Semantic Web

  • Most Topular Stories

  • Linked Data Platform Working Group Launched

    Semantic Web Activity News
    Ivan Herman
    10 May 2012 | 4:57 am
    The W3C launched the new Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group to promote the use of linked data on the Web. Per its charter, the group will explain how to use a core set of services and technologies to build powerful applications capable of integrating public data, secured enterprise data, and personal data. The platform will be based on proven Web technologies including HTTP for transport, and RDF and other Semantic Web standards for data integration and reuse. The group will produce supporting materials, such as a description of uses cases, a list of requirements, and a test suite…

  • Google bringing new smarts to search with Knowledge Graph - CNET

    semantic web - Google News
    16 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    ABC NewsGoogle bringing new smarts to search with Knowledge GraphCNETManzel pitches Knowledge Graph without using the word "semantic" even once. While he says, "I dream of the semantic Web," he takes pains to point out that what Google is announcing today is not what people talk about when they discuss semantic Web Google to unveil search results overhaulFinancial TimesWith Knowledge Graph, Google Wants Search to Be a Learning ExperienceThe Atlantic WireGoogle Gets Semantic, Launches Knowledge Graph Starting TodayAll Things DigitalWired News (blog)all 223 news…

  • Data Complexity of Query Answering in Expressive Description Logics via Tableaux

    Semantic Web News
    16 May 2012 | 8:40 am
    Journal of Automated Reasoning , Vol. 41, No. 1. , pp. 61-98, doi:10.1007/s10817-008-9102-9 The logical foundations of the standard web ontology languages are provided by expressive Description Logics , such as and .

  • Edamam’s Semantic Smarts Help Serve Up Dinner Plans

    semanticweb.com
    Jennifer Zaino
    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Edamam wants to be the one place where all the food knowledge of the world is organized. That’s the goal of co-founder and CEO Victor Penev, who launched the site in April, and recently updated the several hundred major recipe sites in its knowledge base to also include some smaller blog sites that add additional variety. Semantic technology is helping the company reach its goal. “A big problem is that data about food is very messy,” says Penev. “It’s hard to find something, what you find often contradicts other information of what is good for you and what the calories are. So we…

  • Edamam’s Semantic Smarts Help Serve Up Dinner Plans

    semanticweb.com
    Jennifer Zaino
    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Edamam wants to be the one place where all the food knowledge of the world is organized. That’s the goal of co-founder and CEO Victor Penev, who launched the site in April, and recently updated the several hundred major recipe sites in its knowledge base to also include some smaller blog sites that add additional variety. Semantic technology is helping the company reach its goal. “A big problem is that data about food is very messy,” says Penev. “It’s hard to find something, what you find often contradicts other information of what is good for you and what the calories are. So we…
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Semantic Web Activity News

  • Linked Data Platform Working Group Launched

    Ivan Herman
    10 May 2012 | 4:57 am
    The W3C launched the new Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group to promote the use of linked data on the Web. Per its charter, the group will explain how to use a core set of services and technologies to build powerful applications capable of integrating public data, secured enterprise data, and personal data. The platform will be based on proven Web technologies including HTTP for transport, and RDF and other Semantic Web standards for data integration and reuse. The group will produce supporting materials, such as a description of uses cases, a list of requirements, and a test suite…

  • Three RDFa Specifications are Proposed Recommendations

    Ivan Herman
    8 May 2012 | 12:14 pm
    The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Proposed Recommendations for RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1 and how the language is intended to be used in XML documents. RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple subset of RDFa for novice web authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the usage of RDFa in the XHTML markup language. The group also published a draft of the RDFa 1.1 Primer today.

  • The PROV ontology – an update

    Paul Groth
    4 May 2012 | 4:26 am
    The W3C Provenance working group has released a new set of working drafts for the PROV standard. In this post we present a brief overview of the PROV ontology (PROV-O) using an example from the PROV primer. The core classes of PROV include the prov:Entity, prov:Activity and prov:Agent. Using these, one can describe the provenance of a resource in a brief, step-by-step manner. The example below, as explained in the primer, shows how the chart ex:chart1 in a fictional news article about crime figures has been made by ex:Derek, who has also composed data items ex:dataSet1 and ex:regionList.

  • What is new in the Fourth Working Draft of the PROV provenance model?

    Luc Moreau
    3 May 2012 | 12:14 pm
    The Provenance Working Group has released the fourth public working draft of its data model. The purpose of this blog is to summarize the changes that occurred since the third working draft. From an editorial perspective, three significant changes took place since the last release. The document has been reorganized into three separate documents. The data model document focuses on defining the vocabulary, in terms of its types and relations. A second document lists the contraints that should be checked to determine if provenance descriptions are valid. Finally, a third documentpresents the…

  • PROV: synchronized and ready for your input

    Paul Groth
    3 May 2012 | 11:54 am
    Back in January, the Provenance Working Group released a series of draft specifications: the PROV family of specs. Since then, we’ve been working hard to simplify, organize and improve those specifications to enable the interchange of provenance information on the Web. The group is happy to release a complete set of specifications for modeling provenance information designed for the Web. These specifications are synchronized and can be read and used as a whole. We’ve included starting points, more examples, clearer guidance and a modular structure. In the rest of this post…
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    semantic web - Google News

  • Google bringing new smarts to search with Knowledge Graph - CNET

    16 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    ABC NewsGoogle bringing new smarts to search with Knowledge GraphCNETManzel pitches Knowledge Graph without using the word "semantic" even once. While he says, "I dream of the semantic Web," he takes pains to point out that what Google is announcing today is not what people talk about when they discuss semantic Web Google to unveil search results overhaulFinancial TimesWith Knowledge Graph, Google Wants Search to Be a Learning ExperienceThe Atlantic WireGoogle Gets Semantic, Launches Knowledge Graph Starting TodayAll Things DigitalWired News (blog)all 223 news…

  • Students Learn HTML5 Programming in New Global Knowledge Course - EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Students Learn HTML5 Programming in New Global Knowledge CourseEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)Students will learn to use HTML5 to create a web application within the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 integrated development environment. They will use new HTML5 semantic and structural elements, and they will create web forms using the validation and more »

  • The semantic web: Can it make Google as smart as IBM Watson? - ExtremeTech

    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    ExtremeTechThe semantic web: Can it make Google as smart as IBM Watson?ExtremeTechUnfortunately, we can't all have our own Watson — at least not anytime soon — but the internet industry is trying to help us get similar results using semantic search, building on a much broader set of technologies loosely called the semantic web.

  • Students Learn HTML5 Programming in New Global Knowledge Course - MarketWatch (press release)

    15 May 2012 | 10:34 am
    Students Learn HTML5 Programming in New Global Knowledge CourseMarketWatch (press release)Students will learn to use HTML5 to create a web application within the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 integrated development environment. They will use new HTML5 semantic and structural elements, and they will create web forms using the validation and more »

  • Neodata Group Acquires Newscurve - MarketWatch (press release)

    15 May 2012 | 3:32 am
    Daily Research News OnlineNeodata Group Acquires NewscurveMarketWatch (press release)Neodata Group's editorial suite for online publishers utilizes text-mining, semantic analysis and real-time web metrics to provide actionable recommendations to editors, helping them to better engage their readers by matching individuals with the Neodata buys editorial analytics agency NewscurveResearch Magazineall 11 news articles »
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    semanticweb.com

  • Edamam’s Semantic Smarts Help Serve Up Dinner Plans

    Jennifer Zaino
    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Edamam wants to be the one place where all the food knowledge of the world is organized. That’s the goal of co-founder and CEO Victor Penev, who launched the site in April, and recently updated the several hundred major recipe sites in its knowledge base to also include some smaller blog sites that add additional variety. Semantic technology is helping the company reach its goal. “A big problem is that data about food is very messy,” says Penev. “It’s hard to find something, what you find often contradicts other information of what is good for you and what the calories are. So we…

  • Open Data Processing Done Right

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Andrea Di Maio of Gartner recently articulated concerns about open data processing, particularly the divide between data professionals who have the skills to do so and those who do not. Di Maio writes, “Over the last four years open government and open data have been at the forefront of the debate on how governments can become more transparent, participative and efficient. The theory is well known: rather than (or alongside) providing the government’s interpretation or packaging of public data, this data should be made available in raw, open format for people to build their own views…

  • Spanish DBpedia Launched

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A new article reports, “After months of gratuitous hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French… DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia…

  • The Semantic Link on Financial Services with Guest, Lee Feigenbaum – May, 2012

    Eric Franzon
    15 May 2012 | 2:30 pm
    On Friday, May 11, a group of Semantic Technology thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about Semantics in the Financial Services Industry, and “the Linkers” were joined by special guest, Lee Feigenbaum, VP Marketing & Technology at Cambridge Semantics. Lee shared insights gained over many years working in the semantic technology field and with numerous customers in the financial…

  • Brazil Launches Open Data Portal

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation reports, “Last Friday (May 4), the Ministry of Planning in Brazil launched the final version of the Brazilian Open Data Portal. In line with the federal government policy to promote the use of free software in public administration, the portal was made using only free and open source tools. Among them is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open-source data portal software CKAN. Moreover, the whole process of development of the portal was conducted with the participation of concerned citizens in an open way to promote open data.”…
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    semanticweb.com

  • Edamam’s Semantic Smarts Help Serve Up Dinner Plans

    Jennifer Zaino
    16 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Edamam wants to be the one place where all the food knowledge of the world is organized. That’s the goal of co-founder and CEO Victor Penev, who launched the site in April, and recently updated the several hundred major recipe sites in its knowledge base to also include some smaller blog sites that add additional variety. Semantic technology is helping the company reach its goal. “A big problem is that data about food is very messy,” says Penev. “It’s hard to find something, what you find often contradicts other information of what is good for you and what the calories are. So we…

  • Open Data Processing Done Right

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Andrea Di Maio of Gartner recently articulated concerns about open data processing, particularly the divide between data professionals who have the skills to do so and those who do not. Di Maio writes, “Over the last four years open government and open data have been at the forefront of the debate on how governments can become more transparent, participative and efficient. The theory is well known: rather than (or alongside) providing the government’s interpretation or packaging of public data, this data should be made available in raw, open format for people to build their own views…

  • Spanish DBpedia Launched

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A new article reports, “After months of gratuitous hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French… DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia…

  • The Semantic Link on Financial Services with Guest, Lee Feigenbaum – May, 2012

    Eric Franzon
    15 May 2012 | 2:30 pm
    On Friday, May 11, a group of Semantic Technology thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about Semantics in the Financial Services Industry, and “the Linkers” were joined by special guest, Lee Feigenbaum, VP Marketing & Technology at Cambridge Semantics. Lee shared insights gained over many years working in the semantic technology field and with numerous customers in the financial…

  • Brazil Launches Open Data Portal

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation reports, “Last Friday (May 4), the Ministry of Planning in Brazil launched the final version of the Brazilian Open Data Portal. In line with the federal government policy to promote the use of free software in public administration, the portal was made using only free and open source tools. Among them is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open-source data portal software CKAN. Moreover, the whole process of development of the portal was conducted with the participation of concerned citizens in an open way to promote open data.”…
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Industry News - semanticweb.com

  • Open Data Processing Done Right

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Andrea Di Maio of Gartner recently articulated concerns about open data processing, particularly the divide between data professionals who have the skills to do so and those who do not. Di Maio writes, “Over the last four years open government and open data have been at the forefront of the debate on how governments can become more transparent, participative and efficient. The theory is well known: rather than (or alongside) providing the government’s interpretation or packaging of public data, this data should be made available in raw, open format for people to build their own views…

  • Spanish DBpedia Launched

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A new article reports, “After months of gratuitous hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French… DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia…

  • The Semantic Link on Financial Services with Guest, Lee Feigenbaum – May, 2012

    Eric Franzon
    15 May 2012 | 2:30 pm
    On Friday, May 11, a group of Semantic Technology thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about Semantics in the Financial Services Industry, and “the Linkers” were joined by special guest, Lee Feigenbaum, VP Marketing & Technology at Cambridge Semantics. Lee shared insights gained over many years working in the semantic technology field and with numerous customers in the financial…

  • Brazil Launches Open Data Portal

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation reports, “Last Friday (May 4), the Ministry of Planning in Brazil launched the final version of the Brazilian Open Data Portal. In line with the federal government policy to promote the use of free software in public administration, the portal was made using only free and open source tools. Among them is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open-source data portal software CKAN. Moreover, the whole process of development of the portal was conducted with the participation of concerned citizens in an open way to promote open data.”…

  • Paper: Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks, a paper that was presented at Museums and the Web 2012, is now available online. The paper was written by Katerina Tzompanaki, Martin Doerr Institute of Computer Science, F.O.R.T.H. Crete–Greece. The abstract states, “The upcoming large-scale metadata repositories, semantic networks of Resource Description Framework triples integrating large amounts of cultural–historical data, are not easily accessible to global query paradigms, such as ‘query by example’ or keyword search. ISO21127 (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model) is an…
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Industry News - semanticweb.com

  • Open Data Processing Done Right

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Andrea Di Maio of Gartner recently articulated concerns about open data processing, particularly the divide between data professionals who have the skills to do so and those who do not. Di Maio writes, “Over the last four years open government and open data have been at the forefront of the debate on how governments can become more transparent, participative and efficient. The theory is well known: rather than (or alongside) providing the government’s interpretation or packaging of public data, this data should be made available in raw, open format for people to build their own views…

  • Spanish DBpedia Launched

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A new article reports, “After months of gratuitous hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French… DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia…

  • The Semantic Link on Financial Services with Guest, Lee Feigenbaum – May, 2012

    Eric Franzon
    15 May 2012 | 2:30 pm
    On Friday, May 11, a group of Semantic Technology thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about Semantics in the Financial Services Industry, and “the Linkers” were joined by special guest, Lee Feigenbaum, VP Marketing & Technology at Cambridge Semantics. Lee shared insights gained over many years working in the semantic technology field and with numerous customers in the financial…

  • Brazil Launches Open Data Portal

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation reports, “Last Friday (May 4), the Ministry of Planning in Brazil launched the final version of the Brazilian Open Data Portal. In line with the federal government policy to promote the use of free software in public administration, the portal was made using only free and open source tools. Among them is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open-source data portal software CKAN. Moreover, the whole process of development of the portal was conducted with the participation of concerned citizens in an open way to promote open data.”…

  • Paper: Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks, a paper that was presented at Museums and the Web 2012, is now available online. The paper was written by Katerina Tzompanaki, Martin Doerr Institute of Computer Science, F.O.R.T.H. Crete–Greece. The abstract states, “The upcoming large-scale metadata repositories, semantic networks of Resource Description Framework triples integrating large amounts of cultural–historical data, are not easily accessible to global query paradigms, such as ‘query by example’ or keyword search. ISO21127 (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model) is an…
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Industry News - semanticweb.com

  • Open Data Processing Done Right

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Andrea Di Maio of Gartner recently articulated concerns about open data processing, particularly the divide between data professionals who have the skills to do so and those who do not. Di Maio writes, “Over the last four years open government and open data have been at the forefront of the debate on how governments can become more transparent, participative and efficient. The theory is well known: rather than (or alongside) providing the government’s interpretation or packaging of public data, this data should be made available in raw, open format for people to build their own views…

  • Spanish DBpedia Launched

    Angela Guess
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A new article reports, “After months of gratuitous hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French… DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia…

  • The Semantic Link on Financial Services with Guest, Lee Feigenbaum – May, 2012

    Eric Franzon
    15 May 2012 | 2:30 pm
    On Friday, May 11, a group of Semantic Technology thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about Semantics in the Financial Services Industry, and “the Linkers” were joined by special guest, Lee Feigenbaum, VP Marketing & Technology at Cambridge Semantics. Lee shared insights gained over many years working in the semantic technology field and with numerous customers in the financial…

  • Brazil Launches Open Data Portal

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation reports, “Last Friday (May 4), the Ministry of Planning in Brazil launched the final version of the Brazilian Open Data Portal. In line with the federal government policy to promote the use of free software in public administration, the portal was made using only free and open source tools. Among them is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open-source data portal software CKAN. Moreover, the whole process of development of the portal was conducted with the participation of concerned citizens in an open way to promote open data.”…

  • Paper: Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

    Angela Guess
    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks, a paper that was presented at Museums and the Web 2012, is now available online. The paper was written by Katerina Tzompanaki, Martin Doerr Institute of Computer Science, F.O.R.T.H. Crete–Greece. The abstract states, “The upcoming large-scale metadata repositories, semantic networks of Resource Description Framework triples integrating large amounts of cultural–historical data, are not easily accessible to global query paradigms, such as ‘query by example’ or keyword search. ISO21127 (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model) is an…
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    AI3:::Adaptive Information

  • Pragmatic Approaches to the Semantic Web

    Mike Bergman
    30 Apr 2012 | 3:46 am
    Linked Data is Sometimes a Useful Technique, but is an Inadequate Focus While in Australia on other business, I had the great fortune to be invited by Adam Bell of the Australian War Memorial to be the featured speaker at the Canberra Semantic Web Meetup on April 23. The talk was held within the impressive BAE Systems Theatre of the Memorial and was very well attended. My talk was preceded by an excellent introduction to the semantic Web by David Ratcliffe and Armin Haller of CSIRO.  They have kindly provided their useful slides online. Many of the attendees came from the perspective of…

  • The Trouble with Memes

    Mike Bergman
    4 Apr 2012 | 12:50 pm
    Adaptive Information is a Hammer, but Genes are Not a Nail Since Richard Dawkins first put forward the idea of the “meme” in his book The Selfish Gene some 35 years ago [1], the premise has struck in my craw. I, like Dawkins, was trained as an evolutionary biologist. I understand the idea of the gene and its essential role as a vehicle for organic evolution. And, all of us clearly understand that “ideas” themselves have a certain competitive and adaptive nature. Some go viral; some run like wildfire and take prominence; and some go nowhere or fall on deaf ears. Culture…

  • Tortured Terminology and Problematic Prescriptions

    Mike Bergman
    27 Mar 2012 | 6:45 pm
    Casting My Vote on Revising httpRange-14 The httpRange-14 issue and its predecessor “identity crisis” debate have been active for more than a decade on the Web [1]. It has been around so long that most acknowledge “fatigue” and it has acquired that rarified status as a permathread. Many want to throw up their hands when they hear of it again and some feel — because of its duration and lack of resolution — that there never will be closure on the question. Yet everyone continues to argue and then everyone wonders why actual consumption of linked data remains…

  • TechWiki Gets 400th Document

    Mike Bergman
    14 Mar 2012 | 7:05 pm
    Phenomenal Growth in Less than Two Years Today, for the first time, we passed 400 articles published on the open semantic framework (OSF) TechWiki. The TechWiki content is a baseline “starter kit” of documentation related to these OSF  projects and their contexts: conStruct – connecting modules to enable structWSF and sComponents to be hosted/embedded in Drupal structWSF – platform-independent suite of more than 20 RESTful Web services, organized for managing structured data datasets Semantic Components – JavaScript or Flex semantic components (widgets) for…
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    UMBC ebiquity

  • Google on Rich Snippets

    Tim Finin
    19 Apr 2012 | 12:22 am
    TweetGoogle’s Webmasters blog has a post on rich snippets and structured data. While this is from Google, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has a very similar approach. Snippets are “the few lines of text that appear under every search result” that are designed to “give users a sense for what’s on the page and why it’s relevant to their query.” The post points out that the search engine needs to understand the content on a page in order to produce the snippets. “The snippet for a restaurant might show the average review and price range; the snippet…

  • Wikidata will create an editable, Semantic Web compatible version of Wikipedia

    Tim Finin
    30 Mar 2012 | 11:36 am
    TweetWikidata is a new project that “aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.” The project was started by the German chapter of Wikimedia, the organization that oversees Wikipedia and related projects, and is he first new Wikimedia project since 2006. Wikidata has its roots in the successful Semantic MediaWiki project, and the Wikidata development team is lead by Dr. Denny Vrandecic, a well known member of the Semantic Web research community and one of the Semantic MediaWiki creators in 2005. The project is…

  • Google semantic web search

    Tim Finin
    15 Mar 2012 | 6:31 am
    TweetThe Wall Street Journal’s Amir Efrati has an article (Google Gives Search a Refresh) and blog post (What Google’s Search Changes Might Mean for You) on upcoming changes Google to its search engine to exploit semantic data. “Google is undergoing a major, long-term overhaul of its search-engine, using what’s called semantic Web search to enhance the current system in the coming years. The move, starting over the next few months, will impact the way people can use the search engine as well as how the search engine examines sites across the Web before ranking them in search…

  • LinkData service helps produce RDF linked data from tables

    Tim Finin
    7 Mar 2012 | 8:59 am
    Tweet Link Data is a nicely done Web site to help people produce RDF data from simple excel spreadsheets. It appears to be the work of researchers at the RIKEN BASE group at the RIKEN Yokohama Institute in Japan. The approach is straightforward and consists of three steps: creating a template, downloading it as an excel spreadsheet and adding your data, and uploading the result to the site for conversion and publishing. In the first step, you use the site to create a template for your table, each row of which will be mapped to RDF data about a single subject. The first column of a row must…

  • LOV Secrets of the Real Ontologies of the LOD Cloud

    Tim Finin
    4 Mar 2012 | 3:14 pm
    Tweet The Linked Open Vocabularies site collects metadata and statistics about the RDFS and OWL vocbularies used in the Linked Open Data cloud. It looks like an interesting and useful resource. “Welcome to LOV, your entry point to the growing ecosystem of linked open vocabularies (RDFS or OWL ontologies) used in the Linked Data Cloud. Here you will find vocabularies listed and individually described by metadata, classified by vocabulary spaces, interlinked using the dedicated vocabulary VOAF. You will enjoy querying the LOV dataset either at vocabulary level or at element level,…
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Dave Beckett - Journalblog

  • Undugg

    Dave Beckett
    10 May 2012 | 10:20 am
    Digg just announced that Digg Engineering Team Joins SocialCode and The Washington Post reported SocialCode hires 15 employees from Digg.com This acquihire does NOT include me. I will be changing jobs shortly but have nothing further to announce at this time. I wish my former Digg colleagues the best of luck in their new roles. I had a great time at Digg and learned a lot about working in a small company, social news, analytics, public APIs and the technology stack there.

  • Releases = Tweets

    Dave Beckett
    15 Aug 2011 | 2:25 pm
    I got tired of posting release announcements to my blog so I just emailed the announcements to the redland-dev list, tweeted a link to it from @dajobe and announced it on Freshmeat which a lot of places still pick up.. Here are the tweets for the 13 releases I didn’t blog since the start of 2011: 3 Jan: Released Raptor RDF syntax library 2.0.0 at http://librdf.org/raptor/ only 10 years in the making :) 12 Jan: Released Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.22: Raptor 2 only, ABI/API break, 16 new SPARQL Query 1.1 builtins and more http://bit.ly/fzb9xW #rdf 27 Jan: Rasqal 0.9.23 RDF query library…

  • Rasqal 0.9.21 and SPARQL 1.1 Query aggregation

    Dave Beckett
    5 Dec 2010 | 7:24 pm
    Rasqal 0.9.21 was just released on Saturday 2010-12-04 (announcement) containing the following new features: Updated to handle aggregate expression execution as defined by the SPARQL 1.1 Query W3C working draft of 14 October 2010 Executes grouping of results: GROUP BY Executes aggregate expressions: AVG, COUNT, GROUP_CONCAT, MAX, MIN, SAMPLE, SUM Executes filtering of aggregate expressions: HAVING Parses new syntax: BINDINGS, isNUMERIC(), MINUS, sub SELECT and SERVICE. The syntax format for parsing data graphs at URIs can be explictly declared. The roqet utility can execute queries over…

  • End of life of Raptor V1. End of support for Raptor V1 in Rasqal and librdf

    Dave Beckett
    7 Nov 2010 | 4:49 pm
    Raptor V1 was last released in January 2010 and Raptor V2 seems pretty stable and working. I am therefore announcing that from early 2011, Raptor V2 will replace Raptor V1 and be a requirement for Rasqal and librdf. End of life timeline Now Raptor V1 last release remains 1.4.21 of 2010-01-30 Raptor V2 release 2.0.0 will happen “soon”. The next Rasqal release will support Raptor V1 and Raptor V2. The next librdf release will support Raptor V1 and Raptor V2 (and requires Rasqal built with the same Raptor version). 2011 The next Rasqal release will support Raptor V2 only. The next…

  • Writing an RDF query engine. Twice

    Dave Beckett
    24 Oct 2010 | 5:00 pm
    “You’ll end up writing a database” said Dan Brickley prophetically in early 2000. He was of course, correct. What started as an RDF/XML parser and a BerkeleyDB-based triple store and API, ended up as a much more complex system that I named Redland with the librdf API. It does indeed have persistence, transactions (when using a relational database) and querying. However, RDF query is not quite the same thing as SQL since the data model is schemaless and graph centric so when RDQL and later SPARQL came along, Redland gained a query engine component in 2003 named Rasqal: the…
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Boolean Black Belt-Sourcing/Recruiting

  • Why Boolean Search is Such a Big Deal in Recruiting

    Glen Cathey
    14 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    In the past, I’ve explained the Boolean Black Belt concept and exposed what I feel is the real “secret” behind learning how to master the art and science of leveraging information systems for talent identification and acquisition. Now I would like to show you precisely WHY Boolean search is such a big deal in recruiting. There are 2 main factors: Candidate variable control Speed of qualified candidate identification. The goal of this article is to shed significant light on the science behind talent mining, how it can lead to higher productivity levels (more and better…

  • I’ll be at the HCI, LinkedIn, and ATC Talent Conferences

    Glen Cathey
    16 Apr 2012 | 8:00 am
    From late April through May, I will be presenting at 5 talent acquisition events in 3 countries and 4 cities. If you are already scheduled to attend one of these events, please be sure to take a moment to introduce yourself if we haven’t already had the chance to meet in person. If you’re thinking about attending one of these conferences but have yet to commit, this will be a good opportunity for you to learn a little more and perhaps decide to sign up. HCI 2012 Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference Unfortunately, if you haven’t yet signed up for HCI’s 2012…

  • The Current and Future State of Talent Sourcing

    Glen Cathey
    9 Apr 2012 | 8:00 am
    I had the distinct honor and privilege of serving as the conference chair of the biggest-ever SourceCon, held at the Georgia Aquarium in February. Part of my responsibility in that role involved kicking off the event, and I took the opportunity to touch upon my observations and opinions on the current state of sourcing, as well as what I believe will be the future of sourcing. Even as I was standing on stage I knew I would be writing a post on this topic, because it was apparent that there is much misunderstanding and debate surrounding sourcing, and certainly no shortage of opinion,…

  • I’ve Joined SourceRight Solutions, a Randstad Company

    Glen Cathey
    2 Apr 2012 | 8:00 am
    When it comes to recruiting – it’s all about timing and opportunity, right? I’ve had a great 15 year run in the staffing industry, starting off in 1997 at a small privately held company in Chantilly, VA, and ultimately ending up at Kforce after they acquired that no-longer-small staffing company back in February of 2005. Over the years, I’ve progressed from a top producing recruiter to a VP of recruiting, and I’ve relocated twice with Kforce from Ashburn, VA to Tampa and more recently to Atlanta. As with most people in the recruiting and staffing industry,…

  • Top 15 Common Talent Sourcing Mistakes

    Glen Cathey
    26 Mar 2012 | 8:00 am
    Practically everything I have learned about sourcing and recruiting didn’t come from a mentor or any formal training. Instead, I learned how to become a top performing recruiter “the hard way.” What that really means is that when it came to finding top talent, I tried a lot of things that didn’t work, and because I refuse to make excuses, give up, or accept anything less than the best results, I kept experimenting until I discovered things that enabled me to find people that others can’t and don’t. With over fifteen years of experience in sourcing and…
Log in