W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences: Summary

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W3C Public Workshop on Semantic Web and
Life Sciences Features OWL, RDF, and
LSID

W3C Public Workshop on Semantic Web and
Life Sciences Features OWL, RDF, and
LSID 08/07/2004 06:59 AM
XMLMania.com Aug 7 2004 9:40AM GMT

Deadline Extension: Public Workshop on
Semantic Web for Life Sciences

Deadline Extension: Public Workshop on
Semantic Web for Life Sciences 09/02/2004 01:47 PM
2004-09-02: The deadline for position papers has been extended nine days to 15 September for the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences to be held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. Attendees will discuss how Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL and the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) help to manage modern life sciences research, enable disease understanding and accelerate the development of therapies. Read about W3C workshops and the Semantic Web. (News archive)

Call for Participation: Public Workshop
on Semantic Web for Life Sciences

Call for Participation: Public Workshop
on Semantic Web for Life Sciences 07/29/2004 10:21 AM
2004-07-28: Position papers are due 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences to be held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. Attendees will discuss how Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL and the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) help to manage modern life sciences research, enable disease understanding and accelerate the development of therapies. Read about W3C workshops and the Semantic Web. (News archive)

W3C Workshop on Web Applications and
Compound Documents: Summary and Papers

W3C Workshop on Web Applications and
Compound Documents: Summary and Papers 06/30/2004 09:50 AM
2004-06-16: The summary and minutes have been published from the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents held in San Jose CA, USA on 1-2 June. All of the 43 position papers are publicly available. The workshop concluded that W3C should consider starting work on a specification that combines W3C document formats for the mobile computing market, and should produce a roadmap for future work in Web applications. W3C thanks host Adobe Systems and all 60 attendees for their valued participation. Read about Workshops and Interaction at W3C. (News archive)

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues.

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues. 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
There is a growing user and business interest in being able to transport relevant information between sites. This obviously raises big security issues. The friend of a friend (FOAF)project is a practical experiment designed to identift and solve some of the problems arising from using semantic web technology. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Hub ranks top in life sciences

Hub ranks top in life sciences 06/08/2004 02:35 AM
Boston Globe Jun 8 2004 6:56AM GMT

As life sciences grow, so do the
challenges

As life sciences grow, so do the
challenges 06/28/2004 03:29 AM
Boston Globe Jun 28 2004 7:25AM GMT

IBM seeks business in life sciences

IBM seeks business in life sciences 12/23/2003 12:54 PM
ZDNet UK Dec 23 2003 11:23AM ET

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

[it's the danbri and Libby show!]

IBM looms large in life sciences quest

IBM looms large in life sciences quest 05/31/2004 06:45 AM
CNET May 31 2004 11:16AM GMT

Oracle Makes a Play for Life Sciences

Oracle Makes a Play for Life Sciences 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
The business software giant acquires SiteWorks Solutions to capitalize on drug companies that need to run clinical trials.

Nordson's Life Sciences launches new
portal

Nordson's Life Sciences launches new
portal 04/04/2005 06:46 AM
Computer Business Review Apr 4 2005 10:48AM GMT

UBI Adds Affordable Life Sciences
Products

UBI Adds Affordable Life Sciences
Products 12/19/2004 03:16 PM
reagents, consumables, and laboratory equipment provided [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Shaking up life sciences by crossing
disciplines

Shaking up life sciences by crossing
disciplines 06/09/2004 04:12 AM
Boston Globe Jun 9 2004 8:26AM GMT

Bioniche Life Sciences narrows Q1 loss
to $2.1M from $2.7M year ago

Bioniche Life Sciences narrows Q1 loss
to $2.1M from $2.7M year ago 11/06/2003 03:01 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Nov 6 2003 1:42AM ET

Shreya Chooses Sygenics Life Sciences
Software

Shreya Chooses Sygenics Life Sciences
Software 06/17/2005 06:23 PM
Shreya Com, part of the Moscow-based Shreya Group, has chosen Sygenics Life Sciences Software solution to speed its drug discovery and to manage its biggest asset; its research. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005]

IBM Rolls Out Alpha-Code Life Sciences
Tools

IBM Rolls Out Alpha-Code Life Sciences
Tools 05/06/2004 02:46 PM
Six new life sciences software packages are made publicly available by the tech giant to aid in biological research.

Study: Apple making its mark in life
sciences

Study: Apple making its mark in life
sciences 04/18/2005 03:12 PM
Research firm IDC found that scientists are moving to -- or considering -- the Macintosh platform because of Mac OS X and the G5 processor.

Celgene Will Present at Lazard Life
Sciences Conference

Celgene Will Present at Lazard Life
Sciences Conference 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Market Wire Nov 24 2004 9:50PM GMT

Inhibitex to Present at the Lazard Life
Sciences Conference

Inhibitex to Present at the Lazard Life
Sciences Conference 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Market Wire Nov 19 2004 8:56PM GMT

Entrez - The Life Sciences
Cross-Database Search Engine

Entrez - The Life Sciences
Cross-Database Search Engine 06/21/2004 05:55 AM
Entrez - The Life Sciences Cross-Database Search Engine
http://www.ncbi.n lm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Newsltr/FallWinter03/index.html
The Entrez search and retrieval system now offers a cross-database search that allows a single query to span the traditional NCBI-sequence databases; Nucleotide and Protein; the literature databases, such as PubMed®, PMC, Books, OMIM™, Journals, and MeSH; the structurally-oriented databases, Structures, the Conserved Domain Database, 3D-Domains; the NCBI Taxonomy, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), Population Sets, Genomes, Sequence Tagged Sites, UniGene, Gene-centered information (Gene), and, finally, the NCBI Web site itself. The cross database search option, labeled “Entrez” on the NCBI homepage search menu, replaces 'GenBank' as the default. This has been added to Biological Informatics, Deep Web Research and Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

News: Report: Apple making its mark in
Life Sciences

News: Report: Apple making its mark in
Life Sciences 04/18/2005 04:40 PM
Independent research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) recently finished work on a report commissioned by Apple that focused on the company's efforts in the scientific life sciences field. While the report was complimentary to many of Apple's accomplishments over the past few years it also pointed out some pitfalls the company would have to watch in the future. This, said an Apple executive, is just what Apple was looking for.

How America built its high-tech economy.
Technology Transfer in the Life-Sciences

How America built its high-tech economy.
Technology Transfer in the Life-Sciences 02/16/2004 08:12 PM
BioPortfolio Feb 17 2004 0:04AM GMT

DataCore's FDA Module Selected by Large
Life Sciences Manufacturers; Momentum
Continues

DataCore's FDA Module Selected by Large
Life Sciences Manufacturers; Momentum
Continues 06/05/2005 11:58 PM
DataCore Technology announced the selection of its FDA Module for Cyco AutoManager� Meridian by a global, tier-one pharmaceutical company for use in their numerous facilities world wide. [PRWEB May 31, 2005]

New Life Sciences-Information Technology
(LSIT) Global Institute to Establish
Universally Accepted IT Systems to Speed
Medical Products to Patients Worldwide

New Life Sciences-Information Technology
(LSIT) Global Institute to Establish
Universally Accepted IT Systems to Speed
Medical Products to Patients Worldwide 05/31/2004 01:47 PM
[PRWEB May 13, 2004]

Barrier Therapeutics to Present at
Pacific Growth Equities 2005 Life
Sciences Growth Conference

Barrier Therapeutics to Present at
Pacific Growth Equities 2005 Life
Sciences Growth Conference 06/05/2005 11:53 PM
Market Wire May 31 2005 2:39PM GMT

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web 12/28/2004 06:58 AM
Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool For the Semantic Web
http://kmi.open .ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html

Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user's behalf. Often, the existing technologies rely on one very specific ontology... To alleviate some of these issues, they started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing. Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given. The current set of concepts can be influenced by a selection of a particular ontology of concepts and relations. In addition to identifying the concepts-of-interest that are relevant from the perspective of a particular ontology, each such concept may provide an applicable set of relations or commands that can be executed. Such relationships are both, determined and evaluated dynamically by querying the ontology server. Another feature they believe improves the user's experience is the ability to turn the semantic menus ON or OFF, to highlight all instances belonging to a particular ontological class, to follow and semantically process the links embedded in the document. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme 05/08/2004 06:20 AM
Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme by Steve Cayzer
http://snipurl.com/66yj

Steve is a research engineer at Hewlett-Packard's (HP) laboratories in Bristol, England. He is interested in the intersection of semantic web technologies and machine learning techniques, such as automated classification and metadata enrichment. He also has a semantic blog. This paper is about semantic blogging, an application of the semantic web to blogging. The semantic web promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics. Blogging is a lightweight web publishing paradigm which provides a very low barrier to entry, useful syndication and aggregation behaviour, a simple to understand structure and decentralized construction of a rich information network. Semantic blogging builds upon the success and clear network value of blogging by adding additional semantic structure to items shared over the blog channels. In this way we add significant value allowing view, navigation and query along semantic rather than simply chronological or serendipitous connections. Our vision is to use semantic web tools and ideas to help move blogging beyond communal diary browsing to rich information sharing scenarios. We have built a simple prototype as an illustration of this vision. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

From Zend: A Summary of the Summary

From Zend: A Summary of the Summary 11/11/2002 09:09 AM

Are we semantic yet?

Are we semantic yet? 11/10/2003 11:15 PM
I'm about to agree with BurningBird (which I'm always happy to do since she's right so damn often) but in a way that neither of us is going to find very satisfying. IMO, she's right to point out that something important has already begun: My idea of semantic web is if I can look for a poem that uses a metaphor of bird as freedom, and get back poems that have bird as metaphor for freedom. But you know, I don't have to go everywhere in the web to look for this — if I could just do this at...

Do we need the Semantic Web?

Do we need the Semantic Web? 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
ZDNet Mar 12 2005 4:29AM GMT

Semantic Web gets nod from W3C

Semantic Web gets nod from W3C 02/10/2004 07:43 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 10 2004 10:53AM GMT

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 05/02/2004 11:55 PM
Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America's.

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 5/4

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 5/4 05/04/2004 02:33 AM
from the NYT (reg/req) .. Today

nytimes.com/2004/05/03/science/03RESE.html?hp
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Computer Sciences doubles pay of CEO

Computer Sciences doubles pay of CEO 06/30/2004 10:50 PM
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Jul 1 2004 3:31AM GMT

Computer Sciences Computes

Computer Sciences Computes 05/18/2004 02:49 PM
Everything adds up for the No. 3 IT services company.

Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 01/05/2005 06:40 AM
Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
http://www.jstage.jst.go .jp/browse/iis

The aim of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences is to promote high quality scholarship on important issues in information sciences, and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas on "Information" among disciplines so as to evolve new scientific research fields. The journal publishes papers which address topics of information and communication, computer science, information systems, and their impacts on the behavior and system of individual, groups, and society. Publisher: Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

"Bray on the Semantic Web."

"Bray on the Semantic Web." 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

Commercializing the Semantic Web

Commercializing the Semantic Web 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
In the first of his reports from the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, Kendall Clark discusses the path forward for successfully selling and developing Semantic Web technology into industry.
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