The PoolParty approach for efficient knowledge modeling is based on methods from text analytics and text mining linked data management SKOS thesaurus modeling ontology engineering and semantic wikis and recombines these techniques to a unique approach to create complex knowledge models which can be further used for all of the above mentioned tasks, semantic search, … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
together with Leo Sauermann talking about the Semantic Desktop “war mir ein großes Volksfest”. Thanks Leo!
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
It has always been worth using exalead from time to time to “exalead” (somehow that verb isn´t that popular as “to google”) one´s favourite search phrases (you usually type in when you start your computer in the morning . That´s because exalead finds sometimes really “new” websites for you when you´re a regular google-user. So, … Continue reading
One more reason to buy an Apple is Pathway: This program helps to navigate through Wikipedia in a bit more structured way. It visualises pathways through wikipedia and proposes interesting links to other wiki pages. After a while navigating through wikipedia users normally find themselves “totally lost in myriads of loosely related pages. What I … Continue reading
If you try to explain what the Semantic Web is all about, it always comes to things like “you will find things better in the semantic web…”. But what exactly is it, what you´ll find better? To my opinion it´s all about relationships – and that´s exactly, what transforms information into knowledge: To know, how … Continue reading