I was recently asked by a reporter about when the term “Semantic Web” was first used.  I gave the usual answer - that it had been mentioned in “Weaving the Web” (1999) and that the usual “academic” citation was the Scientific American article (2001), but I know that some folks were using it well before […]

Under the gun for my editorial in IEEE Intelligent Systems, I decided I would continue with the “dark side” theme, and see if I could state it coherently in a form that non-PlanetRDF AI folks might understand.  I’m not sure if I did, but here’s a preprint of what I submitted (sorry about the length […]

Since I hear rumors are flying, I thought I had better fess up - I did indeed give a talk entitled “The Dark Side of the Semantic Web” at Edinburgh last week (download the slides - pdf - from here). However, before you all start to beat me up - let me point out that […]

Perhaps Bijan and I would be better off doing this on a mailing list - but blog to blog is sort of fun (and the Owl 1.1 list has not yet migrated to a public list - I’ll be happy to move this to public-owl-dev@w3.org once people are looking there).  Basically, Bijan points to two […]

I was totally frustrated that I was unable to stay at ISWC this year -unfortunately politics and science often go hand and hand, and I found myself in the vortex (no, not those politics, but I must admit it’s the first time in a long time I’ve enjoyed watching election returns come in). […]

It’s now official, MIT and Southampton have announced the formation of a “Web Science Research Initiative” to try to enhance research in Web-related areas (with Semantic Web clearly up there on the list).  The paper in Science back in August outlined the goals of Web Science (that paper is now available for free via the […]

OK, this isn’t really a Semantic Web post at all (sorry PlanetRDFers) but I thought I’d share the following odd fact…
I’m on my second week of travel going to various and sundry meetings.  Monday night, I was in a Hilton Garden Inn in Albany New York.  Hilton Garden Inn brags that every room has an […]

For a while now I have been using Google to find OWL during my demos.  If one uses a search key and “ext:owl” or “ext:rdf” one can find files with the searched term- and since most OWL users are ignoring the recommendation to use “rdf” as the extension and using “.owl” the ext:owl search tends […]

The paper “Creating a Science of the Web” came out in today’s edition of Science as planned.  Now Availble are:
A link to the paper good this week only (Aug 11-17)
A PDF version of the paper as it appeared  (which does look like a persistent link, and it didn’t ask me to log in, so I […]

Coming out in tomorrow, August 11 Science Magazine, an article entitled “Creating a Science of the Web” by TimBL, Wendy Hall, Me, Nigel Shadbolt and Danny Weitzner.  Link should be up tomorrow, those looking for a preview, there’s a short summary (giving me too much of the credit) on the RPI web site.