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Semantic Web News Archives for April 2008

Apr 29, 2008 | ZDNet Blogs

Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008

“Linked Data is the Semantic Web done as it should be. It is the Web done as it should be.”

The main programme of this year's World Wide Web Conference gets underway here in Beijing today , but ahead of that yesterday was devoted to workshops . via ZDNet Blogs

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet

Sun Apr 27, 2008

Sun Bloggers

Microformats go mainstream

I talked about Microformats in a post last year on web20expo. It appears that the technology is now going main stream. via Sun Bloggers

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, San Francisco Metro, San Francisco, CA

Fri Apr 25, 2008

Minding the Planet

Great Collective Intelligence Book; Includes a Chapter I Wrote

I highly recommend this new book on Collective Intelligence . It features chapters by a Who's Who of thinkers on Collective Intelligence, including a chapter by me about "Harnessing the Collective Intelligence ... via Minding the Planet

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Related Topix: Computers, Internet, Science / Technology, PC

Wed Apr 23, 2008

Marc's Voice

How to build the mesh - #3: Shared Structured Content Servers

Call it micro-content, micro-formats, tagging, meta-data, semantic web, shared knowledge bases or what have you - the idea is that content comes along with extra 'stuff' associated with it and that all that ... via Marc's Voice

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Mon Apr 21, 2008

Freshmeat

Cypher 1.1.8 beta

About: Cypher is an AI program that generates the .rdf and .serql representations of plain language input, allowing users to speak plain language to update and query databases. via Freshmeat

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Sat Apr 19, 2008

Kdedevelopers.org blogs

A Ruby Plasma Data Engine based on DBPedia SPARQL queries

Submitted by richard dale on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 19:08. KDE General I've been playing with using KIO::get() to make queries on the DBPedia SPARQL endpoint, parse the XML result set and convert it to be used by a ... via Kdedevelopers.org blogs

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Open Source Software, KDE, Pop/Rock, The Velvet Underground

Thu Apr 17, 2008

CNET News.com

On the road to the Semantic Web

“Sacramento is the capital of California.”

The Semantic Web has been just around the corner for a few years. It turns out that bringing a semantic layer of metadata to the Internet is like climbing a mountain in flip-flops. Last night, Semantic Web ... via CNET News.com

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Related Topix: Startups, Radar Networks, Science / Technology, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet

Tue Apr 15, 2008

Family Man Librarian

Having computers understand what humans write

“Look, putting angle brackets around things is not a technology, by itself. I'd rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write, than by forcing humans to write in ways computers can understand.”

Jon Udell of Microsoft recently referred back to a quote from Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, who stated the following in response to a question about RDF and the Semantic Web : "Look, putting angle brackets ... via Family Man Librarian

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Science / Technology, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Libraries

Sun Apr 13, 2008

World Wide Web Consortium

Six OWL 2 Drafts Published

The OWL Working Group published six drafts today related to the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: OWL 2 defines extensions to OWL , which is one of the core standards of the Semantic Web . via World Wide Web Consortium

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Fri Apr 11, 2008

Travel Distribution News

'We see TripIt as a small example of how the Semantic Web is developing'

It was in September last year when TripIt , the first online service that automatically organises all of travel information into a master travel itinerary - " no matter where you booked, was introduced. via Travel Distribution News

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Social Software

Thu Apr 10, 2008

Gilbane Report News

Semantic Technologies and our CTO Blog

We host a number of blogs, some more active than others. One of the least active has been our CTO blog . via Gilbane Report News

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Related Topix: Blog News, Science / Technology

Tue Apr 08, 2008

Law Librarian Blog

New Life for Good Old LC Subject Headings

Roy Tennant reports that LC's Ed Summers has launched http://lcsh.info/ to demonstrate what can be done with Library of Congress Subject Headings. via Law Librarian Blog

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Related Topix: Libraries, Science / Technology

Sun Apr 06, 2008

BlogHer

2007 Web Predictions

BlogHer Joo Khim at Clapping Trees , a blog that focuses on the effective use of design/learning methodologies and free software to enhance learning among students and working adults, alerted me to this report ... via BlogHer

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Related Topix: Blog News, Science / Technology, VoIP

Fri Apr 04, 2008

Bio IT World

Informatics Software with Semantic Technologies

IO Informatics has announced the latest version of their Sentient Suite informatics software. via Bio IT World

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Related Topix: IO Informatics, Startups, Science / Technology

Wed Apr 02, 2008

All in the <head>

Don't Import, Subscribe

All in the Ponderings & code by Drew McLellan Drew McLellan Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. via All in the <head>

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

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