Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web
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A complex series of extensions to the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web's purpose is to make data and services more accessible to computers and people than the web we know today. A sampling of topics includes knowledge modeling (RDF, Topic Maps), agents (DAML, FIPA), Trust and Authentication. By Manning Publications Co. 0904
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New Scholar service promises next level of search engines.
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This third and final article in the Metasploit series covers the msfcli scripting interface as well as the intuitive web interface to the Framework. The article also discusses what's new with version 2.2, and then introduces the exploit development process through an example.
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Editor - FirstScience.com. I have been experimenting of late with various internet browsers as potential replacements for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot, a search tool that has the added feature of summarizing results. Very often, the intent of a user is to obtain brief information on a concept or a keyword. In [...]
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The Semantic Web, a concept tossed around for years as a Web extension to make it easier to find and group information, is getting a critical boost Tuesday from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).W3C will announce publication of SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") query technology, a Semantic Web component enabling people to focus on what they want to know rather than on the database technology or data format used to store data, W3C said.The potential of the Semantic Web cannot be underestimated. By scanning the Web on behalf of users, even Google's ad-based business model could be impacted, an analyst said.SPARQL queries express high-levels goals and are easier to extend to unanticipated data sources. The technology overcomes limitations of local searches and single formats, according to W3C."[SPARQL is] the query language and protocol for the Semantic Web," said Lee Feigenbaum, chair of the RDF (Resource Description Framework) Data Access Working Group at W3C, which is responsible for SPARQL.Already available in 14 known implementations, SPARQL is designed to be used at the scale of the Web to allow queries over distributed data sources independent of format. It also can be used for mashing up Web 2.0 data.The Semantic Web, the W3C said, is intended to enable sharing, merging, and reusing of data globally. "The basic idea of the Semantic Web is take the idea of the Web, which is effectively a linked set of documents around the world, and apply it to data," Feigenbaum said."One way to think about the Semantic Web is the Web as one big database," said Ian Jacobs, W3C representative. A database, he said, enables querying and manipulation of data. More database-like Web sites are emerging, he said.Comparing the Semantic Web to search sites such as Google, Jacobs said Google allows for searching through document text, essentially. The Semantic Web, meanwhile, allows for automation and combining of data, he said.While the Semantic Web concept has been talked about for several years, Feigenbaum believes momentum is building. He cited DBpedia, which extracts structured information form Wikipedia, as an example of a Web site based on the Semantic Web.With the Semantic Web's ability to hone in on just the information a user needs, companies based on a Web search advertising model such as Google may have to reconsider their plans, said analyst Jonas Lamis, executive director of SciVestor."They may need to rethink their business model because if I have an agent that acts on my behalf and finds things that are interesting for me, it's not necessarily going to be reading Google ads to do that," Lamis said.The goal of the Semantic Web is to serve as a giant set of databases that can be integrated, Jacobs said. The Semantic Web has seen a lot of uptake in the health care and life sciences, he said. The drug discovery and pharmaceutical fields can use it to take clinical results and learn from data, according to Jacobs.At pharmaceuticals company Eli Lilly, Semantic Web technology is being used for research."We're using it for our targeted assessment tools, which helps us to find out as much information or find out lots of information about drug targets of interest," said Susie Stephens, principal research scientist at Eli Lilly and chair of the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach Working Group. A drug target is a protein in the body that is to be modified with a particular drug."We use Semantic Web technologies to help us link to lots of information about the drug targets," she said.The SPARQL specification works with other W3C Semantic Web technologies. These include: RDF, for representing data; RDF Schema; Web Ontology Language (OWL) for building vocabularies; and Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) for automatic extraction of Semantic Web data from documents.SPARQL also can use other W3C standards such as WSDL.The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group has produced three SPARQL recommendations being issued Tuesday: the SPARQL Query Language for RDF; SPARQL Protocol for RDF; and SPARQL Query Results for XML Format.Participants in the working group include persons from companies such as Agfa-Gevaert, HP, IBM, Matsushita, and Oracle. W3C released statements of support from numerous parties, including HP and Oracle."SPARQL is a key element for integrated information access across information silos and across business boundaries. HP customers can benefit from better information utilization by employing semantic Web technologies," said Jean-Luc Chatelain, CTO of HP Software Information management, in the company's statement."HP's Jena Semantic Web framework has a complete implementation of query language, protocol, and result set processing," Chatelain said."As an active participant in this working group, Oracle believes the standardization of SPARQL will play an instrumental role in achieving the vision of the Semantic Web," said Don Deutsch, Oracle vice president of Standards Strategy and Oracle, in Oracle's statement.
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openRiverbed - the PHP5 framework. Plugins, XML based configuration, XML2PDF output generation, template based, multi-language support for application and content, encrypted sessions, test-driven, oo developed... Must have!   New: - system administration GUI - configuration splitting - sitemap module - cookie based session - SEO like - yahoo js-framework integrated - title tag SEO - BUGFIXES
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A guide to Computerworld's recent coverage of Web services and service-oriented architectures, including user applications, security issues and predictions.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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In this section we look at validating XML documents against XML schemas. Topics covered include: retrieving XML data, accessing relational data through XMLType views, using XMLType views and performing DML operations on XML schema-based XMLType views. By Yuli Vasiliev. 1001
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Search headlines from around the web, December 29, 2004.
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Uncovering tomorrow's industry leaders today.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Backed by the experience of leading linguistic experts and technology that takes into consideration, ontology, morphology and synonymy, CognitionSearch, the semantic engine from Cognition technologies  touts to have the perfect recipe to nail &#8220;meaning&#8221; in search. Launching in the vertical domains of legal services, medical and health sciences, Cognition search intends to gain traction and [...]
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Tim Berners-Lee gives the world its first practical web browser. Can Google be far behind? Compiled by Tony Long.
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Microsoft-endorsed Open XML Translator project releases downloadable ODF converter.