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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
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
On top of the Viennese library
together with Leo Sauermann talking about the Semantic Desktop “war mir ein großes Volksfest”. Thanks Leo!
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
Yet another search interface for wikipedia?
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
Navigating Wikipedia with a little help from a visualisation
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
Semantic Web is about Knowledge relationship discovery
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
Semantic Wikipedia Query
Semantic Wikipedia Query is based on dbpedia.org, which is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia (~ 91. mio. triples) and to make this information available on the Web. It allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data. This project shows why … Continue reading
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 →
