Enterprise Cloud Computing Track at Cloud Expo
No sooner did W3C hire itself a new CEO to run day-to-day operations than Tim
Berners-Lee, who is still supposed to be director of W3C, turns up running a
new research center that the British government is putting around $45 million
(£30 million) into called the Institute for Web Science. It's supposed to
develop, maybe even commercialize, Berners-Lee's quixotic next-generation
notions of a Semantic Web and put the UK on the cutting edge of emerging
Internet technologies, according to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who also
wants every home in the UK to have super-fast broadband by 2020. The
institute will be jointly based at the Universities of Oxford and
Southampton, the latter a hot bed of Semantic Web research where Berners-Lee
has had a part-time post since 2004.
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Much of the literature heralding the benefits of XML has focused on its
application as a medium for application interoperability. With (a) the
Internet as a platform, (b) Web services as the functional building block
components of an orchestrated application, and (c) XML as a common data
format, applications will be able to communicate and collaborate seamlessly
and transparently, without human intervention. All that's needed to make a
reality is (d) for everyone to agree on and use XML tags the same way so that
when an application sees a tag such as it will know what... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- AD:TECH -- Crystal Semantics, the
leader of contextual Internet search solutions and developer of the world's
first patented Sense Engine Technology, announced today that its
Textonomy.advance(TM) technology will be incorporated into the Experclick
advertising network. Textonomy.advance will deliver more relevant ads to
consumers by utilizing patented contextual search technologies to better
recognize the context of a consumer's search. The result is that Experclick's
advertising customers will benefit from serving more targeted, relevant a... (more)
As I was traveling across Asia and hanging out in waiting rooms, customs
lines, etc., my mind turns to the future, since the present is so dull. In
our business you always have to keep wondering "What is the next big thing?".
The more I think about it, "Semantics" always seems to bubble up to the top.
To be clear, Semantics is the study of meaning. But its much more than that.
Everything old is new again
Note that I did not say Semantics is the next New thing. In fact, The pursuit
of "Semantic Technology" is by no means a new pursuit. The earliest research
on semantics and compute... (more)
Although XML defines each data element in a given transaction (the
semantics), there's no mechanism to also communicate the business context.
This represents the difference between reading XML and understanding the
business impact of the transaction. The use of namespaces, numeric values,
and time stamps all create some context when looking across transactions or
business entities. In this article we'll discuss the difference between
semantics and context and the challenges this difference creates relative to
performance and scalability.
One of the core tenets of XML is its exte... (more)
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