"I grew up in India, with a household full of servants. However politically incorrect it may be to say so, I thoroughly enjoyed the lifestyle of being able to delegate tedious tasks to these servants. Thus, in the future that I envision, I would very much like to see Intelligent Agent “Servants” taking care of lots of my repetitive tasks."

Interesting post on what the Semantic Web means to an entrepreneur and not an academic...

Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education.

Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web.

The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2008 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops.

ESWC 2008 is sponsored by STI2, Semantic Technology Institutes International. For more information on STI2, please visit http://www.sti2.org.

There is a sizable international effort working on the Virtual Observatory; there is a considerably larger worldwide effort to make the Semantic Web a reality and where these two concerns intersect is Semantic Astronomy.

As a field, it includes subjects such as:

• metadata for astronomical databases
• semantic queries and data mining
• astronomical and solar ontologies
• knowledgebases
• the application of semantic technologies

The promise for astronomy (and other sciences) includes:

• semantic data access
• exploiting distributed annotation and heterogeneous sources
• intelligent data dissemination and discovery.
• Practical Semantic astronomy

The Semantic Web.

Is everyone confused?

 
How well can you explain what the Semantic Web is?

Cool post about the 7 wonders of the IT world, from the computer that is closest to our North Pole, to the Linux Kernel.

The Seven wonders of the IT world

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using wikis and the Semantic Web look to change the way people map and navigate their cities.

The Wiki City project, run by MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory, aims to apply wiki technology to the mapmaking process. The project's ultimate product will permit anyone to upload content to a map and utilize Semantic Web principles to cross search multiple layers of information.

The Semantic Web:Difficulties with the Classic approach.

Article on Semantic Web Research in the New York Times.

The SemanticReport will bring you news, interviews, analysis, presentations, case studies, white papers, and anything you tell us you are interested in receiving with regard to the broad range of technology falling under the domain of semantic technology.The Semantic Report is all about the business side of semantic technologies and applications.

List of all commercial products currently using Semantic Web technologies.

Open ID and building the Social Web  with it as found on  Slideshare.

10 future Web Trends from Read/Write Blog.

At the top of the list is the Semantic Web...

The Economist has an interesting article on the road to Web 3.0 and the geo web found here.

DBpedia 2.0 released

After quite some work into improving the DBpedia information extraction framework,a new version of the DBpedia dataset has been released. The renewed DBpedia dataset describes 1,950,000 “things”, including at least 80,000 persons, 70,000 places, 35,000 music albums, 12,000 films. It contains 657,000 links to images, 1,600,000 links to relevant external web pages and 440,000 [...]...

Thats lots of data then..

DBpedia

Bill Mc Daniel is currently undergoing treatment for his cancer of Multiple Myeloma.

He recently underwent treatment for stem cell transplant, as he says himself, underwent it and has lived to blog about it.

We wish Bill good luck and a speedy recovery.

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"Every link has a relation on the Semantic Web. Each time a person create a link from a web page to another web page, it does much more than simply linking… In fact, the Web and the Semantic Web are starting to mesh together.

The meshing is occurring at the level of the URI, or more specifically at the level of the URL if we are talking about the Web. This is what I will show you in this post using a Wordpress plug-in developed using Zitgist technologies."

Zitgist is taking shape.

The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and

The 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, 2007

Location: Busan, Koreah

Dates: November 11 (Sunday) - 15 (Thursday), 2007

More information on it here.

Bringing the semantic web to Drupal.

"The Semantic Web (Web 3.0) is a huge effort which will take many years to complete. Some obstacles are technical, some political, and others are economic. This module is to reduce the barrier to entry for small organizations into using RDF as a complimentary content repository to Drupals native RDBMS."

More information on Semantic search and Drupal found here.

Useful article for anyone to understand what RDF is from Digital Web magazine.