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Semantic Web: A Primer 2007-01-01 SlideShare

The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web in which information is machine processable (rather than being only human oriented), thus permitting browsers or other software agents to find, share and combine information more easily.

Tags: Web Content Management,

Rails Cookbook: Action Controller 2007-01-01 O'Reilly Media

In the Rails architecture, Action Controller receives incoming requests and hands off each request to a particular action. Action Controller is tightly integrated with Action View; together they form Action Pack. Action Controllers, or just "Controllers," are classes that inherit from ActionController::Base. These classes define the application's business logic. A real estate web application might have one controller that handles searchable housing listings, and another controller devoted to administration of the site. In this way, controllers are grouped according to the data they operate on. Controllers often correspond to the model that they primarily operate on, although this doesn't have to be the case.

Tags: Application Development

Authoring and Annotation of Web Pages in CREAM 2007-01-01 University of Karlsruhe

Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitute the basis for the Semantic Web. The paper provides a framework, CREAM, that allows for creation of metadata. While the annotation mode of CREAM allows to create metadata for existing web pages, the authoring mode lets authors create metadata - almost for free - while putting together the content of a page. As a particularity of the framework, CREAM allows to create relational metadata, i.e. metadata that instantiate interrelated definitions of classes in a domain ontology rather than a comparatively rigid template-like schema as Dublin Core. The paper discusses some of the requirements one has to meet when developing such an ontology-based framework, e.g. the integration of a metadata crawler, inference services, document management and a meta-ontology, and describe its implementation, viz.

Tags: Authoring Systems

OMV Analyzes Web Usage With SAS Web Analytics Solution 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

OMV is the leading oil and gas group in central and eastern Europe. Content managers wanted to know how many and what sort of people have seen the content they have published. Portal managers needed figures on the general traffic on the portal: how many people visited, where they came from, which campaigns were most and least successful, and other relevant aspects of portal usage. Portal administrators wanted to see figures on current data volume, and they wanted to be able to forecast trends to ensure that it has the capacity to meet future traffic loads. Customized SAS Web Analytics solution improved Web site design, provided better service and helped make marketing efforts more effective.

MSDN Webcast: Exploring Basic Features of the New Microsoft Expression Web (Level 200) 2006-12-15 01:00:19 Microsoft

Microsoft Expression Web is a new product that Web designers can use to easily and quickly produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites. In this webcast, the presenter discusses some of the basic features of this exciting new Web development tool, including powerful task panes and design tools for greater productivity, cross-browser validation features for Web standards, and sophisticated Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) design tools for page layout and formatting. In addition, the presenter compares how the features and performance of Expression Web stack up against the tools used today.

TechNet Webcast: Exploring the Future of Web Development and Management With Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 (Level 200) 2006-12-15 01:00:19 Microsoft

The presenter of this webcast explores the new Web development and management capabilities that will be available to administrators and developers with the release of Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7) for Windows Vista and Windows Server code-named "Longhorn". The presenter demonstrates the key changes in IIS 7. The webcast shows how the new componentized Web server architecture enables to customize IIS for a particular application by adding and removing IIS modules or replacing them with their own.

eCommerce 2.0 2006-12-07 Forrester Research

e-Commerce has been around for over a decade now. Online retail spending will near $100B in 2006 with close to 20% Y/Y growth. The Internet influences an increasing portion of total retail sales. Jupiter Research predicts the number to go from 27% in 2005 to over 50% in 2010. e-Commerce has become strategic.

Tags: Site Marketing, Collaborative Web

Forward-Thinking Passenger Transport Executive Chooses Content Management Solution and Attracts 460,000 New Customers in Five Months 2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft

The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (WYPTE) wanted to better promote the use of public transport in the West Yorkshire area. It wanted to devolve the responsibility of posting live content to the Metro Web site from a single Web master to a number of WYPTE staff. It also needed to ensure that the site was always up to date with accurate and meaningful information that was accessible to everyone. WYPTE approached Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Diagonal Solutions to redevelop its existing Web site by using Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Washington State University Uses FrontPage 2000 to Build and Manage Site 2006-11-29 01:00:19 Microsoft

In order to attract prospective students to its campus, Washington State University (WSU) Spokane relies heavily upon its Web site. Few years ago, the campus's Internet presence consisted of piecemeal and disjointed information, most of it designed by student contractors using a wide variety of development tools. As more and more people began getting online, it became clear that the campus needed a more sophisticated and integrated Web site. To upgrade the site, WSU decided to use the Microsoft FrontPage 98 Web site creation and management tool. In late 1999, the campus upgraded to FrontPage 2000, offering even more sophisticated tools to the members.

The Ten Minute Optimization REDUX 2006-12-07 01:00:20 StepForth Placement

Many small businesses simply do not have the resources to hire a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company to promote their web site. There are countless resources online for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) optimizers where professional SEO's offer general recommendations and advice. This paper offers more of the author's SEO experience in the form of a 10-minute optimization process.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Semantic Web: A Primer	2007-01-01	SlideShare
The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web in which information is machine processable (rather than being only human oriented), thus permitting browsers or other software agents to find, share and combine information more easily. Tags: Web Content Management,
Rails Cookbook: Action Controller	2007-01-01	O'Reilly Media
In the Rails architecture, Action Controller receives incoming requests and hands off each request to a particular action. Action Controller is tightly integrated with Action View; together they form Action Pack. Action Controllers, or just "Controllers," are classes that inherit from ActionController::Base. These classes define the application's business logic. A real estate web application might have one controller that handles searchable housing listings, and another controller devoted to administration of the site. In this way, controllers are grouped according to the data they operate on. Controllers often correspond to the model that they primarily operate on, although this doesn't have to be the case. Tags: Application Development
Authoring and Annotation of Web Pages in CREAM	2007-01-01	University of Karlsruhe
Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitute the basis for the Semantic Web. The paper provides a framework, CREAM, that allows for creation of metadata. While the annotation mode of CREAM allows to create metadata for existing web pages, the authoring mode lets authors create metadata - almost for free - while putting together the content of a page. As a particularity of the framework, CREAM allows to create relational metadata, i.e. metadata that instantiate interrelated definitions of classes in a domain ontology rather than a comparatively rigid template-like schema as Dublin Core. The paper discusses some of the requirements one has to meet when developing such an ontology-based framework, e.g. the integration of a metadata crawler, inference services, document management and a meta-ontology, and describe its implementation, viz. Tags: Authoring Systems
OMV Analyzes Web Usage With SAS Web Analytics Solution	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
OMV is the leading oil and gas group in central and eastern Europe. Content managers wanted to know how many and what sort of people have seen the content they have published. Portal managers needed figures on the general traffic on the portal: how many people visited, where they came from, which campaigns were most and least successful, and other relevant aspects of portal usage. Portal administrators wanted to see figures on current data volume, and they wanted to be able to forecast trends to ensure that it has the capacity to meet future traffic loads. Customized SAS Web Analytics solution improved Web site design, provided better service and helped make marketing efforts more effective.
MSDN Webcast: Exploring Basic Features of the New Microsoft Expression Web (Level 200)	2006-12-15 01:00:19	Microsoft
Microsoft Expression Web is a new product that Web designers can use to easily and quickly produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites. In this webcast, the presenter discusses some of the basic features of this exciting new Web development tool, including powerful task panes and design tools for greater productivity, cross-browser validation features for Web standards, and sophisticated Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) design tools for page layout and formatting. In addition, the presenter compares how the features and performance of Expression Web stack up against the tools used today.
TechNet Webcast: Exploring the Future of Web Development and Management With Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 (Level 200)	2006-12-15 01:00:19	Microsoft
The presenter of this webcast explores the new Web development and management capabilities that will be available to administrators and developers with the release of Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7) for Windows Vista and Windows Server code-named "Longhorn". The presenter demonstrates the key changes in IIS 7. The webcast shows how the new componentized Web server architecture enables to customize IIS for a particular application by adding and removing IIS modules or replacing them with their own.
eCommerce 2.0	2006-12-07	Forrester Research
e-Commerce has been around for over a decade now. Online retail spending will near $100B in 2006 with close to 20% Y/Y growth. The Internet influences an increasing portion of total retail sales. Jupiter Research predicts the number to go from 27% in 2005 to over 50% in 2010. e-Commerce has become strategic. Tags: Site Marketing, Collaborative Web
Forward-Thinking Passenger Transport Executive Chooses Content Management Solution and Attracts 460,000 New Customers in Five Months	2006-11-29 01:00:19	Microsoft
The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (WYPTE) wanted to better promote the use of public transport in the West Yorkshire area. It wanted to devolve the responsibility of posting live content to the Metro Web site from a single Web master to a number of WYPTE staff. It also needed to ensure that the site was always up to date with accurate and meaningful information that was accessible to everyone. WYPTE approached Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Diagonal Solutions to redevelop its existing Web site by using Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
Washington State University Uses FrontPage 2000 to Build and Manage Site	2006-11-29 01:00:19	Microsoft
In order to attract prospective students to its campus, Washington State University (WSU) Spokane relies heavily upon its Web site. Few years ago, the campus's Internet presence consisted of piecemeal and disjointed information, most of it designed by student contractors using a wide variety of development tools. As more and more people began getting online, it became clear that the campus needed a more sophisticated and integrated Web site. To upgrade the site, WSU decided to use the Microsoft FrontPage 98 Web site creation and management tool. In late 1999, the campus upgraded to FrontPage 2000, offering even more sophisticated tools to the members.
The Ten Minute Optimization REDUX	2006-12-07 01:00:20	StepForth Placement
Many small businesses simply do not have the resources to hire a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company to promote their web site. There are countless resources online for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) optimizers where professional SEO's offer general recommendations and advice. This paper offers more of the author's SEO experience in the form of a 10-minute optimization process.