Semantic Library

Data, meaning, content

New XML conversion tool – Lemon8-XML

Posted on 28 November, 2008 by Fiona

David Bigwood points to the latest project from the Public Knowledge Project (who are behind the Open Conference/ Journal/ Monograph Systems software) – Lemon8-XML a web-based tool to convert word-processing documents to XML. Bigwood notes, “Adding semantic mark-up to text is something the cataloger in me always finds good. Microformats, XML, or RDF all make [...]

Metadata and trust

Posted on 21 May, 2008 by Fiona

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 [...]