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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 …
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.3: Aalborg University
The third partner contributing to the second KIWI work package, Enabling Technologies, is a team from Aalborg University (AAU) led by Peter Dolog, Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Unit at the Dept. of Computer Science. “I found the KIWI p …
Semantic Web and Drupal
Yesterday I was at a meeting of the Drupal Austria Community at the Nelsons/TU Vienna. Drupal is a powerful free open source CMS written in PHP. We talked about the semantic web and how to integrate semantic technology into Drupal as a module. Our spec …
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.2: Brno University of Technology
“My expectations for KIWI are actually very high”, says Pavel Smrz. “From the very begining, even from the project preparation phase, it has been obvious that Kiwi could be an exceptional project.” Pavel is an associate professor at the Dept. of Comput …
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.1: LMU
“My expectations for this project are that we are going to acquire experience in system development, learn more about social software, deepen our knowledge of information extraction and gain more insight into personalisation adaptation.” This unassumin …
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 …
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