White House

04.28.10

The RDFa initiative in Drupal 7, and how it will impact the Semantic Web

Drupal 7 (alpha), the latest major release of the popular open source CMS, includes a lot of features for web publishers interested in implementing Semantic Web Technologies.

04.21.10

A Giant Whooshing Sound

Did you hear that sound this week? The giant whooshing sound? There was a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Semantic Web academics, implementors and enthusiasts sighed in unison and their critics were silenced. I believe something wonderful has happened.

With apologies to Mr. Lucas, I don’t think that little bit of exaggerated whimsy is far from the truth.

10.29.09

White House shift to open-source Web system draws mostly praise – GCN.com

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

09.22.09

September 2009: The Semantic Web Gang discuss Government data and data.gov

In September’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang we are joined by Brand Niemann of the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a discussion of efforts to apply semantic technologies to Government data in the USA and elsewhere.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

05.22.09

Data.gov … What impact will it have and how important is it?

I’m following yesterday’s Data.gov launch rather closely, and I assume many of the readers of Semantic Universe are doing the same. For more details go to…no surprise…http://www.data.gov/ (!!)

This is open data/linked data going really mainstream, with the backing of the White House. I have to believe it will be reported on and publicized much more than the average tech industry announcement. Which is good for us in the semantic community, right?