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make.tv: Short introduction into Social Semantic Web
My colleague Jana Herwig amazes me regularly in terms of being not only innovative but by implementing plans. Her latest gig: She produced a short movie on make.tv about our new book “Social Semantic Web”. (Sorry, clip & book are both in German) The cool thing about this tool is obviously that videos can be … Continue reading
Web Awareness Barometer
Call for participation (Open until Dec. 22, 2008): The survey aims to uncover the current state of information and awareness regarding the uses and areas of application of Social Software and Semantic Web technologies. A special focus is put in using these technologies in companies and public organisations. The survey is addressed to individuals from … Continue reading
New Springer-Book: Social Semantic Web
It took a while and I was waiting for the book to come like a child waiting for Christmas. But now it´s out – our new book: Social Semantic Web (Web 2.0 – was nun?). Web 2.0 – and now? This question is answered by 49 authors in 24 articles. One hypothesis which is discussed … Continue reading
Freebase Parallax: Browsing ad infinitum
Just recently an inspiring new user interface came out, which gives users an idea, that “googling” the web isn´t the ultimate way to find information on the web: Freebase Parallax by David Huynh. David was also strongly involved in some projects of CSAIL at MIT which also dealt with the “simple” question: How to make … Continue reading
Is there a Social Semantic Web?
From September 26 – 27 a Conference on the Social Semantic Web (CSSW) will be held in Leipzig. The conference will end with a panel discussion on the question “Is there a Social Semantic Web?”. My opinion is: Yes, there is only a social semantic web. The internet as a whole is of course a … Continue reading
Triple-I 2007: The next big discussion will be about privacy
First of all: I enjoyed this year´s Triple-I very much. I met a lot of friends and colleagues in Graz, had plenty of interesting discussions, I gave a talk about “Enterprise n+1″ (together with Franz Novak and Henry Story) and a semantic wiki tutorial (with Denny Vrandecic and Sebastian Schaffert), I have seen interesting keynotes … Continue reading
Web 2.0 meets the Semantic Web in September…
September 2007 will start with an exciting event (Triple-I in Graz/Austria) and will end with a top-class conference (Semantic Web Strategies, San Jose, CA) both dealing with questions about the applicability of the semantic web. Since the global semantic web community is growing fast (many new technologies, start ups and more or less mature systems … Continue reading
Scripting for the Semantic Web
This year´s ESWC hosted the 3rd International Workshop on “Scripting for the Semantic Web” (SFSW 2007). I really enjoyed that event, also because of the very friendly and relaxed atmosphere in that community. Danny Ayers started with a talk called “Two Webs!“. He pointed out the ways to use the “Semantic Web” (again: it´s NOT … Continue reading
Why Yahoo bought del.icio.us …
An outstanding talk at this year´s European Semantic Web Conference was Ron Brachman´s “Emerging Sciences of the Internet: Some New Opportunities“. Yahoo´s (and somehow this company has more and more to do with the Semantic Web…) Vice-President of Worldwide Research (with his strong background in the fields of AI and description logics) pointed out the … Continue reading
On top of the Viennese library
together with Leo Sauermann talking about the Semantic Desktop “war mir ein großes Volksfest”. Thanks Leo!
Semantic Puzzle
- Re-vamped PoolParty Knowledge Discoverer has been releasedPoolParty team has released a brandnew version of its knowledge discoverer to showcase the power of knowledge models in combination with linked data and text mining. First of all: PoolParty Knowledge Discoverer is more about collecting context information about documents … Continue reading →
- Has Google hi-jacked the Semantic Web?Just recently Google has launched the ‘Knowledge Graph‘ (GKG) which “understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings.” Has Google hi-jacked the idea of the ‘Semantic Web’ or at least its vocabulary? Sean Golliher has compared … Continue reading →
- PoolParty PowerTagging – bringing semantics to enterprisesPoolParty PowerTagging (PPP) is on its way: By extending Confluence´s label management, new application scenarios which make use of content recommendation and semantic indexing will be supported soon. PPP will be published at this year´s Atlassian Summit and at SemTechBiz … Continue reading →
- Exploiting Big Data: Linked Data and SKOSYesterday I gave a webinar covering the question which role SKOS plays in the linked data game. Just the day before I discovered an interesting white paper published by Fujitsu which clearly states that linked data and SKOS are excellent … Continue reading →
- reegle.info – linked (open) energy data cloudAccess to the latest high quality information on renewables, energy efficiency and climate change is fundamental to the acceleration of the clean energy marketplace, facilitating investments, promoting new legislation and regulations and broadening interest and knowledge in the sector. reegle.info … Continue reading →
- LOD2 Plenary Vienna (March 2012) – 3rd day – afternoon sessionPromising title. After two and a half day (well for almost all of us) we entered the final phase of the plenary. So two and a half days of intense and interesting discussions catching up with all that has been … Continue reading →
