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Triplification Challenge – 3 more weeks to go!
Together with this year’s I-Semantics conference, the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Research Group (AKSW) in Leipzig is organizing a Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge. Submission deadline is in three weeks (30th of June). The ch …
Impressions from ESWC
“Communion must be symmetric”, well-known painter Salvador Dalà once said about Leonardo’s masterpiece “The Last Supper”. I could not help feeling reminded of this phrase when I made this snapshot at the European Semantic Web Conference 2008 in Teneri …
Semantic Tagging with Faviki
In May, a new bookmarking service, Faviki, started which, unlike other bookmarking services, comes to the public semantically enhanced. ReadWriteWeb already had a first look at it and described it as follows: Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool tha …
Chasing and understanding memory, intelligent synapses and the concept of lying (on the web).
It’s hard not to be fascinated by questions like how the brains are working, how memories emerge and whether synapses can be intelligent? On the web, the idea of the wisdom of crowds or massively distributed systems are hardly new. „We“ really se …
Improving OWL
I am sure you are aware that the Web Ontology Language OWL is currently undergoing a revision by the W3C OWL Working Group. The revised version will be known as OWL 2, and is going to feature some enhancements of expressivity, and will also designate t …
And the winner is: The vision of a future where ordinary people publish structured data
The Semantic Web Company is one of the partners of this year’s LinkedData Planet Conference in New York (June 17-18, 2008). As part of this partnership, we launched a competition, asking for your vision of a future with Linked Open Data – and we have a …
M. Veytsel: From Signal to Impact
[This article was written by guest author Mike Veytsel and originally submitted as an entry in our LinkedData Vision Competition] Signal: The Long Tail The central problem of the internet today is the relative lack of organization of the massive store …
A. Shakya: “From hyperlinking to data linking”
[This article was written by guest author Aman Shakya and originally submitted as an entry in our LinkedData Vision Competition] The current gigantic network of web documents could be realized by enabling any user to publish any document and link to ot …
A. Shakya: "From hyperlinking to data linking"
[This article was written by guest author Aman Shakya and originally submitted as an entry in our LinkedData Vision Competition] The current gigantic network of web documents could be realized by enabling any user to publish any document and link to ot …
Update: Data Availability is not Data Portability or: Looking to BEATNIK
Just a quick round-up and update to yesterday’s post about the data hippie bandwagon: TechCrunch wrote a piece in which “data portability” is referred to as “The New Walled Garden” (strictly speaking, I guess the title should have read “data availabili …
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