How the Semantic Web would work
Rendering data into the Resource Description Framework can make it easier to interpose it with other sets of data to create entirely new datasets and visualizations, researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute said during a demonstration.
The Web's next act: A worldwide database
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Web, wants to create a worldwide Web database, and he wants government agencies to lead the way.
ICANN approves non-Latin characters for domain names
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is opening the Web to millions of users by allowing the use of any of the world’s language scripts in the domain names of Uniform Resource Locators, the Internet addresses also known as URLs.
Cloud computing could generate big-time savings
A Booz Allen Hamilton analysis quantifies the potential savings agencies could get on hardware and support costs by moving to cloud computing.
Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-readable Web still a ways off
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, who has been promoting the idea of a machine-readable, or semantic, Web, says the effort still faces a lot of challenges, among them Web managers' lack of familiarity with the Resource Description Framework.
White House shift to open-source Web system draws mostly praise
The White House's recent deployment of the Drupal open-source content management system for its Web site has created a stir among industry observers, who speculate that the move may portend a shift towards more government use of open-source, social media and emerging semantic Web technologies.
Can your computer read a Web page without your help? Soon it might.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been promoting the idea of making the Web machine-readable, or a Web of data. What does that mean? After all, at least in one sense, the Web is already being read by a machine -- namely your own computer -- when you surf the Web.
Government transparency exposes new IT challenges
GSA's David McClure outlines IT issues requiring added attention during panel on collaboration and transparency at IAC-ACT's Executive Leadership Conference.
Cloud computing: Winners and losers
Technology companies that expect to beneift from cloud computing must creatively adapt licensing, pricing and revenue models.
Army sees benefits in social-media presence
Online social-networking tools are playing an increasingly important part of the U.S. Army’s strategy for communicating with the public.
8 myths of cloud computing
The hype around cloud computing has made vendors so desperate for a piece of the action that they have blurred distinctions and adapted definitions to suit their own ends. Cloud computing expert Tarak Modi dispels eight myths.
DOE explores cloud computing for big science
The Energy Department will deploy cloud test beds with advanced computing and storage capacity at the Argonne and Lawrence Berkeley national labs to explore the demand for — and feasibility of — cloud computing in large scale scientific experiments.
Service agencies conjure their own clouds
As most agency IT managers start to test cloud offerings, government IT service providers, such as the National Business Center, DISA and GSA, are jumping in, offering their own government-focused cloud services.
National Business Center's cloud computing effort is worth watching
What makes the National Business Center's approach to cloud computing worth watching is how naturally it extends from — and enhances — NBC’s existing business and operations model. As a result, NBC’s initiatives are likely to mature faster than the cloud computing pilot programs taking root elsewhere in government.
Resource description tool can add smarts to your Web pages
The rule-keepers of the Web have proffered a working draft of a standard that would allow Web managers to incorporate a bit of dormant intelligence into their Web sites.
Teamwork takes center-stage at GCN Awards Gala
Members of the government IT community gathered in Washington to honor the project teams and individuals whose work earned them GCN Awards for Agency IT Achievement.
Analysts predict feds could save big money with cloud computing
Federal agencies could eventually save 85 percent of their yearly IT infrastructure budgets by moving operations to either a public, private or hybrid cloud, according to a study by Booz Allen Hamilton.
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