KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) and MOJ (Ministry of Justice of Korea) have provided a W3C Semantic Web Case Study on an intelligent Legislation Support System (iLaw). The system integrates legislation texts and academic articles from the USA, Japan, the European Union Countries, and Korea using Semantic Web technologies. Using locally developed ontologies, iLaw provides further relationships, shows trends and related hierarchical information connected with a legal term to local government departments; in doing so, iLaw helps legislators to review bills or legal cases in a wider, more comprehensive and international legal framework.

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Introduction to the AXIS-CRM and to its implementation

1. The AXIS-Conceptual Reference Model

1.1 Generalities

A new modular and tailorable approach for the semantic modeling of static and dynamic knowledge has been elaborated under the name “AXIS Conceptual Reference Model” (AXIS-CRM). AXIS organizes that modeling as networks of Autonomous Semantic Objects (ASO). In turn, each ASO is expressed as a network of Elementary Semantic Entities (ESE). The ASO wraps the instances and their models to becomes ‘autonomous’. At Elementary Semantic Entity level (simply called ‘Entities’) the modeling uses four leveled constructors: Term; Document; Relation; Profile. The knowledge models and their instances are represented by a collection of Documents (among with the OWL files expressing the models) bundled by a Configuration Management Document (based on RDF). These collections are semantic Entities that can represent any topical subject or object. These Entities are linked through typed Relations. The dynamic aspects (events) and the imports / exports are also managed by dedicated Entities.

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ICT Results

Grid browser finds the meaning of life ICT Results, Belgium The problem is how to link those services to other scientific information found on the web. Schroeder is coordinator of the EU-funded Sealife project which has created a ‘semantic grid browser’ to make grid services for the life sciences much more …

EU patent research prepares for commercialization EE Times Deutschland, Belgium “The implications of the use of semantic technologies in the patent domain are far-reaching. Semantic technologies used in PatExpert facilitate access to the contents of patent documentation and, thus, improve the accuracy of search, analysis and …

EUROPA

EU project picks up the patent processing pace EUROPA, Belgium For a team of EU-funded researchers, the use of semantic Web technology could be just what the patent doctor ordered. Backed with EUR 2.5 million in funding, the patexpert (‘Advanced patent document processing techniques’) project targeted the …

Amplify Secures 12th Patent in Natural Language Processing Market Wire (press release) With 12 patents in the US, EU Region and Sweden, Hapax’s 30-strong international team are Semantic Web pioneers, thanks to their technology, which can deconstruct, analyse and mark up text in a fast, robust and highly scalable system. …

GoOn Research and Development Project Wins Theseus-Mittelstand eHealthNews.EU (press release), Germany Over the next two years, the project – based on the results of Theseus One – will develop praxis-relevant semantic technologies for information handling in the biomedical domain. The first goal of the project is to develop a specialized search engine …

Executive Summary

SeMuSe is an open and collaborative community based project to work on a Semantic Museum vision, and provides a forum for discussion of the future of applied cultural and natural heritage data management. Members of SeMuSe can greatly benefit from advancements made in the Semantic Technology community. The goal of SeMuSe is to help organizations and practitioners to introduce Semantic Technologies and concepts to cultural and natural heritage data management efforts and to capitalize on the results of more than a decade of Semantic Technology research. Emerging technology standards like RDF, RDFS and OWL and domain specific vocabularies such as museumdat and the CIDOC CRM ontology specification are a marriage made in Semantic Technology heaven, allowing to lead semantic cultural and natural heritage data management to its full potential – SeMuSe.

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