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 [...]
So who’s writing about the semantic web in LIS, and what are they writing? I plan to take a look at that through a series of Reading Notes posts. I hope to try out the Blogging on Peer Review Research (BPR3) way of blogging about scholarly articles. So what’s out there to draw from? Taking [...]
If you are finding your way to the blog via the Talking with Talis podcast, hello! I wanted to expand on why I am interested in the Semantic Web as I only briefly touched on this in the podcast. eResearch and Data A couple of years ago, I attended a conference where the theme was [...]
Read/Write Web has a great post on the Semantic Web which gives a brief primer on theory, technology, and applications. “Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies” is a great introduction to what it’s all about with plenty of links to explore. The article also discusses the different meanings of the Semantic Web and [...]
The BBC Internet Blog has a post about the accessibility of their new homepage, and the challenges in designing it. One of the things they did was use Semantic Web markup – Using the results of our user-testing we made semantic mark-up of the page a priority, ensuring that each panel of the homepage design [...]