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Reasoning Problems?
I’m not going to explicitly comment on the panel discussion at ISWC08, entitled An OWL 2 Far? Let’s simply say it was controversial. I don’t mind controversial panels. In fact,
A (very personal) bit of ISWC08 trendspotting
As ISWC08 is drawing to a close, it dawns to me that something which Frank van Harmelen has been forecasting for years is now happening, seemingless without conscious effort. He
The Day after Freebase went RDF
So what’s been happening on the blogosphere after John Giannandrea’s keynote at ISWC and the revelation that Freebase now produces Linked Data from an RDF service… Tetherless World sums up
The Future, Quantum Encryption, Privacy on the Social Semantic Web
Just two memos: There is a talk tonight with Thomas Länger from the Viennese quantum encryption project (BBC article about the project), co-organized by quintessenz (an organisation devoted to civil
Multimedia in the Web of Data – Annotating and Interlinking Photos, Music, Multimedia [WOD-PD]
The Web of Data Practitioners Days concluded with the session on Multimedia in the Web of Data, the first part of which was led by Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau,
Session 4: Using the Web of Data [WOD-PD]
This morning’s first session was dedicated to Using the Web of Data, or, as Alan Dix put it: “In the end, it’s not about data – it’s about use!” Alan
ISWC is near
Reporting from Karlsruhe. Final preparations are under way for an exciting week full of Semantic Web. Saturday, October 25th: ISWC08 Doctoral Consortium Sunday, October 26th and Monday, October 27th: ISWC08
Bringing (Legacy) Data to the Web [WOD-PD]
The third session at WOD-PD was dedicated to “Bringing (Legacy) Data on the Web“, and led by Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, Germany) and Orri Erling (OpenLink Software) . Sören
Semantic Desktop, Lifting and Human Language Technology [WOD-PD]
The next session at WOD-PD was given by Leo Sauermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, Germany), and Brian Davis (DERI Galway, Ireland). Leo introduced the idea of the
Web of Data Practitioners Days, 1st Session: Tweaking Turtles [WOD-PD]
Good morning from Vienna:) The Web of Data Practitioners Days really kicked off with a bang today – with Michael Hausenblas doing a strip! Only to expose the Semantic Web