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SEKT keynote at ISWC
Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer, technical director of the SEKT project, gave a keynote at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference in Athens, USA this month.
SEKT eHealth article
The SEKT project is discussed in a recent article in eHealthNews, Europe's leading electronic forum for eHealth.
SEKT talks semantics with UK's Director magazine
Director, an influential magazine for UK business leaders, has published an article, Talking Semantics, on opportunities and prospects for semantic technology, including coverage of the SEKT project.
SEKT prizewinners at ESWC2006
The ESWC2006 conference was attended by over 300 researchers and practitioners this week. The SEKT project had high visibility, including winning the prizes for both best demonstration system and best poster.
EON2006 Workshop at WWW2006
SEKT co-organizes EON2006 Workshop at this years World Wide Web conference (WWW2006) in Edinburgh.
Semantic MediaWiki prototype online!
A prototype of the Semantic MediaWiki is online available at http://wiki.ontoworld.org
Journal of KM - SEKT special issue
The Journal of Knowledge Management has published a SEKT special issue.
European Semantic Systems Initiative launched
SDK, which is a cluster of the IST projects SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web has initiated a strategic alignment with the IST ASG project on adaptive services for Grids resulting in the formation of the European Semantic Systems Initiative (ESSI).
Library Management journal features SEKT
The latest issue of the Library Management journal features 2 articles based on SEKT's Digital Library case study.
SEKT bubbles at ESWC05
The SEKT project is making a strong contribution to the forthcoming ESWC05 conference through workshops, tutorials, papers and demonstrations.
Beyond search - Scientific American article endorses SEKT approach
A new article in Scientific American about next generation search identifies several key trends issues being addressed by the SEKT project.
SEKT article in Information Economics Journal
John Davies, SEKT Project Director was interviewed for an article in the December issue of Information Economics Journal.
SEKT tutorials available online
SEKT video tutorials at http://seminars.ijs.si/sekt/
Presenting Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies
The purpose of the semantically enabled knowledge technologies (SEKT) project is "to equip European industry for a future of more effective knowledge management in the emerging knowledge economy," says project director Dr. John Davies of BT Exact. The augmentation of knowledge discovery, organization, and sharing that SEKT is concentrating on will be effected by the Semantic Web, the semantic annotation of online data to facilitate the creation and dissemination of information that machines can understand.
SEKT on IST News
Only nine months after its launch, SEKT, a key European semantic Web research project, has had no fewer than eight submissions to a premier international conference accepted. [...]
SEKT member York Sure is awarded with IBM UIMA Award 2006
The SEKT member York Sure from the Institute AIFB at University of Karlsruhe has been awarded with the highly competitive IBM UIMA Award 2006.
Bringing the Semantic Web to Industry - SEKT organises Semantic Web Industry Day at WWW 2006
Book: Semantic Web Technologies : Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems
The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written, automating the analysis and exploitation of web-based information.
Over 300 delegates discussed the next generation of the web at the European Semantic Web conference
The 3rd European Semantic Web Conference took place from 11th -14th of June, in the Montenegrin town of Budva. Over 300 semantic technology researchers and practitioners took part.