Ontology News

January 2009 Digest

2009-02-22T23:31:00.000-08:00

The Semantic Web Gang discusses Calais 4.0, Linked Data, and Google
Neon European Project. The aim of the NeOn Project is to develop tools for facilitating the design and development of large-scale semantically-aware applications that draw on heterogeneous data and knowledge sources.
Neon Tooltkit : an extensible open-source Ontology Engineering Environment (Java, Eclipse-Based). Starting point of the toolkit is OntoStudio of OntoPrise.
Non-W3C proposal RDF-EASE: a suggestion to specify RDFa bindings in css-like stylesheets.
TopQuadrant releases TopBraid Composer 3.0 beta.
Interesting video on (SPARQL-based) inferencing and constraint checking in TopBraid Composer.

December 2008 Digest

2009-01-05T00:23:00.000-08:00

Zemanta releases LOD-connected NLP API
Links of Interest:
- Linking Open Data (LOD)
- Zemanta NLP API - Alternative to Reuters OpenCalais?
Semantic CrunchBase - a SPARQL-Endpoint to CrunchBase (directory of technology companies, people, and investors).
Talis Podcast: Mark Greaves about Vulcan and semantic web opportunities. Vulcan is, amongst other things, an investor into semweb companies and solutions.
ReadWriteWeb: 10 new semantic web products to watch - 2009.
World Wide Web Consortium publishes eleven documents about OWL 2

November 2008

2008-12-01T23:33:00.000-08:00

A bit on the brief side, but nevertheless:

10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later.
The Semantic Web Gang talks with Nova Spivack about the public release of Twine.
MEDICO ontology (Imaging) provides a Hierarchy Web Interface, built with jOWL.
Avatar Virtual body helps MD's visualize information

October 2008 Digest

2008-10-31T00:46:00.000-07:00

FreeBase sets up an RDF service.
Watson - search engine for ontologies - semantic metadata.
Protein Feature Ontology - White Paper - published in BioInformatics.
Radar Networks releases Twine 1.0 to the general public.
Ontoprise to extend Microsoft Sharepoint with semantic technologies.
Project10X publishes the Web 3.0 Manifesto - providing insight into semantic technologies and opportunities, current and future.
RDFa is now a W3C recommendation.
Siri - new stealth company, T Gruber (known for his ontology definitions) is cofounder and CTO.
Semantic Universe webcasts - Dean Allemang & Jim Hendler
Talis podcast with Expert System.
Rule ML 2008 Conference
Building Linked Data For Both Humans and Machines - White Paper, RDFa to bridge the gap.
Inform to enhance Washington Times Online Experience
Inform will create 'Theme' pages, topic specific pages about significant news, automatically updated with relevant stories, photographs, video and blog posts.
Quickly following this news: The New York Daily News will license the same solution.
Best of Show Winners at Bio-IT World 2008 , in the categories knowledge discovery and visualisation, text mining, ...

September 2008 Digest

2008-10-01T23:45:00.000-07:00

OWLED 2008 Workshop - Lots of OWL papers.
Thomson Reuteurs (OpenCalais) releases SemanticProxy.com
Semantic web Gang Podcast - september.
jOWL Ubiquity Script
The Semantic Technology Value Chain - simple market segmentation effort.
Uptake (travel) supports it's search functionality with an Ontology and some NLP.
Cognition exposes their semantic applications, a combination of NLP and a touch of semantics.
PowerSet technology already deployed in Microsoft Live Search.
Vadlo custom search engine on the life sciences domain.
Zemanta gets additional funding.
There is a big future for Semantics in Advertising. See also the blog post 4 different kinds of semantic advertising.
Creation of the World Wide Web Foundation by Tim Berners-Lee, different from World Wide Web Consortium - W3C.

July - August 2008 digest.

2008-08-28T03:12:00.000-07:00

August 2008

Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe
Cell Cycle Ontology browser at Ontology Online
State of the Semantic Web: Know Where to Look - DevX article.
GOfetcher: A Database with Complex Searching Facility for Gene Ontology - White Paper
Mozilla Labs - Ubiquity - Natural language commands for the browser. Interesting extensibility.
Protege beta 4 is available
On the semantics of advertising. Qoute: "Mr Provost said: "If people aren't bidding on keywords and are bidding on concepts, it could completely change the ball game."".
cuil - new search engine, nice UI.

July 2008

SHER - Scalable Highly Expressive Reasoner (IBM, for OWL-DL) is available for download.
UMBEL Ontology has been released, 20.000 entries.
Talis podcast - Dean Allemang talks about TopQuadrant and ‘Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist’.
collaborative ontology engineering, wiki style. See also [1].
Concept Hub wiki page - for collaboration among users and developers of health care terminologies. Big wiki of concepts. Uses Semantic MediaWiki.
UK Government throws open public data in 20.000 pound mashup competition.
jOWL status update - jOWL, javascript library that loads and reasons with OWL-DL files

June 2008 Digest

2008-07-11T04:52:00.001-07:00

A bit later than usual, but nevertheless:

Journal of Web Semantics Preprint server - access to dowloadable preprint pdf's of articles to appear in the Journal of Web Semantics.
Peer39* - described as semantic advertising solutions enabled by a mix of NLP & machine learning technology.
Ontolog Presentation, Mark Greaves - On the Halo Project (funded by microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) & Semantic Mediawiki
Microsoft will buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus.
Cycorp talks AI at google.
RDFa is now a candidate recommendation at W3C
Impressive demo: the Umbel (ontology) concept explorer
New StartUp: TextDigger
Syndication Web Services from Hakia
Microsoft & Kaiser to Launch New Health-Records Program
The Bibliographic Ontology 1.0 has been released. Zotero plans on using it to describe documents.

May 2008 Digest

2008-06-09T04:01:00.000-07:00

Article on the Open Ontology Repository (OOR).
The OOR is an initiative from the Ontolog Community. If worked out well, this could be an influential project, especially if combined with web services.

SezWho Acquires Tejit
- Tejit's semantic-analysis engine, which uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and semantic matching technology to identify topics, sentiments and entities present in web content.

Dow Jones Introduces Enhanced Business Semantic Management Tool, Synaptica

ReadWriteWeb on YaHoo! SearchMonkey

Apache Lucene
integrates Teragram Linguistic Tools.

Franz inc.
unveils the AllegroGraph 64-bit RDFStore.
Google Health goes public beta

Nuance launches web-based BI tool for clinical use

Yahoo SearchMonkey
opens it's doors to developers.

TopQuadrant hires Jeremy Carroll as Chief Product Architect
Jeremy Carroll is the lead architect of the Jena Toolkit

Microsoft may show interest in Powerset

Powerset is Live

Following Yahoo & Digg, myspace
plans to implement RDFa/Microformats (hardly the semantic web, but nevertheless).

Talis Podcast - Peter Mika
of Yahoo! Research, covering SearchMonkey & semantics.

New website for browsing ontologies among which the basic formal ontology (BFO)

April 2008 Digest

2008-05-06T00:22:00.000-07:00

presentation Ontologies for the Enterprise by Duane Nickull.

LinkedDataPlanet Conference - June 17-18 2008.

Yahoo! Launches SearchMonkey Developer Tool - See SearchMonkey - semantic web connection: Microformats.

ZCubes - semi web3.0 application, in the lines of Twine?

Anatomy Lens - IBM Research, semantic search on PubMed.

SHER an OWL Reasoner by IBM Research

Microsoft is building an Ontology Editor with Silverlight.

Semantic Outreach Group Ends on High Note - chaired by Susie Stephens / Eli Lilly & Co.

Start making sense - the economist on the semantic web

March 2008 Digest

2008-03-28T01:00:00.000-07:00

Zementa, another semantic annotation startup?
Triplify.org, helps build rdf from relational database entries.
2008 Semantic technology conference - schedule
Zitgist LLC gets a new CEO.
TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack
Hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties
SAS buys natural language processing vendor Teragram
Yahoo embraces the Semantic Web? - mainly adding microformat indexing?
Talis podcast - Barak Pridor, ClearForest CEO talks about ClearForest, Calais, Reuters and the Semantic Web
Language and Computing partners With Revolution Health to Improve Patient Health and Wellness
jOWL a semantic javascript library, by Ontology Online

February 2008 Digest

2008-02-28T03:33:00.000-08:00

Tim Berners-Lee about the semantic web on Talis Podcasts

Status of OpenCalais after one month of operation.

TrueKnowledge.com
Natural Language Wikipedia search engine?

Teragram
Delivers Text Analytics Solutions and Language Technologies

OntoWiki looking impressive.

xOperator
Semantic agent for xmpp / jabber network which finds and shares content about resources (using RDF / SPARQL).

BioWisdom Announces Second Partner of Safety Intelligence Program (Johnson & Johnson)

Language and Computing to Provide Natural Language Processing Technology to Ochsner Health System

See also: Language and Computing, Ochsner Health System

VIDEO:
good explanation from Nova Spivack (Twine) on the semantic web

Mayo Clinic Internship on ontology management

Reuters gets a very clever CEO
Reuters & OpenCalais.
More information on Reuters OpenCalais service - ReadWriteWeb

Text Analysis with OpenCalais in TopBraid
TopQuadrant uses the Calais service for text-interpretation. OpenCalias is owned by Reuters (the newsgroup), who recently acquired ClearForest (see also December 2007 & January 2008 digest).

NASA quietly gets on with putting the Semantic Web to work

OBO Explorer: an editor for open biomedical ontologies in OWL - white paper.

3 semantic web talks for JavaOne 2008

January 2008 Digest

2008-02-19T05:25:00.000-08:00

PeoplePad - semantic web company, currently in stealth Mode.

Semantically enhancing REST services - Paper.

OpenCalais - Semantic annotation / submit unstructured text and receive back named entities, facts and events contained within the text. By Reuters

GoPubMed - semantic PubMed, looking better by the minute.
Video introduction to GoPubMed

Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? - by ReadWriteWeb.

Computers, Coding, and Change Article on Computer-assisted coding and its impact on coders.

December Digest

2008-01-08T05:07:00.000-08:00

A bit brief, but nevertheless:

Scientific American - The semantic web in Action (On-site) - Follow-up article to a 2001 article talking about companies and projects using semantic web technology.

Clearforest: Online parsing of free text and extraction of companies, names, etc... Seems to work (even with a little built-in reference resolution), save to xml functionality seems broken.

Movieclip against ontology, categorisation, etc...

November Digest - Ontology News

2007-12-13T03:45:00.000-08:00

Natural Language and the Semantic Web: ISWC Keynote talk
- Powerset again:
interesting comment on semantic annotation: "First, NLP systems can now automatically create annotations from unstructured text. This provides the data that semantic web applications require.".
CureHunter.com Aims to Distill Evidence Based Medicine - Knowledge discovery in medicine.
An Ontology for developing e-Business Models - whitepaper.
BioWisdom Launches OmniViz Academic Program - mention of ontology.
TopBraid announces TopBraid Composer - Maestro Edition.

October Digest

2007-11-14T03:22:00.000-08:00

PowerSet a Hype? Questioning PowerSet.

The Quaero project - new European search technology

web2.0 summit summary - some interesting thoughts on the status of web3.0.

two interesting Ontolog presentations:
1. Distributed Ontology Development with Protégé
2. A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL from Oracle.

Twine Something semantic, unclear what it delivers/is about at this stage. From Radar Networks: see also news July.

again PowerSet. Unbelievable how much online marketing these guys do, and they don't even have a product to show yet.

September Digest

2007-10-01T06:54:00.000-07:00

CodeLink A Semantic Wiki for Code Documentation.

Linguimatics - Linguamatics I2E Deployed by 81qd to Identify Key Information for Life Cycle Management Planning.

Ontology widget - attempt to provide Ajax based ontology interaction.

Onkosh - An Arabic Search Engine that claims NLP functionality.

Work has started on OWL1.1, which will be featuring Qualified Cardinality Restrictions. See discussion for some background. OWL Working Group.

IkeWiki - semantic wiki.

OBO-Edit—an ontology editor for biologists - OBO-edit whitepaper.

August 2007 Digest

2007-09-03T07:28:00.001-07:00

FreeBase is in Public Alpha
Ontology Modeling with DowJones
Semantic Solution for Patent Processing Presented by Effective Soft (document tagging application)
Brainwave launches text mining product for reseachers
OwlSight - Google web toolkit-coded OWL browser

July 2007

2007-08-10T01:37:00.000-07:00

Articles / Papers

Mediating Semantic Web Service Access using the Semantic Firewall White paper.

Technology displays

UMBEL: Upper-level Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer
Snoggle: a graphical ontology mapper
Powerset Search Engine claiming Natural Language Search capabilities.
Lexxe Another search engine claiming Natural Language Search capabilities.

Market

RadarNetwords - Web 3.0 startup company
Oracle Unveils Oracle(r) Database 11g - 11g official press release.

End of June Digest

2007-07-01T23:42:00.000-07:00

Articles / Papers

Ontology and Taxonomy of Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture
Economist: RNA - Really New Advances
- Advances in Molecular Biology - RNA & the role of Ontologies

Technology displays

GoPubMed
- an ontology-based search engine for the life sciences.
myOntology website
ONKI
- Finnish ontology server

Market

deSciner
- Integrates Powerful Search Engine for the Life Sciences from Transinsight into OBBeC Portal
Pace University, IBM Pursue IT Labor Market Project
- Web mining and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in labor market research.
Bayer HealthCare AG
- Renews and Expands its License for Ariadne Pathway Studio and MedScan Technology
RNA Ontology Consortium
- Has been promised half a million dollars to prune and tend the growing thicket of RNA-tailed acronyms.
National Semantic Web Ontology Project in Finland

June 15th Digest

2007-06-10T23:47:00.000-07:00

Theory and more

Ontology and the Semantic Web
- WhitePaper
BFO Discuss
- Discussing the need for a middle level ontology.

Technology

FreeBase
Building a user defined global ontology?
SEO - Search Engine Optimization Tricks
Google using an ontology.
RSC Publishing announces pioneering work on RSS feeds
About adding ontological metadata to RSS feeds.

Market

May News digest

2007-05-31T04:06:00.000-07:00

Companies

Technology

Marketing talks