sl:creationDate : 2008-06-12
- NASA - Solar Probe Plus - Nasa plans to visit the sun
At closest approach, Solar Probe+ will be 7 million km or 9 solar radii from the sun. There, the spacecraft's carbon-composite heat shield must withstand temperatures greater than 1400o C and survive blasts of radiation at levels not experienced by any previous spacecraft. Naturally, the probe is solar powered.
The two mysteries prompting this mission are the high temperature of the sun's corona and the puzzling acceleration of the solar wind.
2008-06-12
- Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for Competition Policy - Being open about standards
'Where interoperability information is protected as a trade secret, there may be a lot of truth in the saying that the information is valuable because it is secret, rather than being secret because it is valuable... we should only standardize when there are demonstrable benefits, and we should not rush to standardize on a particular technology too early... I fail to see the interest of customers in including proprietary technology in standards when there are no clear and demonstrable benefits over non-proprietary alternatives.'"
2008-06-12
- Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab -New Scientist
2008-06-12
- Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases to RDF/OWL
2008-06-12
- A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life Sciences
The prototype we describe is a biomedical knowledge base, constructed for a demonstration at Banff WWW2007 , that integrates 15 distinct data sources using currently available Semantic Web technologies such as the W3C standard Web Ontology Language [OWL] and Resource Description Framework [RDF]. This report outlines which resources were integrated, how the knowledge base was constructed using free and open source triple store technology, how it can be queried using the W3C Recommended RDF query language SPARQL [SPARQL], and what resources and inferences are involved in answering complex queries. While the utility of the knowledge base is illustrated by identifying a set of genes involved in Alzheimer's Disease, the approach described here can be applied to any use case that integrates data from multiple domains.
2008-06-12
- Linked Data in Action: Library of Congress
2008-06-12
- Case Study: Enhancement and Integration of Corporate Social Software Using the Semantic Web
2008-06-12
- SPARQL/Extensions/SPARQLScript - ESW Wiki
2008-06-12
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