RDF関連メモ on Planet masaka : 2008-05

Planet masakaから2008年5月のRDF／セマンティック・ウェブ関連メモを抽出してまとめたものです。

2008-05-31

Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality [ReadWriteWeb]
the most striking revelation about the semantic search space is UI ... presenting a search box is both misleading and detrimental, as people associate it with the simplistic questions that Google solves without any problems - by Alex Iskold, 2008-05-30 (at 19:06)
2008年のセマンティックウェブ - 清澄日記
Wikipediaとの関係をi2k君が考察。「英語版の記事をタイトルだけでいいから日本語版に移すプロジェクト」はいいかもね (original post at 16:38)

Making the Web Searchable: The Story of SearchMonkey [ReadWriteWeb]
SearchMonkey motivates publishers to use semantic annotations, and is based on existing semantic standards and industry standard vocab, provides tools for developers to create compelling applications that enhance search results - by Alex Iskold, 2008-05-2 (at 22:51)

Context, Tagging, Semantic Web, and Linked Data
some pointers to recent discussions, by By Kingsley Idehen, 2008-05-23 (at 21:47)

OWL2 Primer [OWL WG Wiki]
an editors' draft of "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer", with annotated review comments, in Wiki form (at 16:48)
Lessons for Ontology Writers [Nodalities]
"a tableau reasoner will take all the URIs in a graph and combine them all to create all possible triples and then start eliminating them using the OWL constraints" - by iand for Tim Swanson's session, 2008-05-20 (at 10:55)

@vant, indeed, container model should probably be dropped from RDF intro. It's still there just because RSS 1.0 relys on it... (original post at 23:42)
will give a talk on June 15th, at "Happy Web Weekend" conference. The theme would be around semantic microblogging and geo information (original post at 11:34)

SMOB - Semantic MicroBlogging
SMOB is a distributed / decentralised microblogging system built on RDF and Semantic Web technologies, mainly SIOC and FOAF. (at 21:46)

URI Identity Management for Semantic Web Data Integration and Linkage
propose a 'Consistent Reference Service' for URI identity management and describe how this is being used in the infrastructure of a scalable Semantic Web system - by Jaffri, A., Glaser, H. and Millard, I., 2007-11-30 (link to PDF) (at 09:25)

ConceptNet
ConceptNet aims to give computers access to common-sense knowledge, the kind of information that people know but usually leave unstated. ConceptNet represents this data in the form of a semantic network (at 16:41)

Snoggle -- A Graphical, SWRL-based Ontology Mapper
Snoggle is a graphical, SWRL-based ontology mapper to assist in the task of OWL ontology alignment. It allows users to visualize ontologies and then draw mappings from one to another on a graphical canvas (at 20:50)
Creating Semantic mashups: Bridging Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web [Web 2.0 Expo 2008]
how the architecture of participation can be extended by combining open data and open source semantic technologies; an ecology of open data whereby data is reused and processed results are republish for the consumption by other systems. link to PDF (at 11:14)

Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF [XTech 2008]
By using common formats like FOAF and SIOC to describe people, content objects, and the connections between them, social media sites can interoperate and provide portable data by appealing to some common semantics - by CaptSolo, terrace. link to PDF paper (at 22:04)

Schema Cache
A seachable repository of RDF/OWL vocabularies. has SPARQL interface. still testing stage ? - by Talis (at 12:08)