Congress

09.01.09

oeGOV: Open Government through Semantic Web Technologies

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:

08.07.09

The Library of Congress Talks Digital Initiatives | Stacking the Tech – Library Journal

06.15.09

W3C Celebrates Semantic Web Progress at SemTech 2009

Active Linked Data Community, eGovernment, and Industry Showing Support for Growing W3C Standards Stack

04.05.09

Semantic Web Meetup at the New York Public Library

Semantic Web Meetups > The New York Semantic Web Meetup Group Semantic Web related activities at the Digital Experience Group of the New York Public Library Mark A. Matienzo Applications Developer in the Digital Experience Group of the New York Public Library Library of Congress Subject Heading New York, NY 10016 – USA Thursday, May 7 at 6:15 PM Attending: 29

03.09.09

David Wood – O’Reilly Media Joins the Semantic Web

O’Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/), the current name for the geek publishing giant founded by Tim O’Reilly, has finally joined the Semantic Web. O’Reilly’s coining of the term “Web 2.0″ and early misunderstandings of the Semantic Web stack lead some to think that he didn’t see much value in machine readable information. That seems to have changed, at least in within <a href=”http://labs.oreilly.com/”>O’Reilly Labs</a>.

03.27.08

My Semantic Manifesto

I’ve been talking with my son this week about the importance of words and what they mean. He is studying the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Articles of Confederation in his 5th grade history class – he was so inspired by reading those documents that he asked me to take him to the Library of Congress on our trip to Virginia next week. I was suitably impressed and was also reminded of the relationship between concepts and constructs.