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Sparkling SPARQL: Scripting the Semantic Web
Just a few weeks after der W3C has published the official SPARQL-recommendation the U.S. technology company TopQuadrant releases a (potentially) disruptive scripting app for Sparql queries. Seeing it in action reminds a little bit of Yahoo’s mashup edi …
The KIWI Vision (with a funny twist)
Confession: No, we did not create the KIWI Vision Video below – but collaborative environments are pretty good at identifying emergent ideas, and this Youtube video does a great job at establishing the kiwi as a character who, using ingenuity and bold …
Kicking off the KiWi
Today I am in Salzburg, finding myself in amidst a discussion of possibly global impact: The Knowledge In a Wiki (KiWi) project is about to kick off! Andreas Blumauer, Matthias Samwald and I are right now meeting up with Josef Holy and Henry Story from …
Travelling to Linked Data Planet
Today I booked my flight and hotel to stay in NYC. I am looking forward to going to the Linked Data Planet Conference. I will meet interesting people, listen to interesting talks (especially to the people from TopQuadrant, Kingsley Idehen and Timbl him …
Sharing Friend of a Friend Data (FOAF) across Social Networks (Blogtalk Presentation)
One of the many interesting presentations (from what I can gather from a distance;-) at this year’s Blogtalk was Uldis Bojars’ “FOAF for Social Network Portability”. FOAF is a “machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their re …
SPARQLmotion: Developing Skills For Everyone
Yesterday TopQuadrant announced the delivery of the first visual scripting language for the semantic web, promising in their press release that “for the first time, end users can integrate data sources, run queries on the combined data, and create info …
Proudly Introducing: A New Strategic Partnership
We have more good news: In January already we teamed up with Know-Center Graz, Austria’s Competence Center for Knowledge Management, to form a strategic partnership. It’s a pleasure to see that our new strategic partner is as pleased about the partners …
Semantic for the Zend Framework with OpenCalais
Semantic Blogging: Prototype of a Rich Text Editor with some semantic content flavour. This example demonstrates how to use the Yahoo! YUI Editor and OpenCalais API as Zend Framework Service to flavour your content with some semantic.
What is Driving User-Generated Content?
Whether you are using Google Earth, NASA World Wind or MS Virtual Earth: I think we have all had our few mesmerized moments when first playing with one of these virtual representations of our beautiful planet Earth. The easter eggs are the best part, o …
Semantic Web: It´s all about “Relationship Discovery”
Since about 5 years or so, I have been constantly explaining to a variety of people with different backgrounds what the semantic web is all about. Sure, it´s about knowledge representation, ontology engineering, OWL, RDF and all that stuff. But, what …