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.
DOD open-source memo could change software landscape
DOD has issued guidance that clarifies the use of open-source software.
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.
DOD's new rules promote open source
New guidance from Defense Department acting CIO David Wennergren says DOD should consider open-source software on equal footing with commercial offerings.
The high cost of failures on the network
The tools for maintaining a messaging environment during disasters or equipment outages are valuable, but restoring a failed implementation can still be expensive and time consuming, a new study states.
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.
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.
Business intell speeds Recovery Act reporting for DOE
The Energy Department is tracking its Recovery Act funding and reporting requirements via Oracle's automated Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
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.
Pentagon certifies Alfresco records management app
The Defense Interoperability Test Command has certified a records management module from Alfresco that runs in the background of each user's computer, rather than running as a separate application.
Necessity was the mother of many of DISA's apps
When the applications DISA needed weren't available or were too expensive, support branch team members built the apps themselves.
CIO Council set up Data.gov in two months, and third parties are putting the data to use
Data.gov, a one-stop shop for raw government data feeds, was set up in two months, giving visitors access to government information, with the possibility that they would reuse the data.
Project at a Glance: Data.gov
Data.gov is a registry of government data, both in its raw machine-readable formats and as part of online Web applications that can format search results for users.
Data.gov sets requirements on privacy, quality and security
When assembling the data feeds for Data.gov, the developmnent team contacted the chief data stewards for each agency, who in turn communicated with department and program managers for possible datasets.
DISA makes 50 applications available for others to use and improve
The Defense Information Systems Agency is taking a new approach that could promote the reuse of its applications at other agencies by making its internal software open source.
Windows 7: Not all that it's 'Cracked' up to be?
'Cracked' humor magazine reviews Windows 7, and is not impressed.
Up-front software costs a problem for government cloud providers
Server-huggers aren't the only ones wary of the lure of cloud computing. Software vendors also seem reluctant to hitch onto this latest trend.
States urged to create data catalogs
State and local governments should ramp up efforts to become more transparent, organization contends.
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