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NYT wedding announcements marry the semantic web. Everything You Wanted to Know About Semantic Technology, But Were Afraid to Ask (at SemTech 09) Editor’s note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write ‘Sponsor Posts’ and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. This one is by Hakia, one of the participants in the recent 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. Participants in the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference walked away considering fundamental questions about what is and isn’t semantic technology.

Bear in mind that semantic technology can be as heavy and stifling for any audience as stem-cell research can be to high-school students. Despite the positive outcome, some responses from the panelists made me wonder if we should go back to the basic question of, “What is semantic search?” Structured Data Folks, semantic technology is not structured data. Morphology Syntax Statistics Scalability. Columbia Tomorrow » The place to learn about growth and development in Columbia, MO. How The Semantic Web Will Change Information Management. Learning 2.0 @ SEMLS - Tagging.