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Web4WeB projectWeb technologies for West Balkan countries Web4WeB is a scientific project funded under the EC FP6 which lasts from April 2007 to October 2009. The mission of Web4WeB is to strengthen the West Balkan’s research body, industry and service providers in one of the most important areas of current computer technology – Semantic Web. The center of excellence that will emerge from the Web4WeB project, will concentrate its efforts around the outreach to West Balkan research body, coordination of research efforts in the region and outreach to Industry and to Education. Web4WeB.orgWeb4WeB.org is a portal on Semantic web Technologies. It contains information on latest advances, web resources, scientific projects, conferences, journals and institutions related to Semantic Web. Besides that, portal contains information about Web4WeB project and its results. It will also contain brief descriptions of Semantic Web and other advanced Web technologies (web services, SOA, query languages, etc.) in local languages. |
Web4Web Workshop 2009Regional workshop on Semantic Web technologies, Belgrade, Serbia, 29 September 2009.  Belgrade from the Sava river Web4WeB Workshop 2009 is a regional workshop on Semantic Web technologies. During the workshop Web4WeB team will give presentations on several topics from the field of Semantic Web and present results of the Web4WeB project. All sorts of stakeholders (researchers, students, IT professionals) from the West Balkan region are welcomed to register for the workshop. This includes ones that are already familiar with the Semantic Web field and those that are just starting to work in this field.
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Semantic Web News
OASIS blesses UIMA - What does it mean?
March 20, 2009
OASIS (the standards body behind things like DocBook and BPEL) approved a new standard, effictively resuscitating an arcane technology long thought by archaeologists to be dead: Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA).
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SKOS become W3C Candidate recommendation
March 17, 2009
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of SKOS Reference. The Working Group has also published a Working Draft of SKOS Primer.
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Protégé 3.4 released
March 16, 2009
Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework.
The Protégé platform supports two main ways of modeling ontologies via the Protégé-Frames and Protégé-OWL editors. Protégé ontologies can be exported into a variety of formats including RDF(S), OWL, and XML Schema. (more)
Protégé is based on Java, is extensible, and provides a plug-and-play environment that makes it a flexible base for rapid prototyping and application development.
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Yahoo! adds RDF support to SearchMonkey and BOSS
February 12, 2009
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.
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Calais: Putting Wings on the Semantic Web
May 28, 2008
The OpenCalais project aims to make more of the Web easily accessible. The Calais automatically creates rich Semantic metadata from any textual input using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods.
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Repositories of SW Resources
| Repository | Title | Description |
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| Annotation tools | Annotation and Authoring for the Semantic Web | Collection of the best known tools around annotation and authoring. |
| Dave Beckett's RDF Resource Guide | RDF Resource Guide | This guide contains links to many RDF resources including examples, documents, software, tools and projects that use it. |
| ESW Wiki | ESW Wiki | |
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Projects
| Project | Title | Description |
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| ACTIVE | Enabling the knowledge powered enterprise | Europe is in transition to a knowledge economy and effective knowledge management is fundamental to successful economic activity. Still, enterprises find it hard to transform most of their essential tacit (implicit) knowledge into transferable, easily accessible, and actionable knowledge assets. ACTIVE aims to increase the productivity of knowledge workers in a pro-active, contextualised, yet easy and unobtrusive way. The aim is to convert tacit knowledge - the "hidden intelligence" of enterprises - into actionable knowledge to support collaboration and automated problem solving. A key aspect will be the support for informal procedural knowledge - the informal collaboration and problem-solving tasks that drive much knowledge work in the enterprise. |
| ALVIS | Super-peer semantic search engine | The project will conduct research in the design, use and interoperability of topic-specific search engines with the goal of developing an open source prototype of a distributed, semantic-based search engine. Existing search engines provide poor foundation for semantic web operations, and are becoming vital access paths to the Internet.
Our approach is not the traditional Semantic Web approach with coded or semi-automatically extracted metadata, but rather an engine that can build on content through automatic analysis of free text. Linguistic processing will be inside the search engine and a probabilistic document model will provide a principled evaluation of relevance to complement existing standard authority scores. This will facilitate semantic retrieval and incorporate pre-existing domain ontologies using facilities for import and maintenance. The distributed design will be based on exposing search objects as resources, and on using implicit and automatically generated semantics (not ontologies) to distribute queries and merge results. Because semantic expressivity and interoperability are competing goals, developing a system that is both distributed and semantic-based is the key challenge: research will involve both the statistical and linguistic format of semantic internals, and determining the extent to which the semantic internals are exposed at the interface. The consortium assembles a team of leading international researchers from the areas of peer-to-peer computing (P2P), information extraction and search, and probabilistic modeling together with some of Europe's leading SMEs. The combination of design goals, the distributed operation and open source development have been chosen to support incremental growth, third-party involvement, low barrier to entry, and next generation knowledge services so it provides a foundation for European SMEs and be accepted internationally. |
| AXMEDIS | Automating Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution | AXMEDIS aims to meet the challenges of market demand by:
(i) reducing costs for content production and management by applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to content creation, representation (format) and workflow; (ii) reducing distribution and aggregation costs in order to increase accessibility with a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) platform at Business-to-Business (B2B) level, which can integrate content management systems and workflows; (iii) developing and providing new methods and tools for innovative and flexible Digital Rights Management (DRM), including the exploitation of MPEG-21 and overcoming its limitations, and supporting different business and transaction models. |
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Conferences
| Conference | Description |
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| Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC) | ASWC - The Asian Semantic Web Conference aims to present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, knowledge modeling, logic, databases, social networks, Web services, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. |
| Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE) | IEEE CEC - Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services is a joint event providing a platform for researchers interested in theory and practice of E-Commerce and Enterprise Computing |
| European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) | ECOWS - European Conference on Web Services is the premier conference for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web Services. |
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Journals
| Journal | Description |
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| Artificial Intelligence and Law | Artificial Intelligence and Law is an international forum for the dissemination of original interdisciplinary research in the following areas: - Theoretical or empirical studies in artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, linguistics, or philosophy which address the development of formal or computational models of legal knowledge, reasoning, and decision making… |
| Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | The journal provides a leading forum for disseminating significant original research results in the foundations, theory, development, analysis, and applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. |
| Computer | Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society, publishes peer-reviewed technical content that covers all aspects of computer science, computer engineering, technology, and applications. |
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