With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

Swoogle, the Semantic web search engine, is a research project carried out by the ebiquity research group in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland.

The BBC’s website for the 2010 World Cup was notable for the raw amount of rich information that it contained. Every player on every team in every group had their own web page, and the ease with which ...

Originally designed for document distribution, the Web has yet to realize its full potential for distributing data. XML has done its part. Yet every XML document requires an XML Schema — and relating ...

Aiming to rehabilitate both the technology and the image of its Semantic Web initiative, the Web's leading standards group has issued a number of updates and promised a spring and summer education ...

The history of computing is the history of finding ways to link data to programs, and the Semantic Web is the next step in that evolution, Tim Berners-Lee told attendees at the Gartner Web Services ...

Chris Sukornyk has an answer to the question "Is there any practical application for the W3C Semantic Web concept?" Semaview Inc., Sukornyk's Toronto-based start-up, is offering a Semantic Web-based ...

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. In ...