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  • 2012: The Year of the Semantic Web

    Semantic Web News
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:36 am
    In the Huffington Post, Steve Hamby, the Chief Technology Officer of Orbis Technologies, Inc.

  • Workshop Report: W3C Linked Enterprise Data Workshop

    Semantic Web Activity News
    Ivan Herman
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:28 am
    W3C today published the final report of the Linked Enterprise Data Workshop, hosted by W3C on the 6-7 December in Cambridge, MA, USA. This workshop provided a way for the community to meet and discuss some of the challenges when deploying application relying on the principles of Linked Data. The presentations covered many different topics, ranging from the benefits a set of additional conventions would bring to specific technical issues such as the challenges of dealing with the reality that URLs do change sometimes, as well as the need for a more robust security model, and specific gaps in…

  • Cambridge Semantics Announces 30 Percent Increase in Staff and New Boston Office - PR Web (press release)

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    27 Jan 2012 | 5:06 am
    Cambridge Semantics Announces 30 Percent Increase in Staff and New Boston OfficePR Web (press release)Based on the revolutionary flexibility of Semantic Web technologies, Anzo provides unprecedented ease-of-use, speed of implementation, and operational business process integration for just about any formal or informal business activity.and more »

  • Defining Meaning on the Semantic Web - semanticweb.com

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    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Mike Bergman recently asked the deceptively simple question, what do things mean on the semantic web?

  • Search plus Your World - fool's gold

    Semantic Web News
    28 Jan 2012 | 6:43 am
    For quite a while I've held the view that most current approaches to Web search are fundamentally flawed, because the best way to find something is not to lose it in the first place .
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  • Workshop Report: W3C Linked Enterprise Data Workshop

    Ivan Herman
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:28 am
    W3C today published the final report of the Linked Enterprise Data Workshop, hosted by W3C on the 6-7 December in Cambridge, MA, USA. This workshop provided a way for the community to meet and discuss some of the challenges when deploying application relying on the principles of Linked Data. The presentations covered many different topics, ranging from the benefits a set of additional conventions would bring to specific technical issues such as the challenges of dealing with the reality that URLs do change sometimes, as well as the need for a more robust security model, and specific gaps in…

  • Drafts Published by the W3C HTML Data Task Force: HTML Data Guide and Microdata to RDF transform

    Ivan Herman
    12 Jan 2012 | 10:03 am
    The HTML Data Task Force of the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group has published two documents today: The HTML Data Guide aims to help publishers and consumers of HTML data. With several syntaxes (microformats, microdata, RDFa) and vocabularies (schema.org, Dublin Core, microformat vocabularies, etc.) to choose from, it provides guidance on deciding what to choose in a way that meets the publisher’s or consumer’s needs. The Microdata to RDF describes processing rules that may be used to extract RDF from an HTML document containing microdata. Both documents are Working Drafts, with…

  • Feedback Welcome: An Overview of the Provenance (PROV) family of specs

    Paul Groth
    11 Jan 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Knowing how, where, when and why content was produced is an important part of making a trustworthy web. However, it is often difficult to interchange this provenance information between systems. For example, it’s often difficult to locate or find provenance information for a web page. Even if the provenance information is located, it is often only available as text or if it is available in a structured way it does not use a common terminology — making it difficult to create software that can leverage this information. The Provenance Working Group was charted to help address these…

  • Provenance Access and Query and Provenance Primer Documents published

    Ivan Herman
    10 Jan 2012 | 9:59 am
    The W3C Provenance Working Group has published two new documents: The “Provenance Access and Query” document specifies how to use standard Web protocols, including HTTP, to obtain information about the provenance of Web resources. The “Provenance Primer” provides an intuitive introduction and guide to the PROV data model for provenance Both documents are First Public Working Drafts; feedbacks and comments are welcome! Please, use the public-prov-comments@w3.org mailing list to provide your comments.

  • Publication of the SPARQL 1.1 2nd Last Call Working Drafts

    Ivan Herman
    6 Jan 2012 | 6:51 am
    The W3C SPARQL Working Group has published the (second) Last Call Working Drafts of the following SPARQL 1.1 documents: SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF graphs. SPARQL 1.1 Service Description defines a vocabulary and discovery mechanism for describing the capabilities of a SPARQL endpoint. SPARQL 1.1 Query Language adds support for aggregates, subqueries, projected expressions, and negation to the SPARQL query language. SPARQL 1.1 Protocol describes a means for conveying SPARQL queries and updates to a SPARQL processing service and returning the results via HTTP to the…
 
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  • Cambridge Semantics Announces 30 Percent Increase in Staff and New Boston Office - PR Web (press release)

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:06 am
    Cambridge Semantics Announces 30 Percent Increase in Staff and New Boston OfficePR Web (press release)Based on the revolutionary flexibility of Semantic Web technologies, Anzo provides unprecedented ease-of-use, speed of implementation, and operational business process integration for just about any formal or informal business activity.and more »

  • OutWit Hub 2.1 – A Web Harvesting Power Tool for All - Business Wire (press release)

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    OutWit Hub 2.1 – A Web Harvesting Power Tool for AllBusiness Wire (press release)PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OutWit Technologies, publisher of innovative software based on its original data collection technology, announces the release of the first cross-platform Web harvester allowing the general public to easily collect information and more »

  • Making applicable music connections - Irish Times

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:40 pm
    Making applicable music connectionsIrish TimesThe product is aimed at consumers, music services providers (such as Eircom Music) and resellers, and has been given the thumbs up by the influential Semantic Web community. “Most of the technological advantage of our product resides in the way we

  • OutWit Hub 2.1 -- A Web Harvesting Power Tool for All - MarketWatch (press release)

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:02 am
    OutWit Hub 2.1 -- A Web Harvesting Power Tool for AllMarketWatch (press release)PARIS, Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- OutWit Technologies, publisher of innovative software based on its original data collection technology, announces the release of the first cross-platform Web harvester allowing the general public to easily collect and more »

  • CloudCamp London: the Big Data Special - SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:27 am
    SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)CloudCamp London: the Big Data SpecialSYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)He's actually talking about Linked Data, a topic I've dug into before here and over on semanticweb.com – Linked Data could be/ might be the effective realisation of the decade-old Semantic Web dream. Big Data means masses of unstructured or and more »
 
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  • Search plus Your World - fool's gold

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:43 am
    For quite a while I've held the view that most current approaches to Web search are fundamentally flawed, because the best way to find something is not to lose it in the first place .

  • 2012: The Year of the Semantic Web

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:36 am
    In the Huffington Post, Steve Hamby, the Chief Technology Officer of Orbis Technologies, Inc.

  • Steve Hamby: 2012: The Year of the Semantic Web

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:55 pm
    In 1996, Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium , defined modern Semantic Web technology with this vision: If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of people's thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then ... (more)

  • Nice reading on Semantic Search

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:16 am
    Filed under: Semantic Web , Work Related - Ivan Herman @ 18:53 Tags: Linked Data , OWL , semantic search , Semantic Web , Web search engine I had a great time reading a paper on Semantic Search [1] . Although the paper is on the details of a specific Semantic Web search engine , I was reading it as somebody not really familiar with all the ... (more)

  • The RDF-3X engine for scalable management of RDF data

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:26 am
    RDF is a data model for schema-free structured information that is gaining momentum in the context of Semantic-Web data, life sciences, and also Web 2.0 platforms.
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  • Defining Meaning on the Semantic Web

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Mike Bergman recently asked the deceptively simple question, what do things mean on the semantic web? He explains, “The crowning achievement of the semantic Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for the data. These innovations provide the basis for distributed data at global scale, all accessible via Web devices such as browsers and smartphones that are now a ubiquitous part of our daily…

  • Semantic Web Jobs: CACI

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    CACI is looking for a PeopleSoft Database Administrator in Fairfax, VA. This position is described thus: “Lead and Support Data Conversion and integration Team. Support RDF Schema development. Map legacy data to ERP data. Create ETL code with PeopleTools.” Qualifications for the position include: “Typically requires bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and 10 to 12 years of related experience. Five years Oracle DBA experience. Three years PeopleSoft HRMS applications experience. Oracle 10g database support. Experience in STAT objects migration.” continued… New Career…

  • Breaking News: Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing at SemTechBiz Berlin

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:50 am
    A late addition has been made to the agenda for the Semantic Technology and Business Conference (#SemTechBiz) in Berlin, Germany. The conference, which takes place February 6-7 in Berlin, Germany, will now feature a session entitled Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project. Space is still available to see this and many other highly anticipated sessions, panels, and demonstrations at SemTechBiz Berlin. Featured Session Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project with Denny Vrandecic, Project Director - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project,…

  • Open Data Fellowship: OKF’s Panton Fellowship

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    The Open Knowledge Foundation is currently accepting submissions for the Panton Fellowship. According to the fellowship website, “The Panton Fellowships, funded by Open Society Foundations and coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, will be awarded to scientists who actively promote open data in science. We believe that ‘open data means better science’. Panton Fellows will explore and support this concept. They will endorse the Panton Principles for making scientific data open, and will promote the value of open data in all areas of science.” continued… New Career…

  • The Year of the Semantic Web?

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:41 am
    Steve Hamby proclaims that 2012 is the year of the Semantic Web. He starts by quoting Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the semantic web back in 1996: “If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of people’s thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then machine analysis could become a very powerful management tool, seeing patterns in our work and facilitating our working together through the typical problems which beset the management of large organizations.”…
 
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  • Defining Meaning on the Semantic Web

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Mike Bergman recently asked the deceptively simple question, what do things mean on the semantic web? He explains, “The crowning achievement of the semantic Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for the data. These innovations provide the basis for distributed data at global scale, all accessible via Web devices such as browsers and smartphones that are now a ubiquitous part of our daily…

  • Semantic Web Jobs: CACI

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    CACI is looking for a PeopleSoft Database Administrator in Fairfax, VA. This position is described thus: “Lead and Support Data Conversion and integration Team. Support RDF Schema development. Map legacy data to ERP data. Create ETL code with PeopleTools.” Qualifications for the position include: “Typically requires bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and 10 to 12 years of related experience. Five years Oracle DBA experience. Three years PeopleSoft HRMS applications experience. Oracle 10g database support. Experience in STAT objects migration.” continued… New Career…

  • Breaking News: Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing at SemTechBiz Berlin

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:50 am
    A late addition has been made to the agenda for the Semantic Technology and Business Conference (#SemTechBiz) in Berlin, Germany. The conference, which takes place February 6-7 in Berlin, Germany, will now feature a session entitled Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project. Space is still available to see this and many other highly anticipated sessions, panels, and demonstrations at SemTechBiz Berlin. Featured Session Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project with Denny Vrandecic, Project Director - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project,…

  • Open Data Fellowship: OKF’s Panton Fellowship

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    The Open Knowledge Foundation is currently accepting submissions for the Panton Fellowship. According to the fellowship website, “The Panton Fellowships, funded by Open Society Foundations and coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, will be awarded to scientists who actively promote open data in science. We believe that ‘open data means better science’. Panton Fellows will explore and support this concept. They will endorse the Panton Principles for making scientific data open, and will promote the value of open data in all areas of science.” continued… New Career…

  • The Year of the Semantic Web?

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:41 am
    Steve Hamby proclaims that 2012 is the year of the Semantic Web. He starts by quoting Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the semantic web back in 1996: “If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of people’s thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then machine analysis could become a very powerful management tool, seeing patterns in our work and facilitating our working together through the typical problems which beset the management of large organizations.”…
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  • Defining Meaning on the Semantic Web

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Mike Bergman recently asked the deceptively simple question, what do things mean on the semantic web? He explains, “The crowning achievement of the semantic Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for the data. These innovations provide the basis for distributed data at global scale, all accessible via Web devices such as browsers and smartphones that are now a ubiquitous part of our daily…

  • Breaking News: Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing at SemTechBiz Berlin

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:50 am
    A late addition has been made to the agenda for the Semantic Technology and Business Conference (#SemTechBiz) in Berlin, Germany. The conference, which takes place February 6-7 in Berlin, Germany, will now feature a session entitled Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project. Space is still available to see this and many other highly anticipated sessions, panels, and demonstrations at SemTechBiz Berlin. Featured Session Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project with Denny Vrandecic, Project Director - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project,…

  • Open Data Fellowship: OKF’s Panton Fellowship

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    The Open Knowledge Foundation is currently accepting submissions for the Panton Fellowship. According to the fellowship website, “The Panton Fellowships, funded by Open Society Foundations and coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, will be awarded to scientists who actively promote open data in science. We believe that ‘open data means better science’. Panton Fellows will explore and support this concept. They will endorse the Panton Principles for making scientific data open, and will promote the value of open data in all areas of science.” continued… New Career…

  • The Year of the Semantic Web?

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:41 am
    Steve Hamby proclaims that 2012 is the year of the Semantic Web. He starts by quoting Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the semantic web back in 1996: “If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of people’s thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then machine analysis could become a very powerful management tool, seeing patterns in our work and facilitating our working together through the typical problems which beset the management of large organizations.”…

  • A Positive Take on Google’s New Privacy Policy

    Angela Guess
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Christopher Dawson has commented on Google’s recent changes to their privacy policy. Dawson writes, “I live, eat, breathe, work, and play Google and there aren’t many people more aware of Google’s business model and the amount of data it collects than I. So is it just sheer stupidity and naiveté that has me utterly embracing the Google ecosystem and relatively unconcerned about newly announced privacy policies that have caused so much consternation this week? Before you jump down to the talkbacks to tell me how stupid I really am, read on for another couple paragraphs.”…
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  • Defining Meaning on the Semantic Web

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Mike Bergman recently asked the deceptively simple question, what do things mean on the semantic web? He explains, “The crowning achievement of the semantic Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for the data. These innovations provide the basis for distributed data at global scale, all accessible via Web devices such as browsers and smartphones that are now a ubiquitous part of our daily…

  • Breaking News: Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing at SemTechBiz Berlin

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:50 am
    A late addition has been made to the agenda for the Semantic Technology and Business Conference (#SemTechBiz) in Berlin, Germany. The conference, which takes place February 6-7 in Berlin, Germany, will now feature a session entitled Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project. Space is still available to see this and many other highly anticipated sessions, panels, and demonstrations at SemTechBiz Berlin. Featured Session Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project with Denny Vrandecic, Project Director - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project,…

  • Open Data Fellowship: OKF’s Panton Fellowship

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    The Open Knowledge Foundation is currently accepting submissions for the Panton Fellowship. According to the fellowship website, “The Panton Fellowships, funded by Open Society Foundations and coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, will be awarded to scientists who actively promote open data in science. We believe that ‘open data means better science’. Panton Fellows will explore and support this concept. They will endorse the Panton Principles for making scientific data open, and will promote the value of open data in all areas of science.” continued… New Career…

  • The Year of the Semantic Web?

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:41 am
    Steve Hamby proclaims that 2012 is the year of the Semantic Web. He starts by quoting Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the semantic web back in 1996: “If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of people’s thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then machine analysis could become a very powerful management tool, seeing patterns in our work and facilitating our working together through the typical problems which beset the management of large organizations.”…

  • A Positive Take on Google’s New Privacy Policy

    Angela Guess
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Christopher Dawson has commented on Google’s recent changes to their privacy policy. Dawson writes, “I live, eat, breathe, work, and play Google and there aren’t many people more aware of Google’s business model and the amount of data it collects than I. So is it just sheer stupidity and naiveté that has me utterly embracing the Google ecosystem and relatively unconcerned about newly announced privacy policies that have caused so much consternation this week? Before you jump down to the talkbacks to tell me how stupid I really am, read on for another couple paragraphs.”…
 
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    Industry News - semanticweb.com

  • Defining Meaning on the Semantic Web

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Mike Bergman recently asked the deceptively simple question, what do things mean on the semantic web? He explains, “The crowning achievement of the semantic Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for the data. These innovations provide the basis for distributed data at global scale, all accessible via Web devices such as browsers and smartphones that are now a ubiquitous part of our daily…

  • Breaking News: Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing at SemTechBiz Berlin

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:50 am
    A late addition has been made to the agenda for the Semantic Technology and Business Conference (#SemTechBiz) in Berlin, Germany. The conference, which takes place February 6-7 in Berlin, Germany, will now feature a session entitled Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project. Space is still available to see this and many other highly anticipated sessions, panels, and demonstrations at SemTechBiz Berlin. Featured Session Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: The Wikidata Project with Denny Vrandecic, Project Director - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project,…

  • Open Data Fellowship: OKF’s Panton Fellowship

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    The Open Knowledge Foundation is currently accepting submissions for the Panton Fellowship. According to the fellowship website, “The Panton Fellowships, funded by Open Society Foundations and coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, will be awarded to scientists who actively promote open data in science. We believe that ‘open data means better science’. Panton Fellows will explore and support this concept. They will endorse the Panton Principles for making scientific data open, and will promote the value of open data in all areas of science.” continued… New Career…

  • The Year of the Semantic Web?

    Angela Guess
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:41 am
    Steve Hamby proclaims that 2012 is the year of the Semantic Web. He starts by quoting Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the semantic web back in 1996: “If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of people’s thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then machine analysis could become a very powerful management tool, seeing patterns in our work and facilitating our working together through the typical problems which beset the management of large organizations.”…

  • A Positive Take on Google’s New Privacy Policy

    Angela Guess
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Christopher Dawson has commented on Google’s recent changes to their privacy policy. Dawson writes, “I live, eat, breathe, work, and play Google and there aren’t many people more aware of Google’s business model and the amount of data it collects than I. So is it just sheer stupidity and naiveté that has me utterly embracing the Google ecosystem and relatively unconcerned about newly announced privacy policies that have caused so much consternation this week? Before you jump down to the talkbacks to tell me how stupid I really am, read on for another couple paragraphs.”…
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  • Give Me a Sign: What Do Things Mean on the Semantic Web?

    Mike Bergman
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:52 am
    Coca-Cola, Toucans and Charles Sanders Peirce The crowning achievement of the semantc Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for the data. These innovations provide the basis for distributed data at global scale, all accessible via Web devices such as browsers and smartphones that are now a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. Yet, despite these profound and simple innovations, the semantic Web’s…

  • The State of Tooling for Semantic Technologies

    Mike Bergman
    12 Dec 2011 | 8:29 am
    Number of Semantic Web Tools Passes 1000 for First Time; Many Other Changes We have been maintaining Sweet Tools, AI3‘s listing of semantic Web and -related tools, for a bit over five years now. Though we had switched to a structWSF-based framework that allows us to update it on a more regular, incremental schedule [1], like all databases, the listing needs to be reviewed and cleaned up on a periodic basis. We have just completed the most recent cleaning and update. We are also now committing to do so on an annual basis. Thus, this is the inaugural ‘State of Tooling for Semantic…

  • An Ontologies Architecture for Ontology-driven Apps

    Mike Bergman
    5 Dec 2011 | 12:01 pm
    Ontology Modularization and Roles within an OSF Instance For some time now, Structured Dynamics (SD) has been touting the unique advantages of ODapps, or ontology-driven applications [1]. ODapps are modular, generic software applications designed to operate in accordance with the specifications contained in one or more ontologies. The relationships and structure of the information driving these applications are based on the standard functions and roles of ontologies (namely as domain ontologies), as supplemented by UI and instruction sets and validations and rules. When these supplements are…

  • UMBEL Services, Part 4: structOntology

    Mike Bergman
    15 Nov 2011 | 1:33 pm
    Improved Ontology Navigation and Management in Read-only and Editable Forms This continues our series on the new UMBEL portal. UMBEL, the Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer, is an upper ontology of about 28,000 reference concepts and a vocabulary designed for domain ontologies and ontology mapping [1]. This part four discusses structOntology, the online ontology viewing and management tool that is an integral part of the open semantic framework (OSF), the framework that hosts the UMBEL portal. Ontologies are the central governing structure or “brains” of a semantic…
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  • jQuery Cookie Pluging Extended With HTML5 localStorage And Chunked Cookies

    Frederick Giasson
    5 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Is there a web developer that never used cookies to save some information in a user’s browser? There may be, but they should be legion. As you probably know, the problem with cookies is that their implementation in browsers is random: some will limit the size of the cookie to 4096 bytes, others will limit the number of cookies from a specific domain to 50, others will have no perceivable limits, etc. In any case, if one of these limits is reached, the cookie is simply not created the browser. This is fine, because web developer expects cookies to fail from time to time, and the system…

  • Open Semantic Framework Running on Micro Instances

    Frederick Giasson
    28 Dec 2011 | 2:45 pm
    After releasing the new Open Semantic Framework Installer, we started to test it on machines with all kind of different specifications: different CPU limits, different amount of memory, etc. One of the setup that caught our attention was Amazon’s EC2 Micro Instance. The Micro Instance is a virtual server type that has been introduced by Amazon a little bit more than a year ago. As described by Amazon, Micro Instances are: Instances of this family provide a small amount of consistent CPU resources and allow you to burst CPU capacity when additional cycles are available. They are well…

  • Volkswagen UK’s Search Engine Powered by structWSF

    Frederick Giasson
    21 Dec 2011 | 12:23 pm
    It is now official, Volkswagen UK‘s search engine is now powered by structWSF. Their new contextual search engine has been released last Friday. I covered the underlying architecture in one of my recent blog post: Volkswagen's RDF Data Management Workflow.     John Streit, head of technology at Tribal DDB, described the two key advantages of using the structWSF (part of the Open Semantic Framework (OSF)) for their website in an interview with Wired UK: The first is that it gives you a single place to access data. Streit explains: “Applications often need to retrieve data…

  • The Open Semantic Framework Installer

    Frederick Giasson
    13 Dec 2011 | 6:10 pm
    We are excited to introduce the first Open Semantic Framework installation script. This new installer application will install and configure the entire Open Semantic Framework stack for you. It will take about 10 minutes of your time, and will process in the background for a few hours while everything necessary to build the OSF stack is downloaded and compiled. The only thing you have to do to run the OSF Installer is to issue the few commands outlined below, and then to answer a few questions in the process (which, since most of them use the standard default values, is pretty easy). The OSF…

  • Role and Use of Ontologies in the Open Semantic Framework

    Frederick Giasson
    5 Dec 2011 | 12:02 pm
    Ontologies are to the Open Semantic Framework what humans were to the Mechanical Turk. The hidden human in the Mechanical Turk was orchestrating all and every chess move. However, to the observers, the automated chess machine was looking just like it: a new kind of intelligent machine. We were in 1770. Ontologies plays exactly the same role for the Open Semantic Framework (OSF): they orchestrate all and every moves for all the pieces within OSF. They are what instructs structWSF, the Semantic Components, conStruct, and all other derivate pieces of user interfaces how to behave. In this…
 
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  • What is Your Talent Sourcing ROI?

    Glen Cathey
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Anything worth doing is worth measuring, and sourcing isn’t exempt from this. If you want to know which method of sourcing has the highest ROI in terms of enabling a person to find more of the right people more quickly, then you’re in luck – because that’s what this post is about. Human capital data comes in many forms – resumes, social network profiles, blogs, bios, press resleases, etc. – and I have found that a key and critical aspect of sources of human capital data that many people fail to formally recognize is the depth and completeness of the data…

  • The Guide to Semantic Search for Sourcing and Recruiting

    Glen Cathey
    16 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    If you have nearly any tenure in HR, sourcing or recruiting, you’ve probably heard something about “semantic search” and perhaps you would like to learn more. Well – you’ve found the right article. As a follow-up to my recent Slideshare on AI sourcing and matching, I am going to provide an overview of semantic search, the claims that semantic search vendors often make, explain how semantic search applications actually work, and expose some practical limitations of semantic search  recruiting solutions. Additionally, I will classify the 5 basic levels of semantic…

  • Talent Sourcing: Man vs. AI/Black Box Semantic Search

    Glen Cathey
    9 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Back in March 2010, I had the distinct honor of delivering the keynote presentation at SourceCon on the topic of resume search and match solutions claiming to use artificial intelligence in comparison with people using their natural intelligence for talent discovery and identification. Now that nearly 2 years has passed, and given that in that time I’ve had even more hands-on experience with a number of the top AI/semantic search applications available (I won’t be naming names, sorry), I decided it was time to revisit the topic which I am very passionate about. If you’ve…

  • Looking Back, Forward, and For Your Input

    Glen Cathey
    2 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    As a reader of Boolean Black Belt, I’d looking for your feedback and input on a few things. For example: What would you like to see me write more about? Would you like to write a post on Boolean Black Belt? What do you think of me changing my site to something other than “Boolean Black Belt?” However, before I go any further down that rabbit hole, I’d like to thank you, give you some insight as to why I blog, and let you know about what you can expect from me in 2012. First & Foremost – Thank You As 2011 has come to an end, I find myself reflecting on the…

  • Why So Many People Stink at Searching

    Glen Cathey
    19 Dec 2011 | 8:00 am
    The trouble with search today is that people put too much trust in search engines – online, resume, social, or otherwise. I can certainly understand and appreciate why people and companies would want to try and create search engines and solutions that “do the work for you,” but unfortunately the “work” being referenced here is thinking. I read an article by Clive Thompson in Wired magazine the other day titled, “Why Johnny Can’t Search,” and the author opens up with the common assumption that young people tend to be tech-savvy. Interestingly,…
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