Paul Miller from Talis has begun a new blog, Semantic Web, over at ZDNet. Paul will be covering Semantic Web developments from some of the major conferences over the next few months, and providing a more considered look at field. From the first post – I intend to interpret the news, analyse the news, and [...]
Dean Guistini at UBC Academic Search explains why libraries have a role in the Semantic Web: Without over-simplifying, this is what the semantic web is about – making connections between documents, their ideas (and intellectual content) and the people we serve in libraries. If the web is going to be the platform for ideas and [...]
Via ACM TechNews, HPCwire reports on the semantic metadata underpinning Zotero, the free, Firefox-based bibliographic management tool that more and more of us in libraries are using and recommending to our clients. One of the developers, Daniel Cohen says, “But what I think we have done is tackled the problem of citation and research management [...]
I took the long road back from ALA Annual held a few weeks back (ie, vacation), and in that time there’s been a few interesting developments. LITA Top Technology Trends This year’s Top Tech Trends featured a dizzying array of trends and technologies, as well as technologies in the room that didn’t always work quite [...]
Stephen Abram has a short post today about the semantic web, linking to a post over at ReadWriteWeb. What is most interesting about this post though is not Stephen’s post (sorry Stephen!) but the comment left below it by Mark Andews. In part, Andrew says – We’re so far behind the curve that, by the [...]