RDF and Contexts: Use of SPARQL and Named Graphs to Achieve Contextualization
White Papers The very simple structure of the RDF data model and semantics can lead to a number of issues when more complex scenarios are supposed to be represented in RDF. The solution proposed is to use the notion of context to separate statements that refer...
[January 8, 2007, 0:00]
Sharing and Browsing Photo Collections Through RDF Geo-Metadata
White Papers The paper presents a prototype system in which an RDF description of pictures, location and compass heading information is used so that users' photo collections are enhanced by relations with other user's pictures.
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Java/JRuby Developers, Say Open 'Sesame' to the Semantic Web
White Papers Using semantic web technologies such as RDF/RDFS and the SPARQL query language to integrate and use data from disparate sources has some advantages over using a standard relational database. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) uses predicates...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Writing Functional Code With RDFa
White Papers News feeds in all their manifestations - both with and without RDF - have a long tradition as structured data on the web. RDF - the data model - can state relations between certain entities. However, the RDF data model is useless without...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
TV Production Company Customizes Accounting System to Streamline Business Operations
White Papers RDF-USA is a subsidiary of RDF Media, a global TV production company headquartered in London that has produced programming for TV networks in the United States, the United Kingdom, and several other countries.
[October 1, 2009, 1:24]
Semantic labelling scheme for Web pages
News The Internet Content Rating Association released a new content labelling system on Tuesday, using RDF as the base for the new standard. However, it was only adopted by a minority of Web content providers, and ICRA hopes that the move to RDF will...
[July 12, 2005, 16:20]
A Possible Simplification of the Semantic Web Architecture
White Papers In the semantic web architecture, Web ontology languages are built on top of RDF(S). However, serious difficulties have arisen when trying to layer expressive ontology languages, like OWL, on top of RDF-Schema.
[January 13, 2005, 21:51]
Semantic Web gets nod from W3C
News The World Wide Web Consortium on Tuesday will publish recommendations for the Resource Definition Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), both key parts of its Semantic Web project. With two foundational technologies becoming standards...
[February 10, 2004, 9:50]
A Semantic Web Middleware for Virtual Data Integration on the Web
White Papers The proposed system allows retrieving data using SPARQL queries, data sources can register and abandon freely, and all RDF Schema or OWL vocabularies can be used to describe their data, as long as they are accessible on the Web.
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
Doubt cast over Web standard's ownership
News The RDF standard has been endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium, which evaluates and recommends standards for Web technologies. The patent may also infringe on the RDF Site Summary standard, a way to describe Web content that's written in...
[January 4, 2002, 9:38]
A Platform for the Development of Semantic Web Portals
White Papers For the time being, the main difference with respect to a traditional Web portal is based on technological aspects: traditional Web portals are based on standard Web technology (HTML, XML, servlets, JSPs, etc.semantic portals are based on that...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
E-Mail Address Extractor
Downloads E-Mail Address Extractor is capable of exporting lists of E-Mail addresses as plain text files, .TIFF image files, proprietary EAE .XML files, W3C RDF .XML files (http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/) or vCards (compliant with RFC 2425 and RFC 2426...
[September 13, 2008, 2:31]
Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Talkback ECM Report :: [OTEX] PureEdge and Open Text Partner on E-Forms Solutions http://www.ecmreport.com/index.php/articles/news/171 microsoft people's participation in the working groups adds witness: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-testcases-20040210...
[May 30, 2005, 20:49]
W3C advances Semantic Web drafts
News The OWL releases join another six Semantic Web updates that the W3C made early in the year of the Resource Description Framework (RDF): the RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax; Semantics; Primer; Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema; the...
[April 8, 2003, 14:55]
Berners-Lee sketches out plan for gov't data
News He also recommened that the Linked Data be presented in the resource description format (RDF), he added. RDF brings together a number of metadata web specifications developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international standards...
[June 26, 2009, 15:12]
Google: Semantic Web must overcome incompetence
News He stressed the importance of using persistent URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and RDF (Resource Description Framework) for identifying information. While you own the data that's fine, but when somebody breaks and says, 'If you use our...
[July 19, 2006, 10:05]
FeedReader Lite
Downloads FeedReader Lite supports RSS, ATOM, or RDF feeds. The UI navigation is quick so that you can read your feeds quickly on the go, add multiple feeds, find that feed instead of typing in the full URL, launch feeds links within the embedded web browser...
[July 21, 2009, 10:51]
RSSOwl
Downloads RSSOwl is a free RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Supported OS are Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. Some features are export of news to PDF, Import / Export with OPML and the full-text-search with syntaxhighlight.
[November 26, 2006, 6:00]
NewsTicker
Downloads An easy to use yet extremely useful RSS/RDF/ATOM news ticker with a nice Cocoa interface, voice control and iPod syncing.
[May 14, 2008, 8:00]
ONTOVIEWS - A Tool for Creating Semantic Web Portals
White Papers This paper presents a semantic web portal tool ONTOVIEWS for publishing RDF content on the web. ONTOVIEWS provides the portal designer with a content-based search engine server, Ontogator, and a link recommendation system server, Ontodella.
[January 13, 2005, 2:00]



