Check out Rick Freedman's overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL, as well as two real-world applications that have emerged.

ReadWriteWeb republished some of its greatest hits of 2009 late last week, including this insightful look at the rapid evolution of the 'Web of Data.'

"In general, people are not going tag sentences or paragraphs.  Machines will... "

Advanced Trading's Ivy Schmerken offers a quick overview of Thomson Reuters improved machine-readable news offering, including its use of OneCalais, an internal corollary to OpenCalais.

Joss Winn proposes a ‘prototype demonstrator platform’ for JISC’s Funding Calls and Final Project Reports here.

ThisisBristol.co.uk has become the first of Northcliffe Media's local news sites to launch topic pages. Learn how they automated the process in this Journalism.co.uk story.

Marius Butuc a master's student in Iasi, Romania, shares this technical report.

OpenCalais makes ReadWriteWeb's list of the top Semantic Web products of 2009. See who else made the list.