Without complex decision trees helping computers determine what pieces of text relate to what, it's nearly impossible to make use of the wealth of data available on the web. In the case where you're ...

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I’ve been posting on the page semantic HTML markup several times previously: While the benefits for accessibility and usability are quite clear, there has never been any real evidence that there ...

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 Semantic Web, a concept tossed around for years as a Web extension to make it easier to find and group information, is getting a critical boost Tuesday from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

“Making standards is hard work,” writes Tim Berners-Lee in a recent blog post. And he should know. The creator of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is responsible for developing and popularizing some of ...

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee would like to see the global content network he helped develop turn into a giant transactional database. In a design paper written six years ago, Berners-Lee ...

Market expansion is fueled by the shift from traditional data storage toward systems that support knowledge graphs, ontology-based reasoning, linked data, and semantic enrichment of all information ...

Ubiquitous semantic interoperability is like world peace: It’s a goal so grandiose, nebulous and contrary to the fractious realities of distributed networking that it hardly seems worth waiting for.

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 ...