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April 2008 Issue
This month, SemanticReport is changing its format to conform more closely with publishing trends that are familiar to most of us involved with semantic technology. We have enlisted an impressive cadre of professionals as bloggers, and rather than publishing monthly issues of the SemanticReport, we will encourage you to subscribe to SemanticReport's RSS feeds. We will continue send out email updates that contain announcements of recent blog entries, and these updates will include any articles and interviews that we have published in previous weeks.
We are continuing to entertain submissions from those of you who would like to blog for the SemanticReport. If you have a focus on the business aspects of semantics, and can help to provide coverage of this increasingly active sector, please let me know.
Note that I will be attending the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, this May 18-22, and look forward to meeting with you. Contact me if you would like to schedule an interview, or just a chance to talk.
Scott Koegler
Editor, SemanticReport
scott (at) semanticreport.com
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| Open Source API |
Interview with Gerry Campbell - Reuters and OpenCalais
Earlier this month we spoke with Gerry Campbell, President, Reuters Search & Content Technologies, about the with Reuters' OpenCalais project. Calais is an open platform designed to extract RDF and metadata from documents. Reuters, as one of the world's largest news gathering organizations, amasses huge amounts of information every day, and has turned to semantic technologies to automate the task of categorizing all that information. As a byproduct of its efforts, Reuters has opened its dev...
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| More Than Expected |
The Check Box
I recently completed a high-profile deliverable for a major client. While I feel satisfaction for meeting the explicit goals of the project, I'm even happier that I've finally met goals that reflect some of my core motivations for working with information technology. To illustrate what I've done - and why - I'm going to use a specific event that happened over three years ago.
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| Mark Birbeck | Mother and baby doing well
You know something is up when RDF and the Semantic Web are mentioned on TechCrunch . That's not one of the 'new company raises $6m to enable Semantic Web search, but is never heard of again' kind of mentions. It's a simple, straightforward, 'Yahoo! is now starting to index the metadata embedded in our web-pages, and the web is bound to follow' kind of mentions.
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| J. Brooke Aker | Connecting the Dots
What is commonly understood about the Semantic Web is not what I care to write about. I have a long professional history of looking to the future of business and how things come together in unique and challenging ways. In other words how stuff turns out that most people did not anticipate and thus did not factor into their decision making - sometimes with terrible consequences. This is no doubt true also with the Semantic Web.
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| Golda Velez | Hey, I thought you could name _anything_
I love RDFa. RDFa is cool. If you haven't tried it, try it, you'll like it - its just a really simple way to embed RDF statements in a valid HTML doc using a couple properties like about= and rel= and property=. Check out the primer which is pretty well written and published last October at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
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| Golda Velez | Who's doing it?
So I'm researching an article on semantic technologies for web publishers, for which I'll probably be paid about one percent of my usual consulting rate. But, the perks can't be beat - I get to talk to really cool people who want to spend time explaining their stuff.
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| Cameron Hunt | Innovation Wrangler
Working with semantic technology within the US Department Of Defense has been good for my ego. It's easy to appear to be the smartest guy in the room when you're discussing ideas and technology that barely exist outside of academia - a key selling point to a military culture that has seen their technological uniqueness suffer as the open market consistently produces more sophisticated solutions at a fraction of the cost.
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| Dean Allemang | The Federation Papers
I was talking to a reporter about the Semantic Web and its benefits the other day. Since the Semantic Web, among other things, is about making the Web into a web of data, one of the main design issues behind it is the notion of federated data.
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