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Future Web talk caught up in semantics

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has talked up the prospects of the semantic Web, which he calls the "Web of the future". Read more »

Berners-Lee: Co-operation key to intelligent Web

Creating a Semantic Web will need organisations to think beyond their own industries, according to W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Read more »

W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0

Supporters of the Sparql query language say using the Web without it would be like 'trying to use a relational database without SQL' Read more »

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee

A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence. Read more »

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Towards a Semantic Web

The ability to interpret machine semantics on the Web is becoming crucial to many industries. Can Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Semantic Web help create a new Web order? Read more »

LBase: A tool to generalise the Semantic Web

To manage many semantic languages, the W3C has proposed the LBase tool to define the semantics for all Web semantic languages. Read more »

Cocoon project basics

Apache's Cocoon project will provide a way to capture, render, and deliver Web-based content for a variety of purposes. Find out more about this XML publishing framework. Read more »

W3C standards: The relationship between RDF and Topic Maps

In this article we analyse the background of both the the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Topic Maps standards and their interoperability. Read more »

SPARQL: A query platform for Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web

This document explains how SPARQL might be used for querying information in a Web 2.0 environment and how the SPARQL Protocol works for remote queries. Read more »

Building Microsoft code inside the tornado

Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »

Meta tags and the Dublin Core

Here's a closer look at using meta tags today, as well as how the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative might influence the way they're used in the future. Read more »

Will open source kill off the CMS money pit?

Open source gurus comment on content management system enterprise adoption, the effects of OSS, and understanding community goals. Read more »

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Down to Semantics

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". Read more »

Microsoft's two faces of SharePoint

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- One way or another, proprietary and open-source companies need an answer to SharePoint. Content is the center of the enterprise ecosystem, when all is said and done. SharePoint is Microsoft's answer for controlling the next decade of IT. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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