Semweb's core grammar is RDF, based on defining meaningful ontological statements as consisting of discrete “subjects,” “predicates,” and “objects,” and that each of those "parts of speech" can be given its own unique identity, designated with
Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group is designed to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries, & aiding decision-making in clinical research
The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) and its domain ontologies form the largest formal public ontology in existence today. They are being used for research and applications in search, linguistics and reasoning. SUMO is the only formal ontology that
At heart, a blog is just a database...But most blogs only divide up the information by time...for a reader, it's probably the least interesting way of reading. I've turned Ishbadiddle into a semantic web...categorized, coded, 1,385 keywords...
Products for discovering and storing metadata, natural language processing, & more. Third link's to Geospatial Semantic Web Blog w/update on Metalink's ability to map its descriptions into RDF.
datasets like Wikipedia Data Dumps, 2000 Movie Reviews, & UPC Database are difficult to recreate, have high levels of accuracy, are valuable...as this becomes easier to access, the value of these datasets decreases over time.
Many visitors to blogs are turning to feed readers for consuming their favorite content. Are we looking at a change in how we should judge the traffic of a Website? We are already seeing advertisements appear in feeds which helps solve the issue of moneti
5 problems we'lll likely run into..each problem is a side-effect of advances in technology, rushes to fill new niches, or the previous two plus the desire to make a quick dollar.
"I am interested in the step beyond that," he says, "where what is going on is not just a passive document, but an active computation, where people are using the Net to think of new things that they couldn't think of as individuals, where the Net thinks o
Freebase.com is home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons.
Freebase information is freely sharable under the Creative Commons Attribution license, and already has captured structured data from Wikipedia, four million songs, 100,000 restaurants and census information. Radar Networks, the other well funded steal
Emergent structure vs. intelligent design: This all reflects a fundamental if still incoherent debate. There's one school of thought that says that if you just collect enough data and throw enough algorithms at it, the inherent structure - and the underst
NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead... it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise in
The implicit web is all about the value that will accrue to an Internet user when their every action is tracked, recorded, and used to provide value back to that user.
Hillis has bigger fish to fry than self-programming gadgets. In the past, he's expressed a desire to create machines that transcend what he sees as the limitations of human beings. "I guess I'm not overly perturbed by the prospect that there might be some
Freebase, having suctioned up some freely available web databases (e.g., Wikipedia, Musicbrainz), structures the data by assigning "types" to entities, which automatically associates additional data that Freebase has defined as related to these "types." T
The Intellipedia consists of three wikis ...used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 16 agencies of the United States intelligence community and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant Commands, and federal depar
I've gotten hammered in the comments on my post about freebase for suggesting that the semantic web was only about controlled ontologies....What's going to be really interesting is to see how the Semantic Web technologies develop now that we have actual,
“We’re trying to create the world’s database, with all of the world’s information,” Mr. Hillis said. All of the information in Freebase will be available under a license that makes it freely shareable, Mr. Hillis said. In the future, he said, t
I do have to take issue with the good Mr. O'Reilly on one point - his contrast between a bottom-up approach in freebase and the opposite in the W3C's approach is almost diametrically out, he's seriously mislocating his elbow here. The Semantic Web languag
Why people would help either company build such a valuable database is unclear. At least with Freebase, people can take data out of it as well, so it has the potential to become a common asset the whole Web could benefit from. Once the database is fille
"People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics - everything rippling and folding and looking misty...integrated across a huge space of data..." Web 3.0 is a term that has been coined to describe
The Semantic Web will never work because it depends on businesses working together, on them cooperating. We are talking about the most conservative bunch of people in the world, people who believe in greed and cut-throat business ethics. And they're all g
Innovation in making data relevant to the one or two words that we type into a search engine is Web 2.0. Adding to the plethora of data is the advent of social networking, Ajax; shared apps across the back end internet cloud, there are already frameworks
A 5-minute video "brief" on semantic web/web 2.0, separation of form and content (XML, CSS), and the way "machine-readable" web content creates a reciprocity (mutual relationship) between human and machine, where both "use" each other.
Semantic Radar is a semantic metadata detector for Firefox...when detected, shows an icon in browser's status bar. Currently it supports SIOC, FOAF and DOAP metadata.
Since there is no one standardized approach for associating RDF compatible metadata with HTML, and since this is one of the most frequently asked questions on the RDF mailing lists, this document is provided as an outline of some RDF-in-HTML approaches th
N3 has been well received for its "scribblability", because it is much more compact and readble than XML RDF, and because it forms a good introduction into many key principles of the Semantic Web.
This is an introduction to Semantic Web ideas aimed at someone with experience in programming, perhaps with Web sites and scripting, who wants to understand how RDF is useful in practice. The aim is to give a feel for what the Semantic Web is, and allow o
This is a language which is a compact and readable alternative to RDF's XML syntax, but also is extended to allow greater expressiveness. It has subsets, one of which is RDF 1.0 equivalent, and one of which is RDF plus a form of RDF rules.