Of all the areas where Semantic Technology may help to transform current practices, no one area may be impacted more than Science.

I’ll distinguish empirical science from the myriad of other sciences by stating that it is characterized more by processes designed to facilitate discovery – the scientific method. The goal of empirical science is to solve problems, it does so through answering a series of questions, often through use of experimentation. Of the IT domains I’ve discussed previously the one that is most involved in pure science is Healthcare, so let’s take a look at that for moment.

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Microsoft Rubs Shoulders with Open Source SYS-CON Media, NJ “The Web is broken for scientific researchers – full of hyperlinks of scholarly articles, but it is nearly impossible for us to find what we need,” said John Wilbanks, VP for Science at Creative Commons. “The semantic Web tool will help bridge the gap …

Microsoft Releases Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research … PR Newswire (press release), NY "The Web is broken for scientific researchers — full of hyperlinks of scholarly articles, but it is nearly impossible for us to find what we need," said John Wilbanks , vice president for Science at Creative Commons. "The semantic Web tool will help …