semantic web

Why the term “Linking Open Data” might be misleading

A lot of activities around Linking Open Data (“LOD”) and the associated data sets which are nicely visualised as a “cloud” are going on for quite a while now. It is exciting to see how the rather academic “Semantic Web” and all the work which is associated with this disruptive technology can be transformed now … Continue reading »

Linked Data: Standing on the shoulders of giants

When Mariano Consens explained at this year´s Triplify Challenge @ I-Semantics in Graz how he built together with Oktie Hassanzadeh the winning project “Linked Movie Database“, one important thing became clear to me: Linked Data isn´t just a playground anymore, no: it´s a very efficient way to build useful applications standing on the shoulders of giants. … Continue reading »

Become a Web Expert!

The Semantic Web has evolved constantly over the last few years. Nevertheless, in many cases I have experienced a huge demand for profound knowledge in this area. Many potential end-users of semantic web technologies have quite a few ideas of how to apply semantic web, but still many software-projects will never happen, because of the … Continue reading »

3 Semantic Apps to Watch

As mentioned on Read/WriteWeb there are at least 10 (rather commercial) semantic web applications “around” which claim to use semantic web technologies for different purposes: “10 Semantic Apps to Watch”. (Besides this at least 100 prototypes from various research programms exist in this field). My “short list” of those 10 apps consists of the following … Continue reading »

Visiting the cradle of human kind

I spent the last few days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It wasn´t a holiday trip at all, no – it was my first business trip to Africa. The project I am working for is the “Nile Basin Initiative” (NBI). This partnership was initiated and is led by the riparian states of the Nile River (like … Continue reading »

Semantic Web is the right exit scenario

Yahoo Researcher Declares Semantic Web Dead – and reborn again…

When Mor Naaman from Yahoo said in a special track on Web 3.0 at WWW2007 that the “Semantic Web” is dead, he obviously tried to attract attention. Nevertheless, in my opinion he is absolutely right – there is no chance to “teach” people to annotate web content in a more sophisticated way than “social tagging” … Continue reading »

RDF-Data is the Next Intel Inside…

…is the ultimative design pattern for the Semantic Web. In search for high quality data W3C provides a platform called “Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web“. Some basic datasets like geographic or encyclopedic information are already available. The more meshups from that datasets people will build the more data will be available, and so … Continue reading »

Reminder: Call for papers TRIPLE-I

TRIPLE-I The Innovation Conference for Knowledge Management, New Media Technology and Semantic Technologies 5 – 7 September 2007 Graz, Austria http://www.triple-i.info The TRIPLE-I Conference series is a joint venture of the conferences   I-KNOW – International Conference on Knowledge Management   I-MEDIA – International Conference on New Media Technology   I-SEMANTICS – International Conference on … Continue reading »

Semantic Search for the WWW2007

When I tried to figure out which tendencies, hot topics and trends at the upcoming WWW2007 will be discussed, I first looked up the official website of the conference. I thought to myself – why isn´t there a semantic search implemented for the WWW2007? But the weblog revealed: There is one! After doing some research … Continue reading »