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The Provenance Working Group just had its second F2F meeting where we made substantial progress on a number of issues in creating a way to interchange provenance on the Web. We wanted to let the community know where were at …

05 Feb 2012 1:59pm GMT

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05 Feb 2012 1:59pm GMT

Reed Elsevier is searching for a Technical Project Manager of eContent in Missouri.

03 Feb 2012 4:30pm GMT

What does semantic content enrichment mean? How to 'reinvent search.' The BBC's new semantic website and why temporal metadata could be the new oil.

03 Feb 2012 12:12pm GMT

SWAT4LS 2012 : International School on Semantic Web Applications and Technologies for the Life Sciences 2012.

03 Feb 2012 1:01am GMT

The Journal of Web Semantics has another new publication this week, a special issue on reasoning with context in the Semantic Web.

02 Feb 2012 6:00pm GMT

Bing is looking for a new Senior Software Development Engineer in Bellevue, WA.

02 Feb 2012 4:30pm GMT

Sears Holdings is looking for an Architect of Development in Hoffman Estates, IL.

01 Feb 2012 4:30pm GMT

The W3C RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Last Call Working Drafts today: RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. …

31 Jan 2012 4:35pm GMT

Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research ...

31 Jan 2012 4:35pm GMT

Accenture is looking for a Data Management R&D Consultant in San Jose, CA.

31 Jan 2012 4:30pm GMT

Tomás Saorín & Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez have published a Spanish Translation of the W3C Linked Library Data Incubator Group's report "Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets", under the title "Conjuntos de Datos, Vocabularios controlados y Conjuntos de Elementos de …

31 Jan 2012 3:25pm GMT

Cityon is looking for a Senior Software Developer in Houston, TX.

30 Jan 2012 4:30pm GMT

W3C today published the final report of the Linked Enterprise Data Workshop, hosted by W3C on the 6-7 December in Cambridge, MA, USA. This workshop provided a way for the community to meet and discuss some of the challenges when …

18 Jan 2012 2:28pm GMT

The HTML Data Task Force of the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group has published two documents today: The HTML Data Guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data. With several syntaxes (microformats, microdata, RDFa) and vocabularies (schema.org, Dublin …

12 Jan 2012 4:03pm GMT

Knowing how, where, when and why content was produced is an important part of making a trustworthy web. However, it is often difficult to interchange this provenance information between systems. For example, it's often difficult to locate or find provenance …

11 Jan 2012 6:56pm GMT

The W3C Provenance Working Group has published two new documents: The "Provenance Access and Query" document specifies how to use standard Web protocols, including HTTP, to obtain information about the provenance of Web resources. The "Provenance Primer" provides an intuitive …

10 Jan 2012 3:59pm GMT

The W3C SPARQL Working Group has published the (second) Last Call Working Drafts of the following SPARQL 1.1 documents: SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF graphs. SPARQL 1.1 Service Description defines a vocabulary and discovery mechanism for …

06 Jan 2012 12:51pm GMT

The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of RDFa Core 1.1, a specification for attributes to express structured data in any markup language. The group also published an update to XHTML+RDFa 1.1, a Host Language for …

16 Dec 2011 9:33am GMT

The Provenance Working Group has published a new Working Draft of The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation. Provenance of information is crucial in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be integrated with other diverse …

16 Dec 2011 9:27am GMT

The Linked Data Cloud diagram is back; bigger, better, and powered by the CKAN registry tool.

23 Sep 2010 1:05pm GMT

Apple buys Siri, and brings real semantic smarts to Cupertino.

30 Apr 2010 8:12pm GMT

This podcast conversation with David Siegel discusses his latest book, Pull, and explores the many ways in which Siegel believes a semantic web can power business today and into the future.

18 Mar 2010 11:57am GMT

Martin Hepp and Jamie Taylor answer questions about the GoodRelations vocabulary in a podcast conversation, exploring opportunities to enrich the way in which we compare goods and services.

22 Feb 2010 10:52am GMT

Semantic Technology startup, Siri, releases a Virtual Personal Assistant for the iPhone and simplifies a wide range of tasks for US consumers on the move. Just by speaking to their phone, users can make dinner reservations, check the weather, find movies, flights and more.

05 Feb 2010 6:29am GMT

Thomson Reuters and Oracle today announced support for the media giant's OpenCalais metadata generation service within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g. The integration gives Oracle users and developers direct access to OpenCalais' natural language processing (NLP) capabilities.More importantly, perhaps, direct integration with an Enterprise product such as Oracle's database says much about how far [...]

01 Sep 2009 12:15pm GMT

Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration's Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers.At the heart of many of today's initiatives [...]

10 Aug 2009 10:46am GMT

10 Aug 2009 10:46am GMT

An oft-repeated concern in discussing large-scale deployment of Semantic Web ideas is that of 'scale.' With many of the better known data stores upon which the Semantic Web depends capable of storing only tens or at best a few hundreds of millions of RDF triples, it can be difficult to argue that the technology is [...]

14 Jul 2009 12:20pm GMT

June's episode of the regular Semantic Web Gang podcast was recorded on stage at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.Audio and video of the session is now available, with Gang members and conference organiser Tony Shaw engaging in a discussion of the event's highlights and the underlying trends at work.

09 Jul 2009 11:48am GMT

The keynote on this final day of the Semantic Technology Conference saw Robert Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times talk about the paper's innovative adoption of semantic technologies;"The first semantic search system for The New Times was released in 1913 and was available bound in either paper ($6) or cloth ($8). In [...]

18 Jun 2009 7:36pm GMT