Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’
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.
The GenomeSpace initiative brings together diverse computational tools into one place, enabling scientists without programming skills to easily combine their capabilities and aims to offer a common space to create, manipulate and share an ever-growing range of genomic analysis tools. Initially seeded with six popular genomics tools GenomeSpace will provide a common workspace that enhances the tools interoperability and accelerate scientific research and discovery. Read more
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.
Zepheira president Eric 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’s easily accessible. Software running on laptops may soon fade away, as Web-resident apps get rented, shared, shifted, rebuilt, and mashed up.”
Zepheira president Eric Miller has been invited to give a keynote talk at the 2007 Rich Web Experience (RWE), a conference in San Jose 6-8 September. In his talk, “The One Web”, he will discuss convergence of the different factions trying to push the Web forward, informed by his long history in core development of the Web. The session will include a demonstration of how richer Went user interface mets with richer Web data integration for more effective collaboration and information management. Brian Sletten, Partner at Zepheira, will present “Data Integration Part I: Beyond Cutesy Mashups”. Brian, a long-time presenter at RWE sister seminar series No Fluff Just Stuff will be discussing how to bring together information from numerous silos using the same technologies that make the Web work as a fairly unified whole.
EWeek has published an story by Jim Rapoza discussing the Semantic Web. In “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:
“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.
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.