Posts Tagged ‘Semantic Web’
The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) 25th Annual Conference will be held on June 3-6, 2010 in Palm Springs, California. The NASIG Vision Sessions are designed to speak to some of the important issues facing the serials community: how can we leverage the data we have? What changes are facing publishing? And what are the systems libraries need to manage serials in this environment? Eric Miller from Zepheira will be providing the Vision Session on Linked Data and Libraries with the goal of addressing these concerns. The following abstract provides an overview of this presentation.
Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, Museums and the Web reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be attending this meeting and participating in the invitational only Wikimedia@MW2010 workshop. This workshop is designed to bring together leaders in the museum industry, Wikimedia Commons effort and Web community to examine for greater synergy between the museum sector and Wikimedia efforts. Specifically this workshop will address rules, guidelines and examples that can be clarified to order to promote active engagement between the two communities. Read more
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.
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.
Callimachus has been made possible by support from JES & Co., the National Science Foundation and Zepheira.
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. Read more
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.
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 – 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.
On April 7th Eric Miller and Uche Ogbuji will be presenting “Websheets – Web-based Data Integration
of Spreadsheets” at Enterprise Data World in Tampa, Florida.
The W3C and its members have long sought the ability to mix extractable structured content with existing publishing processes to improve the machine-processability of the Web. Microformats have 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 Resource Description Framework (RDF) model.
On November 20th Uche Ogbuji will be presenting “An enterprise roadmap for semantic
technology” in a free teleconference seminar series led by Earley and
Associates .