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EBB is the ebiquity research group's blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive
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New York Times publishes Linked Open Data
Like many newspapers, the New York Times links the first mention of well known entitles in its articles to a reference page. For example, a mention of Barack Obama links to a page which is a collection of basic information on President Obama and lin...
CFP: Semantics for the rest of us Workshop at 8th Int. Semantic Web Conference
IMPORTANT DATES Submissions 10 Aug 09 Notification 19 Aug 09 Final copy 2 Sept 09 Workshop 26 Oct 09 Semantics for the Rest of Us: Variants of Semantic Web Languages in the Real World is a workshop that will be held at the...
Google supports RDFa and Microformats
Google has announced that it will begin to recognize structured information encoded as metadata in either RDFa and in Microformats and use the metadata in search results snippets for reviews and people. “Structured data makes the web a better ...
Microsoft Word add-in annotates text with ontology terms
Microsoft has announced an add-in for Word 2007 that lets authors annotate a word or phrase with terms defined in external ontologies. Addressing this critical challenge for researchers, Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons announced today, before a...
Yahoo! adds RDF support to SearchMonkey and BOSS
This could be a big step toward the “web of data” vision of the Semantic Web. Yahoo announced (Accessing Structured Data using BOSS that their BOSS (Build your Own Search System) will now support structured data, including RDF. “Y...
Neologism Web-based RDFS vocabulary editor
Neologism is a simple web-based RDF Schema vocabulary editor and publishing system under development at DERI. It looks like a great lightweight tool for developing Semantic Web vocabularies and publishing them on the Web following current best pract...
Reuters Calais to support Semantic Web Linked Data in next release
Thompson Reuters announced on their blog (Life in the Linked Data Cloud: Calais Release 4) that their next release of the Calais web-based information extraction services will support linked data. “In that release we’ll go beyond the ability...
Briggs on Constraint Generation and Reasoning in OWL, Noon Mon 17 Nov @ UMBC
Tom Briggs will defend his dissertation, Constraint Generation and Reasoning in OWL, at Noon on Monday 17 November 2008 in ITE 325b. His work has focused on automatically computing reasonable domain and range constraints for Semantic Web properties....
