Home - Semantic Web

Links to Technology Subjects

billb — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:40:47 -0700

Most of the content about technical aspects of Information Technology is on the Development site, including information about specific business-rule products, rule engine design, computer languages, etc. Follow one of the the links listed below for more technically oriented content.

Links - Semantic Web Services

billb — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:15:52 -0700

Revised Feb 23 2009: will get more attention in coming months

A year ago, the subject of Semantic Web Services might have been considered visionary. In fact, several of the early corporate efforts were canceled or abandoned ( such as Microsoft's GoDotNet ). At best, the technolgy has been static.

But that is not the case today. Several popular web development tools and packages ( such as the Drupal Services project ) are making the vision a concrete reality.

Link - A Web of Rules

billb — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:00:55 -0600

Update Oct 29 2008

Interesting article about "A Wen of Rules" from 2003.

Also some Benjamin Grosof links from 2005.

Links - W6 Vocabularies for the Semantic Web

billb — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:23:32 -0600

W6 vocabularies ( ontologies ) allow resource descriptions and reasoning based on the 6 questions : who, why, what, when, where, and how. ( better called "W5-H" ? )

Links- Knowledge Representation and the Semantic Web

billb — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:15:45 -0600

Updated Oct 3 2008:

The representation of knowledge in general, particularly as it applies to the SemWeb.

From the KR.org site:

Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Incorporated (KR, Inc.) is a Scientific Foundation incorporated in the state of Massachusetts of the United States of America concerned with fostering research and communication on knowledge representation and reasoning.

Links - Topic Maps

billb — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:16:45 -0600

From Wikipedia:

Link - Semantic Web Patterns

billb — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:35:41 -0600

From the article:

Links - Semantic Web

billb — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:03:07 -0600

Jan 25 2009 - Added Named Graph links
Note to self Sept 10 2008 - This thing needs work.
Revised: April 4 2008. This disordered mess of links cleaned up, except for a few strays.

See Semantic Web at technorati.com.

Examples of RDF and stray stuff:

March 26th 2008 - The Big Day for the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia

billb — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:48:49 -0600

Updated: April 15th 2008

March 26th was the start of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia.

From the Symposia program schedule page:

Links - Grid Computing and the Semantic Grid

billb — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:40:56 -0600

The Semantic Grid takes the standards of the Semantic Web usch as RDF and OWL and combines them with the technology of Grid Computing, sometimes called the Computational Grid. There is a strong association between Grid Computing and SOA architecture.

One of the best descriptions from the article Semantic Grid is Laying the Foundations for the Semantic Grid (PDF ):