We had the kickoff meeting of the “GovDTF” Open Government Working Group on Thursday, Sept. 17th at 1pm as part of the OMG meeting in San Antonio, Texas.  The President’s open government initiative represents a real opportunity to make a difference and show the relevance of standards for open architectures.  The group refined the charter and started on the process of building the groups persona and web presense. The charter of the group is: ----------------------...More>>

In these troubled economic times it is encouraging to see an emerging technology really emerging and the  2009 Semantic Technology Conference demonstrated just such an emergence.  Consider that this is a long 4 day conference and attendance was up - topping out over 1100 - factoring in the number of travel budgets that have been cut this is significant.  There was also a meetup of local community meetups representing thousands of highly interested participants, the semantic web c...More>>