Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead, gave a presentation on the State of the Semantic Web at this week’s Semantic Web Technologies conference (via: Kingsley Idehen’s Blog Data Space). It’s a great overview of what technologies we have now, what people are working on, how to get involved. But I was pleased to see [...]
Journalism.co.uk (Via ACM TechNews) is reporting that Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the Media Standards Trust in the UK have won a major grant to develop a metadata system to improve search and trust in news information – It received its award for plans to design a way for content creators to add information about sources [...]
I’ve mentioned a few initiatives and projects related to the development of Web 3.0/Semantic Web on this blog where librarians are, or could be, involved. But the big question is, how? Finding out how to get a seat at the table can sometimes be difficult. Here’s a few ways to get involved no matter your [...]
Data seems to be the hot topic right now. It’s all about how we store it, share it, and make it play nice with other data. There is an enthusiasm for openness and a move towards standardisation of data and the ways we share it, but there’s a also a worrying trend – competing standards [...]
I’ve written previously about the importance of the mobile web and the role of mobiles in social change. Now the United Nations Foundation (with Vodafone) has released a report on the use of mobiles by relief, advocacy, and development organisations (via Read/Write Web, Report: ‘Mobile Activism’ on the Rise). One of the most interesting case [...]