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\n Akara 2.0 is an open-source (Apache2 license) Web framework specialized for RESTful data services, especially involving XML and other semi-structured formats. Akara is a tool for data architects and developers who express data models and create transforms based on these data models, plugging required inputs and outputs (XML, JSON, CSV, Atom, etc.) together into pipelines which implement the desired services. These services are made available on the Web using simple wrappers based on REST concepts, among other things making it easy to discover and reuse the services, and to connect them to local and remote systems using Web triggers (AKA Web hooks).

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Akara simplifies extract-transform-load (ETL), data-driven integration of systems, and makes it easy to wrap Web sites and services, turning tag soup and painful APIs into clean, RESTful end-points. Zepheira uses Akara heavily, in projects for The Library of Congress and Semio Clinical, among others, and provides commercial data transform services via Akara.

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At the beginning of March 2010, in Boulder, Colorado, Zepheira hosted a summit and sprint for development on the project, with invited developers from Zepheira's extended network, and its clients. The focus was on solidifying the open source project, and working on improvements motivated by recent deployments of Akara. The summit was held at Boulder Millennium Harvest House. Topics ranged from rules-based XML processing in streaming mode (for high performance) to improved support for HTTP Caching, packaging, deployment, internationalization and more. Andrew Dalke posted notes on the proceedings.

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", "updated": "2010-03-08T16:38:36+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#Akara_Summit_March_2010", "title": "Akara Summit March, 2010", "summary": "\n \n At the beginning of March 2010, in Boulder, Colorado, Zepheira hosted a summit and sprint for development on the Open Source Akara project, which is used by clients including The Library of Congress and Semio Clinical. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "Akara_Summit_March_2010", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#Akara_Summit_March_2010" }, { "category": [ "Linking Enterprise Data", "Book", "Editors", "David Wood", "Eric Miller", "Uche Ogbuji" ], "content": "
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Zepheira Partners David Wood, Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji announce a Call for Chapters for a new book to be entitled Linking Enterprise Data. The book will be published by Springer Science+Business Media. First proposal submissions are due January 31, 2010 and full chapter submissions are due April 2, 2010 to david+led@zepheira.com.

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\n CHAPTER PROPOSALS INVITED FROM RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS IN DATA MANAGEMENT AND WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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1st Proposal Submission Deadline: January 31, 2010

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Full Chapter Submission Deadline: April 2, 2010

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\n Linking Enterprise Data

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A book edited by David Wood, Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji, Zepheira, USA

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To be published by Springer Science+Business Media

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I. Introduction

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Linking Enterprise Data is the application of Semantic Web architecture principles to real-world information management issues faced by commercial, not-for-profit and government enterprises. The term LED is a play on Linking Open Data (LOD), a community project started by the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group aimed at exposing data sets to the Web in standard formats and actively relating them to one another with hyperlinks.

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Enterprise data is growing at a much faster rate than traditional technologies allow. The World Wide Web is the only information system we know that scales to the degree that it does and is robust to both changes and failure of components. Most software does not work nearly as well as the Web does. Applying the Web's architectural principles (not necessarily the public World Wide Web itself) for enterprise problems may be the only way to effectively address the current and future information glut. Challenges remain, however, because the use of distributed architectures requires enterprises to give up the central control and planning traditionally applied by IT departments.

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II. Objective of the Book

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This book aims to provide practical approaches to addressing common information management issues by the application of Semantic Web and Linked Data research to production environments. The approaches taken are based on international standards. The book is to be written and edited by leaders in Semantic Web and Linked Data research and standards development and early adopters of Semantic Web and Linked Data standards and techniques.

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III. Target Audience

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This book is meant for Semantic Web researchers and academicians, and CTOs, CIOs, enterprise architects, project managers and application developers in commercial, not-for-profit and government organizations concerned with scalability, flexibility and robustness of information management systems. Not-for-profit organizations specifically include the library and museum communities.

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Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Business, technical and social values of applying Web architecture to enterprise content, such as the means by which deployment agility, resilience and reuse of data may be accomplished - Building of social (human-centered) communities to curate distributed data - Enterprise infrastructure for Linking Enterprise Data - Persistent Identifiers for the Web, life sciences, libraries and memory organizations - Linking the government cloud - Applications of Linked Data to enterprises, such as drug discovery, clinical information, organizational learning or curation of/access to distributed information - Publishing large-scale Linked Data

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IV. Publisher

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This book is scheduled for publication by Springer Science+Business Media. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit . This publication is scheduled to be released in 2011.

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V. Important Dates

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January 31, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline

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February 15, 2010: Notification of Acceptance

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April 2, 2010: Full Chapter Submission

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April 16, 2010: Review Results Notification

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May 7, 2010: Revised Chapter Submission

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May 14, 2010: Final Decision Notification

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May 28, 2010: Final Revised and Formatted Chapter Submission

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Inquiries and submissions should be sent by electronic mail to:

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David Wood Partner Zepheira david+led@zepheira.com

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", "updated": "2010-01-26T19:03:33+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LED_Book", "title": "Call for Chapters: Linking Enterprise Data", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira Partners David Wood, Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji announce a Call for Chapters for a new book to be entitled Linking Enterprise Data. The book will be published by Springer Science+Business Media. First proposal submissions are due January 31, 2010 and full chapter submissions are due April 2, 2010 to david+led@zepheira.com. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji", "Eric Miller", "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "LED_Book", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LED_Book" }, { "category": [ "Linking Enterprise Data", "LED", "Book", "David Wood", "Uche Ogbuji", "Eric Miller" ], "content": "
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Proposals for the new book Linking Enterprise Data are due by 31 January 2010. Please see the full Call for Chapters.

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Zepheira Partners David Wood, Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji would like to remind the Semantic Web and Linked Data communities to submit their proposals on time. The book will be published by Springer Science+Business Media. First proposal submissions are due January 31, 2010 and full chapter submissions are due April 15, 2010 to david+led@zepheira.com. Thanks to the authors who have already responded.

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", "updated": "2010-01-25T02:29:52+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LED_Book_Deadline", "title": "Last Week for Proposals: Linking Enterprise Data", "summary": "\n \n Proposals for the new book Linking Enterprise Data are due by 31 January 2010. Please see the full Call for Chapters. \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "LED_Book_Deadline", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LED_Book_Deadline" }, { "category": [ "RDF", "W3C", "David Wood" ], "content": "
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Zepheira Partner David Wood will co-chair a W3C Workshop on the future of RDF sometime in the summer of 2010 with Stefan Decker of DERI and Ivan Herman of the W3C. The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Semantic Web community on whether and in which direction RDF should evolve. Participants will discuss a possible revision of the 2004 RDF Recommendation (tentatively called RDF 2.0).

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The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Semantic Web community on whether and in which direction RDF should evolve. The Workshop should help decide whether the W3C should start a new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next version of RDF.

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Anyone may participate in the workshop, but each participant will be required to submit a position paper beforehand. Requirements for position papers as well as dates and the location of the workshop will be provided as planning proceeds. The draft Call for Position Papers is available from the W3C Web site.

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", "updated": "2009-12-08T21:18:44+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#RDF2.0", "title": "RDF 2.0 Workshop", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira Partner David Wood will co-chair a W3C Workshop on the future of RDF sometime in the summer of 2010 with Stefan Decker of DERI and Ivan Herman of the W3C. The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Semantic Web community on whether and in which direction RDF should evolve. Participants will discuss a possible revision of the 2004 RDF Recommendation (tentatively called RDF 2.0). \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "RDF2.0", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#RDF2.0" }, { "category": [ "JES", "Callimachus", "David Wood", "James Leigh" ], "content": "
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At the annual National Science Distributed Learning conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), participants learned how JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network (ASN) framework is being used by Australia's Curriculum Corporation in an effort to link educational resource data globally. Zepheira partner David Wood and contractor James Leigh worked with JES to develop a reusable, Open Source editor for Resource Description Framework content as a key portion of this work.

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Zepheira combined the JES editor with the Alibaba RDF framework and the Mulgara Semantic Web database to produce a simple and extensible solutions stack for the creation of arbitrary Semantic Web applications. This solutions stack will be released as a new Open Source software project (see Zepheira's pre-announcement here.

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See the full JES & Co. press release for more details on the expansion of the Achievement Standards Network.

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", "updated": "2009-12-07T03:59:17+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#JES_Australia", "title": "JES & Co. Expands the Achievement Standards Network", "summary": "\n \n At the annual National Science Distributed Learning conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), participants learned how JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network (ASN) framework is being used by Australia's Curriculum Corporation in an effort to link educational resource data globally. Zepheira partner David Wood and contractor James Leigh worked with JES to develop a reusable, Open Source editor for Resource Description Framework content as a key portion of this work. \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "JES_Australia", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#JES_Australia" }, { "category": [ "Recollection", "Semantic Web", "Eric Miller" ], "content": "
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Zepheira president Eric Miller will be speaking at the The Semantic Web: Fact or Myth? Conference on 17 November 2009. This event is co-sponsored by CENDI, FLICC and NFAIS and will be held at the National Archives. Eric Miller will be presenting on Recollection, a project with the U.S. Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Partner Program (NDIIPP) designed to enhance discoverable access for NDIIPP collections, making them easier to find, access, and share, and especially to integrate with other digital information sources.

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", "updated": "2009-11-17T12:55:36+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#NARA", "title": "Eric Miller to present Recollection at National Archives", "summary": "\n \n Eric Miller will be speaking about Recollection on 17 November, 2009 at the 'The Semantic Web: Fact or Myth?' Conference co-sponsored by CENDI, FLICC and NFAIS and held at the National Archives. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "NARA", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#NARA" }, { "category": [ "digital libraries", "digital archives", "digital preservation", "NDIIPP", "National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program", "linked data", "Library of Congress", "Recollection", "Freemix", "Government Computer News", "GCN", "Laura Campbell" ], "content": "
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\n Government Computer News (GCN) has named the Library of Congress (LoC) National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) as one of the top federal information technology projects of 2009. The award was presented during the annual GCN Annual Awards Gala on October 22.

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GCN gave the award to NDIIPP because of its success in working with universities and libraries to model distributed preservation practices, working with state consortiums to help in the preservation of state government digital information, and working with commercial content providers to develop standards for digital preservation.

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\"We are honored to receive this award,\" said Laura Campbell, associate librarian for strategic initiatives. \"The credit really goes to our excellent network of partners around the country who have worked with us to save valuable digital content and keep it accessible over time. Digital preservation is a challenge that demands new kinds of outreach, engagement and collaboration.\"

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The GCN Awards, now in their 22nd year, embody one of the most sought-after and respected accolades in the government IT community, recognizing federal, state and local government project teams for extraordinary IT accomplishments and significant contributions to the performance of their agencies.

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This award comes quickly on the heels of the recent European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) \"best in show\" award for specific collaboration within the NDIIPP program between LoC and Zepheira. That honor went to Project Recollection, a software platform developed by Zepheira that allows archival communities to easily publish, style, connect and share digital collections on the Web. It is currently in a pilot phase, but has already elicited interest throughout LoC and other government institutions.

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The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared content through a simple web page. In order to explore more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners\u2019 collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira to develop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections.

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", "updated": "2009-11-02T16:22:55+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#NDIIPP_GCN_Award", "title": "Library of Congress NDIIPP named among \u201cGreat Government IT Projects\u201d", "summary": "\n \n The National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program of the US Library of Congress receives a major award for government programs. Zepheira is a leading partner in the NDIIPP program, developing the Recollection platform to showcase the tremendous value of digital information being preserved for current and future generations through NDIIPP. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "NDIIPP_GCN_Award", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#NDIIPP_GCN_Award" }, { "category": [ "Callimachus", "Semantic Web", "David Wood", "James Leigh", "Open Source" ], "content": "
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Zepheira announces Callimachus, an Open Source Software project to allow Semantic Web applications to be easily made by Web authors. Callimachus builds on Mulgara (an established Semantic Web database), Ali Baba (an object-to-RDF mapping technology) and a new generalized, configurable RDF editor. The project will officially launch in December 2009. In the meantime, a slide show is available to preview Callimachus' features.

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Callimachus has been made possible by support from JES & Co., the National Science Foundation and Zepheira.

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", "updated": "2009-11-02T13:58:01+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#Callimachus", "title": "Zepheira Announces Callimachus, Semantic Web Apps Made Easy", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira announces Callimachus, an Open Source Software project to allow Semantic Web applications to be easily made by Web authors. \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "Callimachus", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#Callimachus" }, { "category": [ "ECDL2009", "Digital libraries", "Laura Campbell", "Eric Miller", "Library of Congress", "Recollection", "semantic web" ], "content": "
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Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira co-presented a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009. The project received the \"Best Poster\" award for the conference.

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The presentation highlighted the collaborative work between the Library of Congress and Zepheira on Project Recollection. Project Recollection is a software platform that allows archival communities to easily publish, style, connect and share digital collections on the Web. The initial pilot work is being performed in support of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

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The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared content through a simple web page. In order to explore more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners\u2019 collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira, LLC to develop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections.

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View the session poster and the award posted on the ECDL 2009 site.

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", "updated": "2009-10-18T19:10:28+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ECDL2009BestPoster", "title": "Project Recollection Receives \"Best in Show\" for ECDL Poster Sessions", "summary": "\n \n The Library of Congress began a pilot project in 2009 with Zepheira, LLC to develop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections. The result is a software platform called Recollection. \n Project Recollection was presented by Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives for The Library of Congress, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira at the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries held in Corfu, Greece September 27 - October 2, 2009. The project was awarded \"Best Poster\" for the conference. \n View the session poster and the award posted on the ECDL 2009 site. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Kathy MacDougall" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "ECDL2009BestPoster", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ECDL2009BestPoster" }, { "category": [ "Dublin Core", "DC 2009", "David Wood", "Eric Miller" ], "content": "
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Zepheira partners Eric Miller and David Wood will be speaking at the Dublin Core 2009 Conference in Seoul, Republic of Korea 12-16 October 2009. Tim Berners Lee and Eric Miller will be speaking with Special session on strategic, policy and future issues for linked data. Eric Miller will also be presenting on Recollection, a project with the U.S. Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Partner Program (NDIIPP) designed to enhance discoverable access for NDIIPP collections, making them easier to find, access, and share, and especially to integrate with other digital information sources. Dr. Wood will be introducing Callimachus, a Zepheira project to make Semantic Web applications easier to create. Callimachus is funded by JES & Co. and the National Science Foundation.

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", "updated": "2009-10-14T20:47:52+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#DC2009", "title": "Zepheira Partners to Attend Dublin Core 2009 in Seoul", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira partners Eric Miller and David Wood will be speaking at the Dublin Core 2009 Conference in Seoul, Republic of Korea 12-16 October 2009. \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "DC2009", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#DC2009" }, { "category": [ "ECDL 2009", "European Conference on Digital Libraries", "digital libraries", "digital archives", "digital preservation", "NDIIPP", "National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program", "linked data", "Library of Congress", "Recollection", "Freemix" ], "content": "
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Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira will co-present a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009. The general theme of this year's conference is \"Digital Societies\".

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The presentation will highlight the collaborative work between the Library of Congress and Zepheira on Project Recollection. Project Recollection is a software platform that allows archival communities to easily publish, style, connect and share digital collections on the Web. The initial pilot work is being performed in support of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

\n

The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared content through a simple web page. In order to explore more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners\u2019 collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira, LLC to develop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections.

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See the session poster for more information about Project Recollection.

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", "updated": "2009-09-28T14:56:21+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ECDL2009", "title": "Zepheira and Library of Congress Partner at ECDL 2009", "summary": "\n \n Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira will co-present a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Kathy MacDougall" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "ECDL2009", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ECDL2009" }, { "category": [ "book", "David Wood", "Kathy MacDougall", "James Leigh", "O'Reilly" ], "content": "
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Zepheira team members David Wood and Kathy MacDougall and Zepheira contractor James Leigh contributed ten of the 97 tips found in O'Reilly Media's new book 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know.

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This is a new style of \"collective wisdom\" books from O'Reilly, the first of which was aimed at software architects.

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Tips contributed by David Wood were:

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Clever Code Is Hard To Maintain

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The 60/60 Rule

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The Fallacy Of Perfect Execution

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The Fallacy Of Perfect Knowledge

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The Fallacy Of The Big Round Ball

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The Web Points The Way, For Now

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Tips contributed by Kathy MacDougall were:

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Chart a Course for Change

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Roadmaps: What Have We Done For You Lately?

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Tips contributed by James Leigh were:

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Provide Regular Time to Focus

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Work in Cycles

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Use coupon code ABF09 on O'Reilly's site for a 30% discount when ordering the book.

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", "updated": "2009-08-24T18:21:37+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#97Things", "title": "Zepheira Team Members Contribute to Project Management Book", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira team members David Wood and Kathy MacDougall and Zepheira contractor James Leigh contributed ten of the 97 tips found in O'Reilly Media's new book 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know. \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "97Things", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#97Things" }, { "category": [ "ALA", "Linked Data", "Eric Miller" ], "content": "
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ALA Techsource has published an overview of the American Library Association (ALA) Grassroots Program \"From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0\". The published description of this event:

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'From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0. \u201cHow can library cataloging data be transformed to function within \u2018Web 3.0\u2032 and be understood by non-library web applications? Speakers from both the library and Semantic Web communities will explore the situation in a non-technical manner and describe current work underway to transform legacy library data into linked data.\u201c'

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managed to draw enough interest to pack the room and spill out well into the hallway. Shirley Lincicum has summarized the discussion and provided some fantastic coverage for those unable to attend. In this summary, Shirley cites the synergistic work between the Resource Description and Access (RDA) efforts and those of the Linked Data community. The panel built on this specific synergy as just one example of several that exist between between the Library and Web industries.

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'Linked data is a promising new platform for creating and sharing exactly the type of metadata that catalogers have been creating and managing for decades.... After years of uncertainty and hype, catalogers now have real support to transform they way they work and make ever more valuable contributions to the evolving information space on the Web.'

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", "updated": "2009-08-17T15:49:03+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ALA_Future", "title": "ALA Techsource on Linked Data and Future of Cataloging", "summary": "\n \n ALA Techsource summarizes the American Library Association (ALA) Grassroots Program \"From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0\" and how libraries are starting to look at the future of resource description, management and access. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "ALA_Future", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ALA_Future" }, { "category": [ "ALA", "ALA 2009 Grassroots Program Keynote", "ALA 2009 Annual Conference", "linked data", "Library of Congress", "Recollection", "Eric Miller" ], "content": "
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The American Library Association (ALA) Annual 2009 Conference is a place to learn new techniques that improve library services to in communities. Program topics include blogs, Web presence and making the most of the internet, cultural programs, training and mentoring, advocacy and fundraising, new ways to serve teens and children, cutting edge innovations in technology for library services, and outreach to underserved populations.

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Presentations for the ALA Grassroots 2009 Grassroots Programs are selected by a jury and intended to highlight current issues and key trends of interest to the library community. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be giving the keynote presentation for the Grassroots Program \"From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0\" on July 13th. He will be speaking about using the Web and linked data to connect related information and how this approach is being used by the US Library of Congress' in their new Recollection Platform to provide more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners\u2019 collections.

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", "updated": "2009-08-17T15:48:40+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ALA_Announcement", "title": "Zepheira keynote presentation at ALA Grassroots Program", "summary": "\n \n Eric Miller from Zepheira will be giving the keynote presentation at the American Library Association (ALA) Grassroots Program \"From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0\" on July 13th at the ALA Annual 2009 Conference which will be held July 9-15, 2009 in Chicago, IL. Learn about connecting related data using the Web as a platform and hear how the US Library of Congress is adopting this approach in their new Recollection Platform. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Kathy MacDougall" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "ALA_Announcement", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ALA_Announcement" }, { "category": [ "PURLs", "Linked Data" ], "content": "
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On July 27, 2009 OCLC upgraded their PURL server to a new open source platform built by Zepheira. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. OCLC's upgrade reflects their continued support to provide persistent, stable World Wide Web (WWW) addresses for the international library and education community, government, business, and non-profit organizations, and private citizens. OCLC's PURL server currently resolves approximately two million PURLs per day.

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The new PURL software developed by Zepheira reflects current Web architecture as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This new software provides the ability to permanently identify networked information resources, such as Web documents, as well as non-networked resources such as people, organizations, concepts and scientific data. This capability will represent an important step forward in the practical ability to support \"linked data\" across application, enterprise and community boundaries.

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", "updated": "2009-08-06T15:02:21+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#OCLC-Launches-PURLZ-Server", "title": "OCLC Launches new PURL server built by Zepheira", "summary": "\n \n On July 27, 2009 Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) upgraded their PURL server to a new open source platform built by Zepheira. OCLC's upgrade reflects their continued support to provide persistent, stable World Wide Web (WWW) addresses for the international library and education community, government, business, and non-profit organizations, and private citizens. OCLC's PURL server currently resolves approximately two million PURLs per day. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "OCLC-Launches-PURLZ-Server", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#OCLC-Launches-PURLZ-Server" }, { "category": [ "SemTech 2009", "Semantic Technologies Conference", "future of the Web", "PURL", "mashups", "enterprise mashups", "linked data", "enterprise linked data", "Wilshire Conferences", "Freemix" ], "content": "
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The Semantic Technology Conference is the premier semantic technologies event held every year in June in San Jose CA. SemTech is the place where the industry comes together for four days of tutorials, workshops and talks on the future of the Web, marketing, search and discovery. The event is run by Wilshire Conferences which has a reputation of running some of the best conferences in the industry related to the trends in data management and associated technologies. Another Wilshire conference to look for each year is Enterprise Data World.

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In summary, this year's conference was a big success. Why? First, conference attendance grew in a year where the economy has caused many conferences to falter. In addition, while in years past an undercurrent of questions about whether semantic technologies were \"ready for primetime\" seemed to linger, this year was different. This year the lingering questions were less about \"if\" and more about \"how\". There to answer such questions and announce major investments in the space were the three major search engine companies: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft.

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The expo held more booths this year and there was a constant flow of people wanting to find out more about the tools available to support implementation of semantic technologies. There were even tools that allow the average non-technical user to participate in the Semantic Web such as Zepheira's Freemix and Cambridge Semantics Anzo.

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Open data was a recurring theme. More and more organizations are making their data open and available, encouraging its linkage to other data sets. An announcement by the New York Times about the NYT Annotated Corpus and the NYT Index being released to the \"Linked Data Cloud\" generated a great deal of buzz in this regard.

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Finally, the upward trend in practical use cases continued. One example was Chime Ogbuji's talk about his work at Cleveland Clinic to create a clinical informatics framework improve the Clinic\u2019s ability to use patient data for generating new knowledge and improve future patient care. Another example was the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) discussion on their launch of an ontology and associated services to manage, exchange and integrate geopolitical information at corporate level and with international partners.

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There's still a long way to go to provide friendly ways for the average user to participate and to help organizations understand the benefits and where and how these technologies should be used. From the momentum gained over the course of the past year, it's a good bet that we will see a lot more on this front at next year's conference.

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\n Dates for next year's conference have been posted.

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", "updated": "2009-08-03T23:12:44+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#STC2009-Zepheira-Recap", "title": "Reflections on SemTech 2009", "summary": "\n \n The 2009 Semantic Technologies Conference was held in San Jose the week of June 15, 2009 and proved to be a showcase of market trends in the use of semantic technologies. Each year the conference has grown in number of use cases demonstrating real-world application of these technologies and this year was no different. In addition, the number of vendors offering solutions grew, providing implementers a wide variety of options. Attendance and exciting announcements from Google, Microsoft, Siri, the New York Times, Zepheira, and others rounded out another successful year of the conference. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Kathy MacDougall" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "STC2009-Zepheira-Recap", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#STC2009-Zepheira-Recap" }, { "category": [ "Freemix", "Freemix Use Case", "Leigh Dodds", "Talis", "BBC", "NASA" ], "content": "
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Leigh Dodds performs an evaluation of the new Freemix service launched by Zepheira in June. Leigh found Freemix to be one of the most interesting applications shown at SemTech 2009 and he was curious to know whether Freemix could be used to build presentations of Linked Data.

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To perform this experiment, he feeds both BBC data and NASA space flight data to Freemix from the Talis Platform. He explores the options for extracting data using a SPARQL query in order to build a presentation in Freemix.

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The result? \"It turns out its really easy.\" Leigh's Talis blog shows the results of this step by step evaluation.

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", "updated": "2009-07-27T22:51:31+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#FreemixBBCUseCase", "title": "Freemix Use Case: BBC and NASA Data Using Freemix and SPARQL", "summary": "\n \n Leigh Dodds of Talis evaluates use of Freemix by loading data from the Talis platform using SPARQL queries to extract data sets for BBC and space flight data. He provides a step by step evaluation of the process with instructions. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Kathy MacDougall" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "FreemixBBCUseCase", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#FreemixBBCUseCase" }, { "category": [ "EISWT", "conference", "David Wood", "David Feeney", "publication" ], "content": "
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Zepheira team members James Leigh (contractor), David Wood and David Feeney and customer Gene Oates have had a paper accepted for the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies. The paper, entitled A Semantic Object-Oriented Rules Approach for Trusted B2B Exchange, will be presented in Orlando, Florida during July 13-16 2009 and published in the subsequent conference proceedings.

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", "updated": "2009-06-29T20:31:14+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#EISWT-09_paper", "title": "'A Semantic Object-Oriented Rules Approach for Trusted B2B Exchange'' at EISWT '09", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira team members James Leigh (contractor), David Wood and David Feeney and customer Gene Oates have had a paper accepted for the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies. The paper, entitled A Semantic Object-Oriented Rules Approach for Trusted B2B Exchange, will be presented in Orlando, Florida during July 13-16 2009 and published in the subsequent conference proceedings. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji", "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "EISWT-09_paper", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#EISWT-09_paper" }, { "category": [ "Freemix", "SemTech", "Social media" ], "content": "
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\n Zepheira is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Freemix, a social networking site for data and the people who use it. Freemix will be officially launched at the Semantic Technologies Conference in San Jose, California on June 16, 2009.

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Zepheira's CEO Bernadette Hyland and David Wood, Partner, will brief representatives of the press at 12:00 US Pacific Time in the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Zepheira will demonstrate Freemix at booth #108 on the SemTech 2009 exhibit floor.

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\n SemTech conference attendees may also attend a briefing on Freemix on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 from 5:00-6:00 PM US PST.

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If you are a spreadsheet user and want to share your data more widely, Freemix is for you. Wouldn't it be nice if your data had friends, too?

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", "updated": "2009-06-16T04:31:58+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#AnnouncingFreemix", "title": "Freemix Planned to Launch at Semantic Technology Conference 2009", "summary": "\n \n \n Zepheira is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of \n Freemix\n , a social networking site for data and the people who use it. Freemix will be officially launched at the Semantic Technologies Conference in San Jose, California on June 16, 2009. \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "AnnouncingFreemix", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#AnnouncingFreemix" }, { "category": [ "Freemix", "Zepheira", "social networking", "social network for data", "data sharing", "Semantic Technology Conference", "SemTech2009" ], "content": "
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Mon Jun 15, 3:01 am ET

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A new semantic web technology platform that enables data collaboration via the Web. Freemix is a free social networking site for wrapping, exposing and sharing data. This invitational beta allows you to rapidly upload data, visualize and share it on the Web, providing quantum leaps in speed, efficiencies and cost reduction in comparison to traditional data management strategies.

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San Jose, CA June 15, 2009 -- Zepheira\u2122, a leading global provider of semantic web technology services for accelerating the integration and understanding of complex information, today announced the availability of Freemix\u2122 for invitational beta. Freemix is a new and innovative platform that allows users to slice, show and share data via the Web. The announcement was made at the Semantic Technology 2009 Conference, the industry's largest conference on semantic technologies.

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\n Freemix is a free social networking site for wrapping, exposing and sharing data. The invitational beta of Freemix allows you to rapidly upload data, visualize and share it on the Web, providing quantum leaps in speed, efficiencies and cost reduction in comparison to traditional data management strategies. Over the past year, there has been increasing attention to the critical need for easy ways to quickly wrap and expose both local content and an increasing amount of open data. The ability to rapidly add, visualize and share data is driving the next generation of successful organizations delivering products and services online.

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Freemix is a platform to assist people in sharing information which is the foundation of online communities. Provided on demand as a software-as-a-service offering, Freemix provides easy access to a suite of Web 3.0 tools and a highly-customizable user interface for improved visualization and analysis.

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David Wood, Partner and co-founder of Zepheira, stated \"this new service lowers the barriers for sharing data on the Web and will enable the widespread use of semantic web technologies. With Freemix, you can now point at data, perform powerful transformations, create metadata and in minutes create a compelling Web-based user interface.\" An entrepreneur and multidisciplinary engineer, Dr. Wood has been involved with the development of Semantic Web standards, tools, products and services since 1999.

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About Zepheira Zepheira is a leading global provider of semantic technology services that accelerate the integration and understanding of complex information. Zepheira is able to uniquely identify patterns and relationships inherent in content, transforming and unlocking the full potential of data for collaboration and social computing. Recognized Zepheira customers include The Library of Congress, Elsevier, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Sun Microsystems, Dow Jones, Thomson Reuters and OCLC. Visit Zepheira at .

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About Freemix Freemix is the social networking site for data and the people who use it, allowing users to slice, show and share content via the Web. Accessed on demand, Freemix is publicly-available and promotes the analysis, remixing and sharing of data. With Freemix, users visualize content in previously unimagined ways while simultaneously experiencing efficiencies and cost reduction in comparison to alternative data management strategies. Wouldn't it be nice if your data had friends too? Access Freemix at http://freemix.it.

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Media Contact: Bernadette Hyland, CEO Zepheira contact@freemix.it 571-331-3758 (direct)

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Freemix is a service offering of Zepheira LLC.

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", "updated": "2009-06-16T04:12:34+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#Freemix-Announcement-2009June16", "title": "Zepheira Announces Freemix New Social Networking Site for Data Sharing", "summary": "\n \n A new semantic web technology platform that enables data collaboration via the Web. Freemix is a free social networking site for wrapping, exposing and sharing data. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Bernadette Hyland" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "Freemix-Announcement-2009June16", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#Freemix-Announcement-2009June16" }, { "category": [ "PricewaterhouseCoopers", "PWC", "Technology Forecast", "semantic technology", "enterprise" ], "content": "
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The Spring 2009 issue of PricewaterhouseCoopers's Technology Forecast focuses on semantic technology. It features an interview with Zepheira partner Uche Ogbuji and highlights Zepheira's overall contributions. In the interview, 'From folksonomies to ontologies', Mr. Ogbuji discusses how early adopters are introducing Semantic Web to the enterprise, '[describing] department-level Linked Data initiatives and how grassroots efforts can lead to companywide successes'. He focuses on the balance of technical and social matters within the firewall, and overall on pragmatics rather than technological purity.

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'What we typically do on an engagement is try to capture what I would call schematic information, which is information about what relates to what. They\u2019re deceptively simple links between entities in one silo and entities in another silo, so we\u2019re not talking about a huge, formal, scientific, top-down modeling exercise. We\u2019re talking about links that are almost at the level of social tagging, almost at the folksonomy level.

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'We\u2019ve found that when you provide a basis for people to say that this entity, this sort of information in this silo relates to this other sort of information in this silo, then the people who are involved fill in the nooks and crannies. You don\u2019t have to have this huge engineering effort to try to force a shared model between them.

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'So I think the benefit that department heads get from something like Semantic Web technology is that it\u2019s designed to go from very slim threads and very slim connections, and then have those strengthened over time through human intervention. There\u2019s a large social element in building shared models, and once you have built those shared models, you have the social benefit of having people enfranchised in it. Some organizations had a situation where trying to do data governance was warfare, because of the competing initiatives. Now you have given people the capability to do it piecemeal collaboratively, and you have less of the warfare and more of the cooperation aspect, which improves the system that they\u2019re developing.'

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\u2014Uche Ogbuji, 'From folksonomies to ontologies', PricewaterhouseCoopers's Technology Forecast, Spring 2009

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Mr. Ogbuji also led an internal PWC webcast on this topic May 28th.

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", "updated": "2009-05-29T15:12:57+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#PWC_Webcast", "title": "Uche Ogbuji and Zepheira featured in PWC Technology Forecast Spring 2009", "summary": "\n \n The Spring 2009 issue of PricewaterhouseCoopers's Technology Forecast focuses on semantic technology. It features an interview with Zepheira partner Uche Ogbuji and highlights Zepheira's overall contributions. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "PWC_Webcast", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#PWC_Webcast" }, { "category": [ "SemTech 2009", "Semantic Technologies Conference", "future of the Web", "PURL", "mashups", "enterprise mashups", "linked data", "enterprise linked data", "David Wood", "Uche Ogbuji", "Eric Miller", "Kathy MacDougall" ], "content": "
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\n SemTech 2009 is the premier semantic technologies event held in San Jose CA the week of June 15, 2009. SemTech 2009 is where the industry comes together for four days of tutorials, workshops and talks on the future of the Web, marketing, search and discovery. Tracks for Web developers, business managers and VCs are offered including: Data Integration and Mashups, Linked Data, Semantic Integration, and Semantic SOA.

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Please join Zepheira who will be leading tutorials on Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (Uche Ogbuji) and Entity Extraction (David Wood and Dan McCreary) on Monday. Followed by Enterprise Mashups (Eric Miller, Kathy MacDougall), Active PURLs: Stored Procedures for the Semantic Web (David Wood) and other talks on Linked Data, Publishing, Semantic Advertising & Marketing, and Semantic Case Studies and Web 3.0.

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For details on the speakers and talks, please see the SemTech2009 scheduler using faceted search, see

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", "updated": "2009-05-18T15:07:42+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#STC2009-Zepheira", "title": "Zepheira at Industry's Largest Semantic Technologies Event", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira will be speaking on market trends and real world applications of semantic technologies at the premier event for semantic technologies the week of June 15, 2009 in San Jose. See first hand how development tools and platforms are making it easier than ever to leverage the power of semantics. Detailed case studies relevant to US government agencies including the US Library of Congress, and major publishers, pharmaceutical companies and many more will be described in detail by Zepheira's team of experts in this space. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Bernadette Hyland" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "STC2009-Zepheira", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#STC2009-Zepheira" }, { "category": [ "Enterprise Data World 2009", "enterprise data management", "semantic technologies", "websheets", "data integration" ], "content": "
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Zepheira partners Eric Miller, Uche Ogbuji, and David Wood were speakers at Wilshire's Enterprise Data World conference held in Tampa, FL from April 5-9, 2009.

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David Wood was a panel member of Issues Forum: Opportunities for Semantic Technologies within Enterprise Data Management along with Tony Shaw, Wilshire Conferences, Inc., Kevin Lynch, Central Intelligence Agency, and Sanjiva Nath, zAgile. This forum was designed to bridge the gap in understanding and start the conversation to build meaningful partnerships between enterprise customers and semantic developers.

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Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji presented Websheets - Web-based Data Integration of Spreadsheets, a discussion and demonstration of practical tools for integrating spreadsheets into unified but flexible information management systems published via the Web. (View presentation)

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For abstracts of these sessions see the Enterprise Data World 2009 Agenda At-A-Glance

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", "updated": "2009-04-20T15:13:53+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#EISWT", "title": "Enterprise Data World (April 5-9, 2009)", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira partners Eric Miller, Uche Ogbuji, and David Wood were speakers at Wilshire's Enterprise Data World conference held in Tampa, FL from April 5-9, 2009 \n \n ", "authors": [ "Kathy MacDougall", "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "EISWT", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#EISWT" }, { "category": [ "PURLs" ], "content": "
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PURL Server version 1.5 has been released and is recommended for all PURL server operators.

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Version 1.5 of the PURL server subtly changes the relationship between PURLs and domains to better support legacy PURLs. Domains may now be created that contain PURLs of the same name (that is, a PURL with a name corresponding to an empty string or a '/' character).

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PURLs may now be created with names that differ only by a trailing '/' (e.g. /net/foo and /net/foo/).

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These features were added in support legacy PURL migration. Naming new PURLs with these patterns is not encouraged.

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No reported bugs were addressed in this release. However, some additional URL-encoding of form elements was added to the Web user interface to better support special characters.

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PURL Server version 1.5 is available from:

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Please see also the README:

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and Release Notes:

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", "updated": "2009-03-31T17:54:57+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#PURL-Server-1.5-Released", "title": "PURL Server version 1.5 Released", "summary": "\n \n PURL Server version 1.5 has been released and is recommended for all PURL server operators. \n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "PURL-Server-1.5-Released", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#PURL-Server-1.5-Released" }, { "category": [ "Library of Congress", "Digital Preservation", "Recollection", "Semantic Web", "Zepheira" ], "content": "
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The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is an effort funded by the US Library of Congress to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content for current and future generations. It is based on an understanding that digital stewardship on a national scale depends on active cooperation between communities in public and private sectors. The Library has built a preservation network of over 130 partners from across the nation to tackle the challenge, and is working with them on a wide spectrum of initiatives including collections of historical, scientific, cartographical, media, legislative and sociological materials.

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Such digital content grows in value exponentially as it is integrated and interconnected. The Library is collaborating with Zepheira to develop a pilot platform (codename Recollection) to allow communities of interest to interconnect their information. The pilot platform will use semantic technologies to enhance discoverable access for NDIIPP collections, making them easier to find, access, and share, and especially to integrate with other digital information sources. The resulting platform will enable third-party applications developed by private or public organizations as well as interested individuals to support education, research, policy analysis and other completely unforeseen uses. Zepheira is developing the framework to identify, locate and reuse information in NDIIPP collections, and an open interface for third parties, to plug services and applications into that framework. Zepheira is a leading global provider of services applying Semantic technology and Web architecture to problems of information integration, especially to support collaboration and social computing.

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", "updated": "2009-03-24T13:05:00+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LC_Recollection", "title": "Project Recollection - Linking America's Memory", "summary": "\n \n The Library of Congress is collaborating with Zepheira to develop a pilot platform to allow communities of interest to interconnect their information. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji", "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "LC_Recollection", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LC_Recollection" }, { "category": [ "David Wood", "Wilshire", "Enterprise", "Data" ], "content": "
On April 8th Zepheira partner\n\n David Wood\n\nwill be participating in a 90-minute discussion between semantics and data management professionals aimed at sharing expertise and starting the conversation between these two communities at\n\n Enterprise Data World\n\nin Tampa, Florida.\n\nYou can find the\n\n full conference schedule\n\nand\n\n registration information\n\nat the Enterprise Data World site.\n
", "updated": "2009-03-03T11:50:21Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#2f0557d0-f332-508a-926b-678aed6c39e0", "title": "David Wood Invited to a Panel at Enterprise Data World", "summary": "\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "2f0557d0-f332-508a-926b-678aed6c39e0", "label": "urn:uuid:2f0557d0-f332-508a-926b-678aed6c39e0" }, { "category": [ "PURLs" ], "content": "
The PURLZ Persistent URL Server version 1.4 is now available. See the PURLZ\n\n Downloads\n\narea to get your copy now. This release improves handling of URLs with query strings and special characters. It is recommended for immediate use by all PURL server operators.\n\nPURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. This capability provides continuity of references to network resources that may migrate from machine to machine for business, social or technical reasons. Details are available on the\n\n PURLZ community site\n\n.\n\nPlease see also the\n\n README\n\nand\n\n Release Notes\n\nfor version 1.4.\n
", "updated": "2009-03-03T11:43:18Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#e9f0e2f8-e57b-5353-b371-135d6203c159", "title": "Persistent URL (PURL) Server version 1.4 Released", "summary": "\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "e9f0e2f8-e57b-5353-b371-135d6203c159", "label": "urn:uuid:e9f0e2f8-e57b-5353-b371-135d6203c159" }, { "category": [ "PURLs" ], "content": "
A legacy loader is available to take old OCLC version 1 Persistent URL (PURL) database dumps and upload PURLs into the\n\n new project\n\n\u2019s RESTful API. This is not production code, but is provided in the hope that it may be useful to operators of old PURL servers wishing to migrate to a more modern PURL server. The legacy loader has been released under an\n\n Apache 2.0\n\nlicense.\n\nTo get the legacy loader, use Subversion to check it out like this:\n
\n svn co http://purlz.zepheira.com/svn/purlz/purlsbulkloader\n
\nCheck out the code and follow the directions in the file README.txt.\n\nThis information is also available at the\n\n PURL Project's Download Area\n\n.\n
", "updated": "2009-03-03T11:42:27Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#dcbd30cc-7e4c-5f01-980e-306dec725101", "title": "PURL Legacy Loader Now Open Source", "summary": "\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "dcbd30cc-7e4c-5f01-980e-306dec725101", "label": "urn:uuid:dcbd30cc-7e4c-5f01-980e-306dec725101" }, { "category": [ "media", "government", "Library of Congress", "Digital Preservation" ], "content": "
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Laura Campbell, chief information officer of the US Library of Congress, is featured in \"Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot\", a segment on the CBS Sunday Morning television program, March 1, 2009. In the program David Pogue reported on the dangers of data loss--\"what happens when technological progress leaves your most precious memories and recordings behind.\" He also interviewed experts on digital preservation, including the discussion with Campbell, regarding the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.

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NDIIPP is an effort funded by by The Library to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content for current and future generations. Zepheira is launching a joint project with the NDIIPP program to showcase the tremendous value of digital information being preserved for current and future generations.

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As noted in the program, since the early '90s, Campbell has overseen the Library's contribution to NDIIPP, a multimillion-dollar effort to digitize the most precious holdings, both to preserve them and to make them available to the public on the Internet. She said:

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\"Well, really, what we're trying to do is to save our collective memory, to be able to pass on human record of our time\"

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Among The Library's holdings are the world's largest collection of movies and recorded sound, as well as 56 million manuscripts, six million maps, and a million and a half rare books, which helps explain Campbell's keen interest in preservation. Some of this material, in digitized form, will become more readily accessible through Zepheira's contribution of an open data and services framework.

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", "updated": "2009-03-02T16:19:12+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LC_on_CBS", "title": "Library of Congress digital preservation initiatives showcased on CBS television program", "summary": "\n \n Laura Campbell, chief information officer of the US Library of Congress, is featured in \"Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot\", a segment on the CBS Sunday Morning television program, March 1, 2009. Campbell was interviewed regarding the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, an effort funded by by The Library to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content for current and future generations. Zepheira is launching a joint project with the NDIIPP program to showcase the tremendous value of digital information being preserved for current and future generations. \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "LC_on_CBS", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#LC_on_CBS" }, { "category": [ "Web 2.0", "Semantic Web" ], "content": "
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Uche Ogbuji discusses how Semantic technologies are key for information management professional to realize the much-hyped benefits of \"Web 2.0\" as part of a panel at the Society for Information Management meeting on Tuesday February 17, 2009. The panel discussion, entitled \"Web 2.0 \u2013 The Paradigm Shift\" is part of the SIM series on \"Emerging and Converging Technologies\". Other participants on the panel include JB Holston, CEO and President of Newsgator and Kristen Harris, Director of Web Content Engineering at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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", "updated": "2009-03-02T15:39:50+00:00", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#SIM-Denver-Dinner", "title": "Uche Ogbuji invited to contribute on theme: \"Web 2.0 \u2013 The Paradigm Shift\"", "summary": "\n \n Uche Ogbuji discusses how Semantic technologies are key for information management professional to realize the much-hyped benefits of \"Web 2.0\". The occasion is the Society for Information Management meeting on Tuesday February 17, 2009, with the theme \"Web 2.0 \u2013 The Paradigm Shift\". \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "SIM-Denver-Dinner", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#SIM-Denver-Dinner" }, { "category": [ "Mulgara" ], "content": "
\n \n Revelytix, Inc.\n\nannounced the incorporation of the\n\n Mulgara RDF triple store\n\ninto\n\n Knoodl.com\n\n, along with Krule, a rules engine that is built into Mulgara. Zepheira partner\n\n David Wood\n\n, a co-founder of the Mulgara project, was quoted as saying, \"The Mulgara Semantic Store community welcomes Revelytix to its group of production users and appreciates Revelytix's contributions to Mulgara's Open Source code base. The Mulgara community is pleased to support Revelytix and Knoodl.\"\n\nPlease see the entire\n\n Revelytix announcement\n\n.\n
", "updated": "2009-02-08T08:49:53Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#b7d66d75-1a90-52b7-9864-5fd4e7d8a451", "title": "Revelytix Announces Mulgara Support in Knoodl", "summary": "\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "b7d66d75-1a90-52b7-9864-5fd4e7d8a451", "label": "urn:uuid:b7d66d75-1a90-52b7-9864-5fd4e7d8a451" }, { "category": [ "Library", "Library of Congress", "Metadata", "LCSH", "Linked Data" ], "content": "
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\n In last 2008, The\n \n U.S. Library of Congress\n \n requested the take-down of linked, open data services for Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) at the popular site \"lcsh.info\". This caused some consternation in the Web architecture community, and the agency has made an announcement of a forthcoming, official linked data service at\n \n ID.LOC.GOV\n \n .\n

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\n Zepheira is presently kicking off work with LC to continue in this spirit of open content and data through open services. We expect ID.LOC.GOV to be an important complement to this effort.\n

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", "updated": "2009-01-26T10:31:07Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#754d5208-f6de-57ee-b036-8832f1f16502", "title": "Library of Congress announces forthcoming ID service", "summary": "\n The U.S. Library of Congress is making affirmative moves towards closing a hole left when it forbade the unofficial \"lcsh.info\" site from offering linked data on Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). They have announced a forthcoming, official service covering this data and more at\n\n ID.LOC.GOV\n\n.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "754d5208-f6de-57ee-b036-8832f1f16502", "label": "urn:uuid:754d5208-f6de-57ee-b036-8832f1f16502" }, { "category": [ "PURLs" ], "content": "
The PURLZ Persistent URL Server version 1.2 is now available. See the PURLZ\n\n Downloads\n\narea to get your copy now. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. This capability provides continuity of references to network resources that may migrate from machine to machine for business, social or technical reasons. Details are available on the\n\n PURLZ community\n\nsite.\n
", "updated": "2009-01-21T07:07:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#90837e3d-6ff2-5dd6-8fb9-a86894e3ee89", "title": "Persistent URL (PURL) Server version 1.3 Released", "summary": "\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "90837e3d-6ff2-5dd6-8fb9-a86894e3ee89", "label": "urn:uuid:90837e3d-6ff2-5dd6-8fb9-a86894e3ee89" }, { "category": [ "" ], "content": "
Zepheira President Eric Miller has been invited to present a session and participate in the closing keynote panel at the 2009 edition of the Enterprise Data World conference in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Miller will conduct a session, \"\n\n Websheets - Web-based Data Integration of Spreadsheets\n\n\" on 7 April, then will participate on the closing keynote panel entitled \"\n\n Data Management\u2019s Next Big Thing!\n\n\" on 9 April. For more details see the\n\n conference web site\n\n.\n
", "updated": "2008-12-22T09:50:51Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#54567ef1-80db-55b4-a427-ee960464a7cf", "title": "Zepheira President Eric Miller to present at Enterprise Data World, April 2009", "summary": "\n Enterprise Data World is the business world\u2019s most authoritative vendor-neutral educational event about data and information management. At the 2009 edition of this popular conference, Eric Miller will present a session on Websheets, and will participate on the closing keynote panel entitled \"Data Management\u2019s Next Big Thing!\".\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "54567ef1-80db-55b4-a427-ee960464a7cf", "label": "urn:uuid:54567ef1-80db-55b4-a427-ee960464a7cf" }, { "category": [ "Eric Miller", "Uche Ogbuji", "Semantic Web", "Enterprise", "Data" ], "content": "
\n

\n On April 7th Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji will be presenting \"Websheets - Web-based Data Integration\n
\n of Spreadsheets\" at\n \n Enterprise Data World\n \n in Tampa, Florida.\n
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\n Here is the abstract of the presentation:\n

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\n Spreadsheets. We can't live with them. We can't live without them. More importantly, the people who run our lines of business can't live without them. We want an overall, integrated picture of enterprise information, but many things get in the way, and spreadsheets are often the largest blockers. This doesn't have to be the case. A spreadsheet just represents a local point of view, a local concern. We should embrace this reality, and work to integrate it into our centralized information plans, rather than acting at cross-purposes to real users. Luckily, we can harness the power of the greatest integration platform ever: The Web. This presentation is a discussion and demonstration of practical tools for integrating spreadsheets into unified but flexible information management systems. Importantly, it covers techniques for monitoring and reporting on trends and patterns in the use of such systems, so that you can offer users the carrot of better collaboration, and less duplication of work, while using the dashboard results of spreadsheet usage to design your enterprise information systems around actual user needs and user patterns. Learn how to gain the benefits of master data management without disenfranchising the most important users.\n

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\n You can find the\n \n full conference schedule\n \n and\n \n registration information\n \n at the Enterprise Data World site.\n

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", "updated": "2008-12-01T14:52:04Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#08d7bc0f-fa78-53db-9f5c-f9edfcfa111d", "title": "Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji to speak at Enterprise Data World", "summary": "\n On April 7th Zepheira partners\n\n Eric Miller\n\nand\n\n Uche Ogbuji\n\nwill be presenting \"Websheets - Web-based Data Integration of Spreadsheets\" at\n\n Enterprise Data World in Tampa, Florida\n\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "08d7bc0f-fa78-53db-9f5c-f9edfcfa111d", "label": "urn:uuid:08d7bc0f-fa78-53db-9f5c-f9edfcfa111d" }, { "category": [ "ROA", "NetKernel" ], "content": "
\n

\n The 2008 \n NetKernel Architects Conference was held 25-27 September 2008 at the\n \n University of Mary Washington\n \n , in Fredericksburg, VA.\n \n 1060 Research\n \n has provided\n \n videos and slides\n \n of the conference presentations.\n

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\n Presentations include both high and low level overviews of the architecture and features of the upcoming NetKernel 4.\n

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", "updated": "2008-11-24T15:51:40Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#16156db5-120b-5bfe-9b27-d47c61588bd5", "title": "NetKernel Architects Conference Presentation Videos and Slides Available", "summary": "\n \n \n 1060 Research\n\nhas provided\n\n videos and slides\n\nof the presentations from the 2008 NetKernel Architects Conference.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "16156db5-120b-5bfe-9b27-d47c61588bd5", "label": "urn:uuid:16156db5-120b-5bfe-9b27-d47c61588bd5" }, { "category": [ "PURLZ", "Identifiers" ], "content": "
\n

\n The PURLZ Persistent URL Server version 1.2 is now available. See the PURLZ\n \n Downloads\n \n area to get your copy now. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. This capability provides continuity of references to network resources that may migrate from machine to machine for business, social or technical reasons. Source code\n \n documentation\n \n for this distribution is available as well. Join the\n \n community\n \n to help shape the next phase of this work.\n

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", "updated": "2008-11-17T08:51:04Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#0e98c9f6-4270-5786-8a4d-c717adb62301", "title": "PURLZ Server version 1.2 released.", "summary": "\n PURLZ Persistent URL Server version 1.2 released.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "0e98c9f6-4270-5786-8a4d-c717adb62301", "label": "urn:uuid:0e98c9f6-4270-5786-8a4d-c717adb62301" }, { "category": [ "CSC", "Remix", "PURLs" ], "content": "
\n

\n Computer Sciences Corporation (\n \n CSC\n \n ) has released their landmark new report,\n \n Digital Disruptions: Technology Innovations Powering 21st Century Business\n \n . CSC's\n \n announcement\n \n and the entire 94-page, 7.5 MB\n \n report\n \n (PDF) are available on the Web. Zepheira's work on the re-architecture and re-implementation of Persistent URLs (\n \n PURLs\n \n ) and subsequent release of the source code as an\n \n Open Source project and community\n \n were highlighted on pages 74 and 75 of the report. Zepheira's Project Remix was also mentioned. Zepheira is pleased to see its work on next-generation Internet infrastructure acknowledged by CSC.\n

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", "updated": "2008-10-23T20:40:06Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#82004ec3-4e99-54cb-b511-efdeba4e3f42", "title": "CSC Releases Digital Disruptions Report; Names Zepheira", "summary": "\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "82004ec3-4e99-54cb-b511-efdeba4e3f42", "label": "urn:uuid:82004ec3-4e99-54cb-b511-efdeba4e3f42" }, { "category": [ "Sesame", "Mulgara", "RDF" ], "content": "
The Sesame RDF framework Release 2.2.1 is now available. This is the first stable release of the Sesame/Mulgara integration. Users of RDF databases now have a single API to use from tiny in-memory stores to enterprise-sized databases backed with Mulgara. For more information and to download Sesame with Mulgara, please go to\n\n http://www.openrdf.org/\n\n. This release includes Mulgara Sail version 2.2.1.\n
", "updated": "2008-10-23T20:27:30Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#1b0ad890-a929-5bd0-8ed0-b547cecc9a53", "title": "Sesame with Mulgara Now Stable", "summary": "\n The\n\n Sesame RDF framework\n\nRelease 2.2.1 is now available, and supports the high-performance Mulgara RDF DBMS.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "1b0ad890-a929-5bd0-8ed0-b547cecc9a53", "label": "urn:uuid:1b0ad890-a929-5bd0-8ed0-b547cecc9a53" }, { "category": [ "Mulgara", "sparql" ], "content": "
As one of the first scalable RDF Semantic Stores,\n\n Mulgara\n\nhas had a very capable query language called TQL. The Mulgara project added programmatic support for SPARQL earlier this year, but the\n\n 2.0.6. release\n\nhas just added support for the\n\n SPARQL Protocol\n\nwith results retrievable as either JSON or XML. It also now does auto-detection between SPARQL and TQL through the web user interface.\n\nAdditional new features include faster data loads, improved backup and restore functionality, an HTTP endpoint for TQL as well as some important bug fixes. More information can be found\n\n here\n\n.\n
", "updated": "2008-10-20T14:49:08Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#501276f3-e02d-507e-bbe4-d0eae5029b4c", "title": "Mulgara 2.0.6. Release Extends SPARQL Support", "summary": "\n The\n\n Mulgara Semantic Store\n\nproject has released a new version (\n\n 2.0.6\n\n) including support for the\n\n SPARQL Protocol\n\n, SPARQL through the web interface as well as some important data load performance fixes.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "501276f3-e02d-507e-bbe4-d0eae5029b4c", "label": "urn:uuid:501276f3-e02d-507e-bbe4-d0eae5029b4c" }, { "category": [ "RDFa", "W3C", "Semantic Web" ], "content": "
The\n\n W3C\n\nand its members have long sought the ability to mix extractable structured content with existing publishing processes to improve the machine-processability of the Web.\n\n Microformats\n\nhave been a successful step in this direction, but the models embraced by the domain-specific formats are not global or interoperable. The rich layers of the Semantic Web initiative have not easily been integrated until now allowing documents to indicate metadata that can be expressed in the\n\n Resource Description Framework (RDF)\n\nmodel. Publishers now have a low-effort semantic markup capability that client tools will begin to harvest as a natural part of the browsing process. No longer will \"where on the Web\" and \"when\" be the only extracted information from browsing sessions, but also \"who authored the pages\" and \"where are they about\" and \"what content can be reused based on the license\". The RDFa initiative grew out of the\n\n Creative Commons\n\nefforts to express license metadata about published content but grew to support a wider set of use cases.\n\nFor more information, see the\n\n RDFa specification\n\nor the\n\n RDFa Primer\n\nwhich has also been updated.\n
", "updated": "2008-10-17T18:58:03Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#b145ab19-2ea5-56fa-b9ec-baa9cfb1a116", "title": "RDFa Reaches W3C Recommendation Status", "summary": "\n The\n\n Semantic Web Deployment Working Group\n\nand\n\n XHTML2 Working Group\n\nhave announced that\n\n RDFa in XHTML : Syntax and Processing\n\nspecification has reached\n\n W3C\n\nRecommendation status. This is an important step toward advancing the application of structured data and metadata to the Web publishing and browsing experiences.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "b145ab19-2ea5-56fa-b9ec-baa9cfb1a116", "label": "urn:uuid:b145ab19-2ea5-56fa-b9ec-baa9cfb1a116" }, { "category": [ "Uche Ogbuji", "Semantic Web", "Presentation", "Teleconference", "Mashup" ], "content": "
\n

\n On November 20th Uche Ogbuji will be presenting \"An enterprise roadmap for semantic\n
\n technology\" in a\n \n free teleconference seminar series led by Earley and\n
\n Associates\n \n . Here is the abstract of the presentation:\n

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\n Industry experts have been awakening recently to the exceptional power of the Web to integrate information systems, and how it should be applied within the enterprise. You've heard of Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Mashups and the like. These are generally shallow attempts to translate Web concepts to traditional IT. It is important not to miss the key ingredient for successfully harnessing the power of Web architecture--semantic technology. We all know the power of the Web comes with chaos--wide-ranging workflow conventions, malware and more. Semantic technology adapts traditional business analysis and enterprise architecture to temper the chaos without losing the power.\n

\n

\n This session connects the prevailing industry trend towards Semantic technology to the characteristics of enterprises, giving you tools for assessing your organization's readiness, and determining the best launch points. It's a practical guide using specific case studies to help you get started using semantic technology to finally reconcile information technology with business imperatives, and to save costs and avoid failures in architecture and integration projects.\n

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\n You can find a\n \n little more information here on the series\n \n , including how to attend.\n \n

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", "updated": "2008-10-13T11:26:56Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#c1085824-5822-56c7-a0de-6192f60c68e6", "title": "Free conference call series on semantic technology in the enterprise to feature Uche Ogbuji", "summary": "\n On November 20th Zepheira partner\n\n Uche Ogbuji\n\nwill be presenting \"An enterprise roadmap for semantic technology\" in a\n\n free teleconference seminar series led by Earley and Associates\n\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "c1085824-5822-56c7-a0de-6192f60c68e6", "label": "urn:uuid:c1085824-5822-56c7-a0de-6192f60c68e6" }, { "category": [ "Eric Miller", "Conference", "XML" ], "content": "
\n

\n Zepheira's President\n \n Eric Miller\n \n will be giving the keynote at\n \n XML Holland 2008\n \n , with the theme of \"Semantics and interoperability\". From the conference page:\n

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\n Many organizations needing to exchange information and knowledge with each other question how they can support such connectivity from the front end (between users) to the back end (between systems). The terminology of employees concerned with policy is not the language of the typical visitor or partner on the Web.... How can semantic modeling provide solutions to such problems?\n

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\n The conference is hosted by the SGML/XML Users Group, Holland, and will be held 20 November 2008 at Planetarium Amsterdam Zuidoost\n

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", "updated": "2008-09-28T17:01:08Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#121f58a6-2eaa-57d9-bad8-6bf0752e3fcb", "title": "Eric Miller to give keynote at XML Holland", "summary": "\n \n \n Zepheira's President\n\nwill be giving the keynote at\n\n XML Holland 2008\n\non 20th November, 2008, with the theme of \"Semantics and interoperability\".\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "121f58a6-2eaa-57d9-bad8-6bf0752e3fcb", "label": "urn:uuid:121f58a6-2eaa-57d9-bad8-6bf0752e3fcb" }, { "category": [ "speaking" ], "content": "
\n David Wood has organized this year's Computer Science Seminar Series on Next Generation Internet Technology and Business at the\n\n Virginia Military Institute\n\n.\n\n Abstracts\n\nfor the seminar's talks are online. Zepheira team members Eric Miller, Brian Sletten and Bernadette Hyland will be joined by Internet entrepreneurs Peter Rodgers of\n\n 1060 Research\n\n, Andrew Glover of\n\n Stelligent\n\nand Ajay Sravanapudi of\n\n Lucid Media\n\n.\n
", "updated": "2008-09-19T12:24:13Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#e5bea429-6e87-5d69-9c32-3d5e5f9cd9d6", "title": "Zepheira Partner Organizes Seminar Series", "summary": "\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "e5bea429-6e87-5d69-9c32-3d5e5f9cd9d6", "label": "urn:uuid:e5bea429-6e87-5d69-9c32-3d5e5f9cd9d6" }, { "category": [ "NetKernel", "ROC", "David Wood" ], "content": "
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\n This year's\n \n NetKernel Architects Conference\n \n is being held 25-27 September 2008 at the\n \n University of Mary Washington\n \n , in Fredericksburg, VA. Zepheira partners\n \n David Wood\n \n and\n \n Brian Sletten\n \n are assisting\n \n 1060 Research\n \n to organize the conference.\n\n1060 will be introducing NetKernel version 4.0 Pre-Release. Each attendee will get a copy on the first day. Those interested in resource-oriented computing should seriously contemplate attendance. The Architects Conference is a great way to learn the concepts and get a jump on the competition.\n\nThe\n \n conference schedule\n \n and\n \n price list\n \n are on the Web.\n

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", "updated": "2008-08-11T13:24:24Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#c7286dbe-2fed-5178-98b7-35a2e73a7019", "title": "NetKernel Architects Conference 2008", "summary": "\n \n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "c7286dbe-2fed-5178-98b7-35a2e73a7019", "label": "urn:uuid:c7286dbe-2fed-5178-98b7-35a2e73a7019" }, { "category": [ "briansletten", "rest" ], "content": "
\n

\n Andy Glover\n \n interviews\n \n Brian Sletten about REST and how it applies to software developers and the organizations they support. Far from being a rogue way to do Web Services, Brian explores exactly why organizations should care about REST for information-driven, business-friendly ways of building systems. He highlights some common misconceptions about REST, SOAP and discusses technologies like Restlets, JSR-311, NetKernel and Groovy\n

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", "updated": "2008-06-23T19:15:39Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#6b11d14c-d1e3-517c-b837-60b8cce5856a", "title": "Brian Sletten interviewed about REST for JavaWorld Podcast", "summary": "\n Brian Sletten is interviewed by Andy Glover for a JavaWorld Podcast on the subject of REST and applying lessons from the Web in the Enterprise.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "6b11d14c-d1e3-517c-b837-60b8cce5856a", "label": "urn:uuid:6b11d14c-d1e3-517c-b837-60b8cce5856a" }, { "category": [ "EIM", "Enterprise", "Integration", "Management", "conference" ], "content": "
\n

\n On 19 June at the\n \n Enterprise Information Management Conference\n \n in Toronto, Uche Ogbuji presented\n \n Practical Semantic Technology for the Enterprise\n \n in which he shared techniques and tools for applying semantic technology to bring Web architecture within the firewall. He discussed the fact that people can find things so much easier on the Web than in their companies, and touched on how Zepheira plans to address this through the\n \n Linked Enterprise Data\n \n initiative.\n

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", "updated": "2008-06-21T12:01:47Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#38afffe8-0a5a-5710-81b3-e8fd66687d5f", "title": "\"Practical Semantic Technology for the Enterprise\" at EIM Toronto", "summary": "\n Zepheira partner Uche Ogbuji gave a presentation 19 June at the\n\n Enterprise Information Management Conference\n\nin Toronto discussing the role of semantic technology for bringing Web architecture within the firewall.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "38afffe8-0a5a-5710-81b3-e8fd66687d5f", "label": "urn:uuid:38afffe8-0a5a-5710-81b3-e8fd66687d5f" }, { "category": [ "Uche Ogbuji", "Linked Data", "Enterprise" ], "content": "
\n

\n Bob DuCharme\n \n interviewed\n \n Uche Ogbuji about the concept and application of Linked Data. Ogbuji's\n \n talk\n \n will help anchor next week's Linked Data Planet conference.\n

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\n \"Think of how we traditionally deal with data in informatics. We look to fit data into neat partitions, shepherd it along neat lines and fit it into grand unified theory. All good, hard science. The problem is that data isn't so easily quantized. It's a living , temperamental entity that absorbs bits of personality from everyone who touches it. Dealing effectively with data requires art, and at Zepheira we really look to the art of data rather than to the science of code. We think adopting the right conventions for data that accommodate its unpredictable qualities is the key to so many of the problems that have dogged IT, and we believe that the web is the most successful set of conventions in this regard. In general we look to apply web architecture to enterprise problems. This brings us right in line with the Linked Data concept, which is really just a way to distill the essential keys to web architecture in a way any developer could tick off his fingers. At Zepheira we start with such principles as the body of art, and we bring together folks who've have proven themselves as journeymen and masters in this art, and we think this positions us to offer particularly effective solutions to our customers.\"\n

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\n \"At Zepheira we tend towards techniques popularized in (Linked Open Data), but clearly for most of our clients the data can't be thrown into a cloud of public data, so we've added our own refinements leading to what we've started to call Linking Enterprise Data (LED) to increase the definition of the Linked Data principles as applied to organizational data integration and decision support needs.\"\n

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\n -- Uche Ogbuji\n

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", "updated": "2008-06-09T15:21:53Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#d14d17d6-3ed2-5250-9c9d-ff9f6e9eab11", "title": "Interview with Uche Ogbuji on Linked Data", "summary": "\n Bob DuCharme interviews Zepheira's Uche Ogbuji about the applications of Semantic Technologies in preparation for the upcoming Linked Data Planet conference.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "d14d17d6-3ed2-5250-9c9d-ff9f6e9eab11", "label": "urn:uuid:d14d17d6-3ed2-5250-9c9d-ff9f6e9eab11" }, { "category": [ "Uche Ogbuji", "Linked Data", "conference" ], "content": "
\n

\n Uche will be\n \n discussing\n \n the\n \n Linking Open Data (LOD) Project\n \n , an exciting initiative to tie together public structured data sets currently available on the Web. This is one of many examples of people who are working together to create webs of data, not just of documents.\n

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\n Uche will also be participating in a\n \n panel\n \n of experts discussing the architecture and development considerations developing a Linked Data environment.\n

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\n The LinkedData Planet conference is sponsored by\n \n JupiterMedia\n \n and will bring together many of the leading minds of this space including Tim Berners-Lee. The conference will be held at the\n \n Roosevelt Hotel\n \n in New York City on June 17-18, 2008.\n

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", "updated": "2008-05-28T15:39:34Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#ec87b9d1-81d7-544a-ab28-59181a5bb684", "title": "Uche Ogbuji to speak at LinkedData Planet Conference", "summary": "\n Zepheira, LLC is proud to have Uche Ogbuji speaking at the new LinkedData Planet Conference in New York June 17-18, 2008.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "ec87b9d1-81d7-544a-ab28-59181a5bb684", "label": "urn:uuid:ec87b9d1-81d7-544a-ab28-59181a5bb684" }, { "category": [ "PURLs" ], "content": "
\n

\n Zepheira has announced the launch of a community Web site for the Open Source Persistent URL (PURL) software.\n

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\n The new community site at\n \n purlz.org\n \n is intended to become a focal point for further development of the PURL software. The site provides access to mailing lists, coordinated bug reporting, a forum for feature requests and community discussions, documentation and access to the software. The full press release is\n \n here\n \n .\n

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", "updated": "2008-05-21T12:01:02Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#771950b7-9f66-5186-b4e4-23d00b2027d6", "title": "Zepheira launches community site for PURL Software", "summary": "\n Zepheira has announced the launch of a community Web site for the Open Source Persistent URL (PURL) software.\n\nThe new community site at\n\n purlz.org\n\nis intended to become a focal point for further development of the PURL software. The site provides access to mailing lists, coordinated bug reporting, a forum for feature requests and community discussions, documentation and access to the software. The full press release is\n\n here\n\n.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "771950b7-9f66-5186-b4e4-23d00b2027d6", "label": "urn:uuid:771950b7-9f66-5186-b4e4-23d00b2027d6" }, { "category": [ "Sesame", "Mulgara", "RDF" ], "content": "
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\n \n Zepheira\n \n and\n \n Aduna\n \n are pleased to announce the integration of the\n \n Mulgara Semantic Store\n \n with the\n \n Sesame RDF Framework\n \n . The full press release is available\n \n here\n \n .\n

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", "updated": "2008-05-16T13:56:02Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#62204b9b-826f-5326-9421-f97dcb160af7", "title": "Zepheira and Aduna back Sesame/Mulgara Integration", "summary": "\n \n \n Zepheira\n\nand\n\n Aduna\n\nare pleased to announce the integration of the\n\n Mulgara Semantic Store\n\nwith the\n\n Sesame RDF Framework\n\n. The full press release is available\n\n here\n\n.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "62204b9b-826f-5326-9421-f97dcb160af7", "label": "urn:uuid:62204b9b-826f-5326-9421-f97dcb160af7" }, { "category": [ "EAI", "SOA", "REST", "Web Architecture", "Data Integration", "Open Source", "NetKernel" ], "content": "
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\n Highlighting a popular speaker at the\n \n No Fluff Just Stuff\n \n conferences, Jared Richardson posted a\n \n video interview\n \n with Zepheira partner\n \n Brian Sletten\n \n . Brian discussed the most important topics for developers looking to boost their careers, and emphasized one area where they can make a real difference for their employers.\n

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\n \"We spend too much time struggling to get access to our own data. There are schisms between business and the the rules they want to enforce (such as access control) and the information technologies in place to make this available to them. We've thrown a lot of money down the drain trying to do integration at the relational DB level, the Enterprise Application Integration level, even at the Services Oriented Architecture level. While there's a lot of great ideas in that space, it's really the wrong level for integration.\n
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\n \"Our position is that the Web is the biggest, most successful, scalable example of software architecture that gives you access to data in terms of issuing requests for logical names and getting back physical representations. It also gives you the flexibility to change the back ends, to change the intermediaries, and allow people to add value on the edge. They can consume information over here, do some processing on it and republish it....\n
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\n \"When we look at trying to expose information in the enterprise\u2014I don't care what company you work for, your data integration needs are not bigger and more diverse, and needing to be more scalable than the entire world's, so these technologies have been tremendously successful and you should look for ways to adopt them in your organization.\"\n
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\n \u2014Brian Sletten\n

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", "updated": "2008-05-01T21:44:29Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#c270c787-105a-5d52-b90f-a644fadbdeca", "title": "Video Interview with Brian Sletten", "summary": "\n Jared Richardson interviewed Zepheira Brian, asking for career advice for developers. The interview touches on topics such as where Web and RESTful architecture meet SOA and EAI to support organizational data needs.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "c270c787-105a-5d52-b90f-a644fadbdeca", "label": "urn:uuid:c270c787-105a-5d52-b90f-a644fadbdeca" }, { "category": [ "Zepheira", "architecture", "training" ], "content": "
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\n Zepheira is pleased to announce the availability of several new high value courses available in pre-packaged, a la carte and open enrollment settings. Customers can target specific topics or go for longer, more comprehensive Bootcamps to bring their employees and teams quickly up to speed on these must-know next-generation technologies.\n

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\n The 2-3 Day Courses include:\n

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\n The 5 Day BootCamp provide more comprehensive coverage on the following topics:\n

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\n For more information, please see\n \n here\n \n or\n \n contact us\n \n for custom requests.\n

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", "updated": "2008-03-25T13:50:57Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#43a44aa3-d335-561d-b98e-fec862a114ae", "title": "Zepheira Announces New High-Value Training Content", "summary": "\n Zepheira has announced a series of new training courses for both custom and open-enrollment presentations. The topics include Semantic Web technologies, Data Architecture and Transformation and Resource-Oriented Architectures for Business-Driven and Scalable systems in the Enterprise.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "43a44aa3-d335-561d-b98e-fec862a114ae", "label": "urn:uuid:43a44aa3-d335-561d-b98e-fec862a114ae" }, { "category": [ "architecture", "book", "resource-oriented" ], "content": "
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\n Following on the success of their Jolt-Award winning \"Beautiful Code\" book, O'Reilly Media is publishing a new book of personal essays by notable architects talking about decisions they have made, architectures they have seen, etc. that resulted in \"beautiful\" systems.\n

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\n Brian Sletten will be contributing a chapter on the beauty of Resource-Oriented Architectures as a means of enabling information-driven, business-focused systems that scale. The power of the Web applied to the Enterprise not only solves many of the problems not yet solved by a sad string of failed Silver Bullets, but does so with a business-friendly attention to value-driven migration, efficient use of hardware investments, access control, regulatory compliance, etc.\n

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", "updated": "2008-03-24T12:38:29Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#3ba34160-1f50-5159-ab80-ca2f8be00bfa", "title": "Brian Sletten to Contribute to O'Reilly Media's \"Beautiful Architecture\"", "summary": "\n Brian Sletten will be contributing a chapter on Resource-Oriented Architectures to O'Reilly Media's forthcoming \"Beautiful Architecture\" book.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "3ba34160-1f50-5159-ab80-ca2f8be00bfa", "label": "urn:uuid:3ba34160-1f50-5159-ab80-ca2f8be00bfa" }, { "category": [ "customer", "Remix", "Bright", "Content" ], "content": "
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\n This week\n \n Semantic Universe\n \n launched a new site for the\n \n Semantic Technology Conference 2008\n \n . The conference organizers, intent on demonstrating the practical value of the technology featured at this conference, hired\n \n Zepheira\n \n to develop a site with innovative features to benefit attendees, speakers and other participants.\n

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\n The site features a personalized conference\n \n Scheduler\n \n , a dynamic user interface based on the \n\nthe\n \n MIT Picker\n \n tool which allows the user to quickly look at the available sessions on the schedule, narrowing down choices by facets such as speakers, dates and subject matter, and using common features such as search, pagination, and bookmarking favorites. The user can then select sessions to create a custom schedule, which can be exported to iCal format for incorporation into most popular calendar software. The user can also export other views of the data such as RDF/XML and JSON.\n

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\n The user can also click through to see session details, and the site provides\n \n Weblog features for conference sessions\n \n , including the ability for people to comment on sessions, and track the discussion through\n \n Atom\n \n feeds. Contributing comments requires log-in through\n \n OpenID\n \n , showcasing the popular, decentralized standard for single sign-on.\n

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\n The session Weblog features and the overall site framework are implemented using the open source\n \n Bright Content\n \n platform, one of the many\n \n community projects\n \n supported by Zepheira.\n

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", "updated": "2008-02-28T22:48:31Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#63ff9ac3-e5c4-5e66-aeb9-1285c20dbcdd", "title": "New STC08 site built by Zepheira", "summary": "\n The new\n\n Semantic Technology Conference 2008\n\nsite built by Zepheira demonstrates the practical value of the Semantic technology with innovative features such as a dynamic scheduler and a conference session Weblog. The dynamic scheduler provides a faceted browse interface for the program, including features for interactively building a custom schedule.\n\n ", "authors": [], "type": "Entry", "id": "63ff9ac3-e5c4-5e66-aeb9-1285c20dbcdd", "label": "urn:uuid:63ff9ac3-e5c4-5e66-aeb9-1285c20dbcdd" }, { "content": "
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Zepheira president Eric\n Miller makes a presentation, \"Weaving a Web of Data\" at the TTI/Vanguard Boston conference on 25 September 2007. The presentation discusses the role of of Web technology in enterprise systems, addressing an audience of executives. The theme of the conference is \"The Wealth of Networks\", and sessions will look beyond \"Web 2.0\" technologies to a new generation of pervasive networks anticipated to cause further disruption and opportunities. \"A wealth of networks allows for smoother collaboration as data and applications quickly make their way to the Web. With networks everywhere, where data resides no longer matters, as long as it\u2019s easily accessible. Software running on laptops may soon fade away, as Web-resident apps get rented, shared, shifted, rebuilt, and mashed up.\"

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", "updated": "2007-08-24T17:30:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070824a", "title": "Zepheira presentation \"Weaving a Web of Data\" at TTI/Vanguard Boston conference", "summary": "\n \n On 25 September 2007 at the TTI/Vanguard Boston conference Zepheira President Eric Miller presents \"Weaving a Web of Data\", discussing the role of of Web technology in enterprise systems.\n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070824a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070824a" }, { "content": "
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Zepheira president Eric\n Miller has been invited to give a keynote talk at the\n 2007 Rich Web Experience (RWE), a conference in San Jose 6-8\n September. In his talk, \"The\n One Web\", he will discuss convergence of the different factions\n trying to push the Web forward, informed by his long history in core\n development of the Web. The session will include a demonstration of how\n richer Went user interface mets with richer Web data integration for\n more effective collaboration and information management. Brian Sletten, Partner at\n Zepheira, will present \"Data\n Integration Part I: Beyond Cutesy Mashups\". Brian, a long-time\n presenter at RWE sister seminar series No Fluff Just Stuff will be\n discussing how to bring together information from numerous silos using\n the same technologies that make the Web work as a fairly unified\n whole.

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", "updated": "2007-08-07T07:30:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070807a", "title": "Zepheira to give keynote, \"The One Web\" and other talks at the 2007 Rich Web Experience", "summary": "\n \n At the\n 2007 Rich Web Experience Zepheira President Eric Miller will present a keynote session, \"The\n One Web\" and Partner Brian Sletten will present \"Data\n Integration Part I: Beyond Cutesy Mashups\"\n \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070807a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070807a" }, { "content": "
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\nBrian Sletten has been invited to start contributing articles to DevX's new Semantic Web Zone. DevX, a site popular with developers solving real-world problems, has started this new area on the Semantic Web to meet a growing demand for instructional material on semantic-oriented technologies. The site will feature a variety of articles dealing with particular technologies as well as larger introductions to the underlying concepts and strategies. Brian's first article is an introduction to the URI spec and some of the complexities found in long-lived naming schemes.\n

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", "updated": "2007-07-19T17:00:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070719a", "title": "Brian Sletten is part of new DevX SemWeb Zone", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira Partner Brian Sletten begins contributing articles to DevX's new Semantic Web-oriented Zone.\n \n ", "authors": [ "Brian Sletten" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070719a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070719a" }, { "content": "
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\nZepheira and OCLC Online Computer Library Center announced today that\nthey will work together to rearchitect OCLC's Persistent URL (PURL)\nservice to more effectively support the management of a \"Web of data.\"\nThe software developed will be released under an Apache 2 Open Source\nSoftware license allowing PURLs and the PURL infrastructure to be used\nin various applications for public or proprietary use. PURLs provide a\nlevel of indirection that allows the underlying Web addresses of\nresources to change over time without negatively affecting systems\nthat depend on them. This capability provides continuity of\nreferences to network resources that may migrate from machine to\nmachine for business, social or technical reasons. The new PURL\nsoftware will also be updated to reflect the current understanding of\nWeb architecture as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).\nThis new software will provide the ability to permanently identify\nnetworked information resources, such as Web documents, as well as\nnon-networked resources such as people, organizations, concepts and\nscientific data. This capability will represent an important step\nforward in the adoption of a machine-processable \"Web of data\"\nenabled by the Semantic Web.

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OCLC identified Zepheira for their expertise with Semantic technology\nand retained their services for the design and implementation effort\nrequired to bring the PURL service to its full potential. Zepheira's\nwork on identification technology on the scale of the Web dovetails\nwith their solutions to help organizations manage and integrate data\nscattered within their walls. PURL software is also an important\ncomponent in many of Zepheira's enterprise solutions.

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\"We are very excited to be taking on this work because one of the most\nimportant principles for Zepheira is that developments towards a\nSemantic Web can be carefully tuned and scaled to meet the immediate\nneeds of businesses, while valuable experience from solving enterprise\nneeds can bring focus to Semantic Web efforts. This project for OCLC\nis a clear embodiment of this interchange, and helps establish Zepheira's\nplace at the vanguard of data integration as well as enabling the Semantic Web.\" --\nEric Miller, President, Zepheira

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", "updated": "2007-07-11T16:55:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070711a", "title": "Zepheira partners with OCLC to rearchitect Persistent URL (PURL) service", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira and OCLC Online Computer Library Center announced today that they will work together to rearchitect OCLC's Persistent URL (PURL) service to more effectively support the management of a \"Web of data.\"\n \n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070711a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070711a" }, { "content": "
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\n Kathy MacDougall, Zepheira Principal and founding Product Manager for\n the swoRDFish Metadata Initiative, has co-authored The swoRDFish Metadata Initiative: Better,\n Faster, Smarter Web Content with current swoRDFish\n Product Manager, Susie Cone of Sun Microsystems, Inc.. This case study outlines the way in which Sun\n Microsystems uses Semantic Web technologies to integrate various types\n of product-related information held in many systems across the company\n and drive dynamic delivery of this content to its external web\n properties. The paper was prepared for W3C's Semantic Web Education\n and Outreach Interest Group, which\n recently launched a site\u2014Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group:\n Case Studies and Use Cases\u2014to showcase\n how Semantic Web technologies are providing value in a variety of\n organizations.\n

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", "updated": "2007-06-09T15:30:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070609a", "title": "Zepheira partners with Sun Microsystems on Case Study for Semantic Web\n Outreach and Education at W3C", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira Principal Kathy MacDougall authors Semantic Web case study for the W3C\n \n ", "authors": [ "Kathy MacDougall" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070609a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070609a" }, { "category": [ "Eric Miller", "Business", "Semantic Web" ], "content": "
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\n Investor's Business Daily interviewed Eric Miller for their Special Report on Web\n 2.0. The interview covered Semantic Web technologies and how these can\n be used to facilitate effective collaboration and data reuse within the\n enterprise.

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\n \"These technologies make it easier to free the data from the application that created it and combine this with other data sources, identify new relationships among disparate sets of data and use this information to draw new conclusions for more effective business decisions.\"\u2014Eric Miller, After All This Interactivity, Look Out For Web 3.0 Leap, by J. Bonasia, Investor's Business Daily

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", "updated": "2007-06-04T15:00:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070604b", "title": "Zepheira featured in Investor's Business Daily Web 3.0 article", "summary": "\n \n Investor's Business Daily interviewed Eric Miller of Zepheira for an article on Web 3.0\n \n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070604b", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070604b" }, { "content": "
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David Wood, a partner in Zepheira, has been invited to join the program committe for the workshop FIRST (First Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies), to be held in conjunction with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2007. This workshop aims to have presentations from industry reporting on early adoption of semantic technologies. The audience will be researchers who will learn what industry needs from their research. It is being organized by Lyndon Nixon of Free University Berlin, Roberta Cuel of University of Trento and Claudio Bergamini of Imola Informatica, Italy.

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", "updated": "2007-06-04T14:00:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070604a", "title": "FIRST (First Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies) workshop at\n ISWC 2007", "summary": "\n \n Workshop to highlight industry adoption of Semantic Web techniques.\n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070604a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070604a" }, { "content": "
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\n Uche Ogbuji a Partner in Zepheira, has been\n invited to XML Prague 2007 to make\n presentations of XML's connection to the Python Programming language,\n and to Microformats. The discussion of XML and Microformats includes\n consideration of basic Semantic technology. This focused conference in\n the Czech capital is organized by\n Institute for\n Theoretical Computer Science and Ginger Alliance.

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\"A regular conference on XML for developers, markup geeks,\n information managers, and students, focusing this year on Alternative\n Approaches to XML Processing. A full day of experts speaking has been\n extended with an additional day dedicated for participants to hold\n related BoF sessions and workshops.\"\u2014XML Prague home page

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", "updated": "2007-06-01T14:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070601a", "title": "Zepheira appearance at XML Prague", "summary": "\n \n \t Uche Ogbuji of Zepheira is an invited expert speaker at XML Prague 2007\n \n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070601a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070601a" }, { "category": [ "Business", "Semantic Web", "Web 2.0" ], "content": "
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\n\t\t EWeek has published an story by Jim Rapoza discussing the Semantic Web. In \n\t\t \"Spinning the Semantic Web\", Jim interviews Eric Miller of Zepheira and Tim Berners-Lee of the W3C on the increased recognition of need for technologies to assist in semantic integration of data in the Enterprise and on the Web. Even when high profile companies choose not to use specific Semantic Web technologies, it is possible to convert their proprietary data into standard and reusable forms for additional linkage in a web of data. EWeek concludes:

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\"Our take is that the Semantic Web will eventually succeed, as it holds too many benefits for too many people to fall by the wayside. But it's also likely that the Semantic Web won't come about in the exact same way that many people envision. The lesson of the Web 2.0 technologies is that users are often surprising in the way they utilize new technologies. Miller told us that he had already seen businesses using Semantic Web technologies in interesting and unexpected ways.\" \"Spinning the Semantic Web\", 29 May 2007.

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", "updated": "2007-05-30T00:45:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070530a", "title": "Zepheira Featured in EWeek Article on Semantic Web", "summary": "\n \n Jim Rapoza\n\t interviewed Eric Miller in an Eweek Etech article which discussed the Semantic Web and its use in the data integration landscape.\n \n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070530a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070530a" }, { "content": "
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\n\t\t EContent magazine editor Michelle Manafy\n\t\t interviewed\n Eric Miller of Zepheira on 24 April 2007 about practical\n applications of the Semantic Web. They discussed common misconceptions\n of Semantic Web, and the present surge in practice of such technology\n after long incubation.

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\"Businesses are starting to realize the full potential of employees'\n collective mind-share as they create digital assets, spreadsheets,\n presentations, e-mail and such... Enterprises that treat their\n environment as a Web of data are able to take advantage of how\n information is connected to mine their employees' insights in order to\n make better business decisions.\"\u2014Eric Miller,\n \"Practical\n Applications of the Semantic Web\" podcast, 24 April 2007.

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", "updated": "2007-05-15T19:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070515a", "title": "Zepheira Featured in EContent Podcast on Semantic Web", "summary": "\n \n Michelle Manafy\n\t interviewed Eric Miller in an EContent magazine podcast which touched on Semantic Web in general and Zepheira in particular.\n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070515a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070515a" }, { "category": [ "Podcast", "Business", "Eric Miller", "Semantic Web", "Simile" ], "content": "
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As part of the Talking with Talis podcast series Paul Miller interviewed Eric Miller (no relation) of Zepheira. Eric spoke about his background, Semantic Web in general, and how Zepheira helps clients put this technology into practice.

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\"Zepheira provides a variety of solutions for data management and integration based on open, royalty-free Semantic Web standards, with individual skill-sets ranging from XML to RDF, from technology to business. We provide education, mentoring, architecture and implementation to take best-of-breed open source as well as commercial solutions and help organizations, communities and companies become more effective in terms of managing the data they have, seeing and understanding new connections in the data, and making more effective decisions.\"\u2014Eric Miller, Talking with Talis, 13 April 2007.

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", "updated": "2007-05-14T20:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070514a", "title": "Zepheira Featured in Talis Podcast on Semantic Web", "summary": "\n \n Paul Miller interviewed Eric Miller (no relation) of Zepheira about his background, Semantic Web in general, and how Zepheira helps clients put this technology into practice.\n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070514a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070514a" }, { "category": [ "Podcast", "Mulgara", "David Wood" ], "content": "
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Zepheira partner David Wood discusses the past, present and future of the Mulgara Semantic Store with Talis.

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", "updated": "2007-05-01T20:58:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070501a", "title": "Zepheira Featured in Talis Podcast on Mulgara", "summary": "\n \n Zepheira partner David Wood discusses the past, present and future of the Mulgara Semantic Store with Talis.\n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070501a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070501a" }, { "content": "
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David Wood, a partner in Zepheira, was recently interviewed for a full length news feature to appear in the July-August edition of IEEE Software. The feaure will explore how and if the concepts and technologies in the Semantic Web are affecting, or will affect, the discipline of software engineering. David attracted the interest of the editors after his paper Toward a Software Maintenance Methodology using Semantic Web Techniques was presented at Software Evolvability 06.

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", "updated": "2007-04-23T16:56:03Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423d", "title": "IEEE Software News Feature on Semantic Software Maintenance", "summary": "\n \n IEEE Software editors spot coming trend.\n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070423d", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423d" }, { "content": "
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David Wood, a partner in Zepheira, has been invited to join the program committe for the workshop Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0, to be held in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2007. The main topic of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the Semantic Web and the upcoming Web 2.0 communities. The workshop is being organized by Andreas Hotho and Bettina Hoser of Universitaet Kassel.

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", "updated": "2007-04-23T16:56:02Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423c", "title": "Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0 workshop at ESWC 2007", "summary": "\n \n Workshop to bring Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web closer.\n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070423c", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423c" }, { "content": "
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David Wood, a partner in Zepheira, has been invited to join the program committe for the workshop Making Semantics Work For Business, to be held in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2007. This workshop aims to solicit demonstrations of semantic technologies solving real business problems and is being organized by Lyndon Nixon of Free University Berlin, Roberta Cuel of University of Trento and David de Francisco of Telefonica, Spain.

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", "updated": "2007-04-23T16:56:01Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423b", "title": "Making Semantics Work For Business workshop at ESWC 2007", "summary": "\n \n Workshop to demonstrate semantic solutions for businesses.\n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070423b", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423b" }, { "content": "
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Brian Sletten and David Wood, partners in Zepheira, have recently signed a contract with The Pragmatic Programmers to co-author a book on Representational State Transfer (REST). REST is the architectural style used by much of the World Wide Web and one of two major approaches to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). The book is to be published in early 2008.

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", "updated": "2007-04-23T16:56:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423a", "title": "Zepheira partners to author REST book", "summary": "\n \n Pragmatic Programmers to publish book on Representational State Transfer.\n \n ", "authors": [ "David Wood" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070423a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070423a" }, { "category": [ "Eric Miller", "Business", "Semantic Web", "Semantic Web", "Eric Miller", "Business", "Podcast" ], "content": "
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As part of BusinessWeek's \"CEO Guide To Technology\" series Rachael King interviewed Eric Miller of Zepheira for\n \"The CEO Guide to the Semantic Web\". The interview, recorded 9 April 2007, discussed the evolution of Semantic Web technology, and focused on the factors that make this technology particularly relevant to businesses today.\n

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\"Quite frequently businesses are realizing that inside their organization they're creating very valuable data assets, and the problem of not being able to stitch those data assets together is keeping them from making effective decisions.\"\u2014Eric Miller, \"The CEO Guide to the Semantic Web\", 9 April 2007.

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", "updated": "2007-04-18T20:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070418a", "title": "Zepheira featured in BusinessWeek Podcast", "summary": "\n Rachael King of BusinessWeek interviewed Eric Miller in a podcast, \"The CEO Guide to the Semantic Web\"\n \n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070418a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070418a" }, { "category": [ "Eric Miller", "MIT", "Semantic Web" ], "content": "
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\n \"Part I: A Smarter Web\" is a feature article by John Borland in the March, 2007 edition of MIT Technology Review. The four-page article includes significant coverage of Zepheira, touches on the company's professional work and the personal journey of President Eric Miller. The author traces Semantic Web technology from labs and institutions through early adoption in smart organizations through venture capitalists and into the business mainstream. Zepheira's expert team has taken a lead role in shepherding Semantic technology through all these stages of development, and commercialization. We are at the forefront of efforts to integrate the promise of semantic technology into the practical needs of today's organizations. Contact us today to learn more.\n

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\"Zepheira, a consulting company that helps businesses link fragmented data sources into easily searched wholes...\"\u2014John Borland in MIT Technology Review, 19 March 2007

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", "updated": "2007-04-17T20:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070417a", "title": "Zepheira featured in MIT Tech Review article", "summary": "\n \n \"Part I: A Smarter Web\", a feature article by John Borland in the March, 2007 edition of MIT Technology Review, includes significant coverage of Zepheira, touching on the company's professional work, and the personal journey of President Eric Miller.\n ", "authors": [ "Uche Ogbuji" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070417a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070417a" }, { "content": "
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Daniel Krech, along with a great group of contributors, has released\n rdflib-2.4.0, a Python library for working with RDF. The library contains parsers\n and serializers for RDF/XML, N3, NTriples, Turtle, TriX and RDFa. The\n library presents a Graph interface which can be backed by any one of a\n number of store implementations, including, memory, MySQL, Redland,\n SQLite, Sleepycat, ZODB and SQLObject. The 2.4.0 release contains\n improved literal support in regards to datatype mapping and comparison\n operations, many SPARQL fixes and improvements, and many other fixes\n and improvements.

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", "updated": "2007-04-11T16:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070411a", "title": "rdflib 2.4.0 released", "summary": "\n \n rdflib-2.4.0, a Python library for working with RDF, has ben released.\n ", "authors": [ "Daniel Krech" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070411a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070411a" }, { "category": [ "Simile", "NetKernel" ], "content": "
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Brian Sletten has introduced a new data mashups talk to be presented as part of the 2007 No Fluff Just Stuff Tour. The talk focuses on emerging technologies that will enable a level of data integration rarely seen in the enterprise. Examples include consuming del.icio.us queries as iTunes podcasts, viewing data multi-dimensionally in Exhibit and exercising Yahoo Pipes-like functionality in Pinky, a rapidly growing NetKernel module for RSS feed remixing.

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", "updated": "2007-02-28T16:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070228a", "title": "New Data Mashup Talk", "summary": "\n Brian Sletten is introducing a new data mashup talk to be delivered as part of the No Fluff Just Stuff 2007 tour.\n ", "authors": [ "Brian Sletten" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20070228a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20070228a" }, { "content": "
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The Web Accessibility Initiative WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) has released the first public Working Draft of HTTP Vocabulary in RDF. This specification defines an RDF vocabulary for concepts relating to HTTP protocol and conventions. This can be used in a variety of ways, including expression of business rules for Web interaction and analysis of actual Web interaction records.

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", "updated": "2006-12-20T16:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20061220a", "title": "HTTP Vocabulary in RDF", "summary": "\n The Web Accessibility Initiative WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) has released the first public Working Draft of HTTP Vocabulary in RDF. This specification defines an RDF vocabulary for concepts relating to HTTP protocol and conventions. This can be used in a variety of ways, including expression of business rules for Web [...]\n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20061220a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20061220a" }, { "content": "
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The Semantic Technology Conference has for the past three years been a highly successful gathering of the best and brightest on the subject. Eric Miller of Zepheira presented the keynote at the inaugural conference in 2005 and Uche Ogbuji has spoken at the 2005 and 2006 conferences. The call for presentations for the 2007 conference is closing Monday, December 18, 2006. Registration is opening soon. If you\u2019re interested in latest developments in semantic technology and its practical application, do plan to attend the conference.

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", "updated": "2006-12-13T16:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20061213a", "title": "Call for papers closing for 2007 Semantic Technology Conference", "summary": "\n The Semantic Technology Conference has for the past three years been a highly successful gathering of the best and brightest on the subject. Eric Miller of Zepheira presented the keynote at the inaugural conference in 2005 and Uche Ogbuji has spoken at the 2005 and 2006 conferences. The call for presentations for the 2007 conference [...]\n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20061213a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20061213a" }, { "content": "
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Eric Miller will be giving the Keynote at MESDA\u2019s 14th Annual Conference on how Semantic Web and Web 2.0 improve businesses today. MESDA is Northern New England\u2019s premier networking and educational event. If you\u2019re interested in understanding how these technologies will shape the future of how individuals, groups and businesses can be more effective in data management, merging and reuse, plan to attend.

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", "updated": "2006-11-28T16:00:00Z", "link": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20061128a", "title": "Eric Miller to keynote at MEDSA's 14th Annual Conference", "summary": "\n Eric Miller will be giving the Keynote at MESDA's 14th Annual Conference on how Semantic Web and Web 2.0 improve businesses today. MESDA is Northern New England's premier networking and educational event. If you're interested in understanding how these technologies will shape the future of how individuals, groups and businesses can be more effective in [...]\n ", "authors": [ "Eric Miller" ], "type": "Entry", "id": "x20061128a", "label": "http://zepheira.com/publications/news/#x20061128a" } ] }