About the social semantic web
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My first experiences with Twine
Today finally I logged in to Twine the first time. I was reading yesterday about some shortcomings of the system, so I was keen on trying out the system by myself to get my own impression. It´s true that the system isn´t as easy to understand as del.icio.us or other bookmarking tools. It takes a … Continue reading
The “career” of a website can be strange sometimes…
When I first stumbled upon “StumbleUpon” about two years ago or so, I was fascinated by the idea of this application using “collaborative filtering” – the wisdom of the crowd. But after a while more and more friends were using del.icio.us, which wasn´t that brilliant at all to my opinion but simply more often used. … Continue reading
Zimbra is the Collaboration Suite for the Social Semantic Web
We´ve been using Zimbra since a couple of months now, and I think it´s a fantastic opportunity for each small or medium enterprise, especially when virtual teamwork becomes more and more important (like in my working environment), to make a step towards Web 2.0. Besides typical features a collaboration suite usually offers, Zimbra comes with … Continue reading
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
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
RDFa is on it´s way…
Maybe a year old now, but still a really useful Web-Service is provided by Elias Torres: His RDFa Extractor also shows how to insert HTML containing RDFa into a Sparql-Query. RDFa, what is this? Have a look at this short summary, and it´s also worth discussing about the co-existence between RDFa and microformats.
Video on the semantic social web
No doubt that Stefan Decker and Tom Gruber are the most influental persons in the involving semantic social web. Both are working on a unified view on folksonomies & ontologies, practical as well as formalistic aspects of the web and develop things like the “social semantic desktop” or “tag ontologies”. Tom Gruber´s presentation at ISWC … 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 →
