A Semantic Portal for Fund Finding in the EU: Semantic Upgrade, Integration and Publication of Heterogeneous Legacy Data

FundFinder is a Semantic Web portal that allows searching for and navigating through information about funding opportunities. This application has been created following a set of techniques and using a set of tools for the upgrade of legacy content to the Semantic Web, including databases and semi-structured documents. This process consists in extracting and populating knowledge from heterogeneous information sources and making it available on the Web

Century-of-Information Research (CIR): a strategy for research and innovation in the Century of Information

It is estimated that more data will be produced in the next five years than in the entire history of human kind, a digital deluge that marks the beginning of the Century of Information. Through a year-long consultation with scientists throughout the UK research communities, a coherent strategy has been developed and presented here. The goals of the CIR Strategy are to facilitate the growth of UK research and innovation that is data and computationally intensive and to develop a new culture of digital-information judgement from the undergraduate level onwards that will equip research communities, businesses, government and society as whole, with the skills essential to compete and prosper in the Century of Information. Wiki for the community developing the Century of Information Research Strategy: http://wikis.nesc.ac.uk/escienvoy/Century_of_Information_Research_Strateg

Le Chiese ortodosse. [Reseña]

Reseña de Andrea PACINI, Le Chiese ortodosse, Elle-DiCi, collana «Religioni e Movimenti», Leumann 2000, 104 pp., 11,5 x 18,5, ISBN 88-01-02025-

WEAK-BEAM ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY ANALYSIS OF DEFECT CLUSTERS IN HEAVY-ION IRRADIATED SILVER AND COPPER

Web Services are interfaces to a collection of operations that are network-accessible through standardized XML messaging, and whose features are described using standard XML-based languages. Semantic Web Services (SWS) describe semantically the internal structure and the functional/nonfunctional capabilities of the services, facilitating the design and evaluation ofSWSs based on that semantic description of the features of the services. To enable users to design and compose SWSs at the knowledge level, the ODE SWS framework has been proposed. That framework uses problem-solving methods to describe the functional and structural features of the SWSs. In this work, we present a description of the ODE SWS environment as an implementation of the ODE SWS framework. Specially, we focus on the description of the capabilities of the SWSDesigner, the tool of the ODE SWS environment that enables users to design graphically SWSs through different but complementary views of the services