Semantic Web: increasing activity

‘”Semantic Technology is here.” That was the resounding message delivered at the 2008 Semantic Technology Conference (“SemTech”) that took place 18-22 May in San Jose, California.’  (said a member of the organizing committee)
There is increasing activity in the field of Semantic Web: Conferences, software development, websites (258,000 results for semantic web googled and 61,300,000 for [...]

Business Cycle Analysis Tool from Eurostat

Interested in the up- and downswings of European and national economies? Watch the Business Cycle Clock (BCC): Eurostat’s new graphical interface for displaying in an animated fashion developments of the Principal European Economic Indicators. Click on time and choice of indicators to compare your country with EU and USA!

GeoAnalytics based on Adobe´s Flash

http://vitagate.itn.liu.se/smartdoc/html/GAV-Flex-2008-08-04/OECDApplication.html
This is a new version of GeoAnalytics (the old one was presented at the OECD/Statistics Sweden Seminar recently) which use the same type of system as Gapminder for visualization. No installation of any program except for Flash. The interaction is quite good taking in consideration the big volumes of data. There are no Help menues yet but [...]