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If you have a good idea for some software that you want to market but don't have the programming skills or time to develop it yourself - contact us. Possibly you require some customized software that is specific to your business needs.

Neon Ant Software are skilled in development and have the expertise to provide clients with the software that they require. Most development is done in Microsoft Visual Basic on Windows platforms but other languages and platforms can also be handled, however, efforts are being made to concentrate and specialize in an area and produce good results.

Software that is written for clients is theirs to sell and they receive complete source code. Most customers have ideas for programs that they would like researched and then developed, with their ultimate goal being to sell the products via the Web or CD. In these cases, Neon Ant Software can implement various software protection mechanisms, including serial keys, activation keys, encryption and more or we can implement existing commercial protection of your choice. This can be combined with e-commerce websites that are capable of handling credit cards and providing for product activation automatically.

Other customers simply require some custom software for their business. By speaking with us, customers can make good use of our knowledge and experience to discover what is actually possible. Many times, customers are pleasantly surprised that there is a better way to achieve the goal that they had envisioned. This often exceeds their expectations.

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Creative Commons' ccRel vocabulary published
Creative Commons has published a member submission by W3C: "ccREL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language". The document introduces the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL), the vocabulary recommended by Creative Commons for machine-readable expression of copyright licensing terms and related information. The language is based on RDF and the document also includes recommendations on how to encode ccRel information in different formats.

Five POWDER Documents published including three Last Call Drafts
W3C’s Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group has published five Working Drafts. The purpose of the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata. The following documents have been published: Description Resources (Last Call); which details the creation and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs), which encapsulate metadata Grouping of Resources (Last Call); which describes how sets of IRIs can be defined such that descriptions or other data can be applied to the resources obtained by dereferencing IRIs that are elements of the set. Formal Semantics (Last Call); which describes how the relatively simple operational format of a POWDER document can be transformed for processing by Semantic Web tools Primer (First Public Draft) Test Suite (First Public Draft) Last Call comments are welcome through 14 September.

New SW Case Study: help tourists in Zaragoza
A group of experts from the municipality of Zaragoza and the CTIC foundation published a new Semantic Web Use Case, as part of the SW Case Study and Use Case collection. It describes an eTourism application: users can personalize their city tour using a specialized service (called “CRUZAR”) that integrates relevant databases (with RDF and specialized Ontologies), and that translates the users’ wishes and profiles in a set of rules on those data. A matching algorithm is then run to produce a personalized itinerary.

W3C Organizes Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I to Focus on Oil and Gas
W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil & Gas to be hosted by Chevron in Houston, Texas, USA on 9-10 December 2008. Participants will explore how Semantic Web technologies can play a role in the management and analysis of the huge amounts of data gathered from highly diverse sources in this sector of the energy industry. Position papers are due 19 September.

RIF Last Call and new WDs
Not satisfied until it had achieved perfection, the long-awaited last call drafts of the RIF Basic Logic Dialect (BLD) and RDF + OWL Compatibility (SWC) have been published. The drafts reflect the result of either widespread consensus on numerous technical issues or sheer exhaustion - you be the judge! The working group seeks feedback on these drafts as the last call status indicates the design is believed to be stable and complete. In conjunction with the last call drafts, the working group also published the highly anticipated first working draft of the RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD), as well as the BLD companion documents Datatypes and Builtins (DTB), and Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD). Finally, a new, improved and updated version of the RIF Use Cases and Requirements (UCR), that now uses BLD presentation and XML syntax in the examples.