Announcing Semantic Tech & Business Conference - San Francisco 2012

Semantic Tech & Business Conference is returning to San Francisco in June! Join us from June 3-7 for complete coverage of Big Data, Linked Data, Extreme Information Management, and Semantic Web. From breakthrough approaches to solving business problems to the big data implications of fast–evolving technologies, SemTechBiz provides you with an unparalleled interactive experience and delivers tangible business value. We're offering a special early rate when you register by February 17. Sign up now!

NYT, Wolters Kluwer Germany and Semantic Universe Sponsor Triplification … Earthtimes (press release) The Challenge 2010 is organized by an international consortium of Semantic Web experts and patroned by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Participants can choose between … and more »

The multilingual semantic web has a featured role in the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Work began with the Agrovoc Thesaurus, a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains, and has progressed to the development of the Agrovoc Concept Server that is a first step towards an ontology service. The conversion process is being completed and a test version has been deployed, says FAO information and knowledge management officer Margherita Sini. When all is said and done, it will be the basis for developing specific domain ontologies that account for multilinguality and the localized representation of knowledge, and it can lead to additional and better services for users.

Stakeholders range from the FAO itself to students studying agricultural improvements in China or India to scientists who need information about specific organisms to policy makers who need various agricultural statistics to farmers in remote areas who may need to access services – such as information they don’t have today on new ways of dealing with crop pests, for instance—with the help of specialists at village centers that support Internet access. “The idea is to convert into a concept service or kind of ontology where we have concepts, terms and relationships and also can extract part of it and create domain-specific ontologies and build another application on top of it,” she says. “Generally on projects we are working to meet the needs of a variety of users so multilinguality is important. Not everybody speaks English.”

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Rulers of the Cloud: A Multi-Tenant Semantic Cloud is Forming & EMC Knows that … ReadWriteWeb (blog) Tim Berners Lee sheds some light in this interview about the future of the web and its data. Question: "Is your vision of the Semantic Web one in which data …

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The State of Linked Data in 2010 ReadWriteWeb (blog) Linked Data is a subset of the wider Semantic Web movement, in which data on the Web is encoded with meaning using technologies such as RDF and OWL. …

We kicked off the Semantic Wave series about creative destruction in major markets with the “mother of all markets”, financial services. You can see the three intro blogs here, here and here. This caught the eye of Frederic Baud an entrepreneur who is passionate about the disruptive possibilities of P2P (Peer To Peer) financing. Read on for our interview with Frederic:

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David Siegel: From Killer Web Sites to Semantic Web ReadWriteWeb (blog) In Siegel’s latest book, Pull, he tackles the Semantic Web. Once again, Siegel plays loosely with existing web standards. Siegel’s definition of ‘Semantic …

WSU project to gauge "social perceptions" through Twitter Dayton Daily News The center has one of the nation’s largest academic research groups in the semantic web, also known as Web 3.0, according to university officials. … and more »

NewspaperARCHIVE.com Announces New Search Engine Partnership I-Newswire.com (press release) Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with its platform, Exalead CloudViewâ„¢, which uses advanced semantic technologies to bring …

In part 1 of the Cyber Security and Semantics series we discussed some of the highlights of how or where semantics may help transform the practice of Cyber Security. To understand the full implications of why Semantics and Semantic Technology is so crucial for Cyber Security we need to examine more of the problem space associated with.

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