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Author: Andreas Blumauer
Metaweb´s Jamie Taylor: "Freebase provides a large and user extensible vocabulary for RDF/RDFa"
Andreas Blumauer from Semantic Web Company (SWC) talked with Jamie Taylor, Minister of Information at Metaweb Technologies Inc. about Freebase & Linked Data and Google´s announcement to use RDFa. SWC:
Interview with David Huynh: “The user interface design must inform the back-end design”
Linked Data is evolving fast. A huge amount of RDF data is available and ready for exciting new applications. Unfortunately, the bottleneck is still the availability of Semantic Web user
Interview with David Huynh: "The user interface design must inform the back-end design"
Linked Data is evolving fast. A huge amount of RDF data is available and ready for exciting new applications. Unfortunately, the bottleneck is still the availability of Semantic Web user
BBC Music relaunch: Linked Data goes Business?
Since SWC is involved in a couple of semantic web projects in the media industry, I was watching for the BBC Music relaunch. Now the new platform is online –
Linked Data is not owl:sameAs Semantic Web
While some people work heavily on the extension of the semantic web infrastructure, like Talis Connected Commons or OpenLink´s Amazon EC2 Instantiation others have started to bring the semantic web
Open now: LOD Triplification Challenge 2009
The yearly organized Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge (as part of this year´s I-Semantics conference, 2 – 4 September 2009, Graz/Austria) awards prizes to the most promising triplifications of existing Web applications, Websites and data sets. The challenge
Google and the Semantic Web: About Quad Stores and URIs
Just recently Google launched another interesting service called “In Quotes”. It delivers quotes from stories linked to from Google News and users can compare opinions of e.g. politicians in a
Why Wolfram Alpha won´t replace Google
If Nova Spivack and Doug Lenat are positive with what they have seen from Wolfram Alpha, I am also close of being convinced that the internet community won´t be dissapointed
Springer´s new semantic search engine
Just recently Springer came up with AuthorMapper, a great new tool to explore the scientific world, see trends on a map and find related articles etc.: AuthorMapper, an online tool
Have you ever read “privacy policy” of your preferred social media?
Today we had an interview date with Markus Mooslechner from ORF (Austrian Broadcasting). The TV-Show “Newton” will discuss next Saturday how social media affects our lives, especially how one can