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Open Your Data! Tear Down Those Data Silos!
I have just uploaded a whole batch of Emergency Exit: Semantic Web logos to Flickr and made them available under a Creative Commons licence, hoping that people are going to use them to spread the gospel of the Semantic Web: We have a dream – tear down …
Culture is interactivity
Why don’t we think of coalition negotiations in a new dress: Maybe these are the topics we should rather discuss in our governments – all throughout Europe… The Brazilian government has expressed its support of free culture, free software, creati …
Linking Open Data: Triplification Challenge at I-Semantics 2008
The challenge at this year´s I-Semantics is not only going to award a MacBook Air and other nice prizes (sponsored by OpenLink Software and punkt. netServices; a 3rd sponsor is still needed) but is also going to help to overcome the chicken-and-egg di …
Like a Jigsaw Puzzle: The Similarities between Man and Semantic Machines
An interview with Herbert Hrachovec, conducted by SWC’s own Marion Fugléwicz-Bren, drew my attention to an article by Hrachovec in which he explored what he calls the “irreconcilable similarities” between man and semantic machines: Treating certain sy …
Topic Maps and the Semantic Turn in IT
The 2nd International Topic Maps Users Conference in Norway is coming up in April – a good occasion to review the potential of Topic Maps to further the Semantic Turn in Information Technology. SWC’s Tassilo Pellegrini interviewed Graham Moore from Net …
Yes, SWC is a KiWi Project Partner, too
Someone wondered why I was blogging so intensely about the KiWi Project Kick-off: Not only because it is an intriguing project but also, yes indeed, because the Semantic Web Company itself is part of the KiWi Project, and my blogging was not simply the …
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.6: Salzburg Research
Please forgive me that the key player is now getting the last mention in my little ‘KIWI Project Partners’ series: Salzburg Research has actually the biggest share of responsibility within KIWI, as they are home to the Project Office consisting of Seba …
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.5: Logica
Logica (formerly known as WM-Data) is the second KIWI-business partner, participating in the project management use case. Logica and their knowledge and project management activities were introcued by Søren Rieck, one of their consulting architects wh …
Yahoo! embraces the Semantic Web
What has been in the shade for several months now steps brightly into the sun: Yahoo! is heavily turning towards the Semantic Web. The underlying open-search-strategy is based on putting a stronger focus on microformats and related metadata like Dublin …
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.4: Sun
As soon as KIWI enters the use cases stage, collaboration with business partners is going to gain particular importance. One of these partners is Sun Microsystems – who hardly need an introduction. Yet an interesting new fact that I learned about Sun o …