Vestforsk arranges the seminar "ISO 15926 and Semantic Technologies" these days (6th and 7th of Sept.). It is the 5th consecutive seminar and the sponsors are GDF Suez and the Norwegian Reseach Council.
The Internet has become an integral part of human life, yet the web still utilizes mundane interfaces to the physical world, which makes Internet operations somewhat mechanical, tedious, and less human-oriented.
A scientific paper from Vestlandsforsking has recently been highlighted by Science for Environment Policy, the European Commission's environmental news service for policy makers, distributed to over 14,000 subscribers.
SeSam4 is a project financed by the Norwegian Research Council under the VERDIKT programme. The projects main objective is to help provide SMEs with easier tools to realise some of the potentials of semantic technologies.
Senior researcher Rajendra A. Akerkar's new book "Knowledge-Based Systems" has just been published. It is written together with Priti Srinivas Sajja at the Sardar Patel University in India.
Researcher Svein Ølnes was invited by IDABC to give a presentation at the Semic.eu Advisory Group meeting in Brussels 15.10.09. The title of the presentation was "Semantics in Norway" and it was a brief overview of status and some important challenges.
