantic Web Vocabularies - Press release

TopQuadrant Publishes Government Ontologies to Create Standard Data Exchange

10.02.09

RIF is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

The W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published six Candidate Recommendations. Together, they allow systems using a variety of rule languages and rule-based technologies to interoperate with each other and with Semantic Web technologies.

Three of the drafts define XML formats with formal semantics for storing and transmitting rules:

09.23.09

Digital Democracy - MIT News