|
|
|
It is a dmoz.org like directory about recent articles about the Sementic Web - quite complete and picks up a lot of biz oriented articles
New fresh article on WashingtonPost about TimBL his view of the Semantic Web. The article also tries to outline the differences between WebServices and the SW. IBM seems not believing much in it and about the mental leap involved. Bob Suter, IBM's director of Web services clearly says that "The fundamental problem is people are going to be lazy about adding all this extra information to their Web pages".
This reminds me about the Metacrap article about users' laziness to fill up more forms, more fields i.e. make the additional step - I believe instead that the bigger challenge of the SW is to actually write clever bots, crawlers, scraper and web mining tools which will actually infer or derive metadata and relationships automatically, without human intervention. See also previous post about using TrackBack/PingBack techniques to infer links.
interesting... and brings some ideas. see the full article.
..in the technology world, the blog has become the standard news medium: and especially at this conference. Throughout the four days, perhaps 50 of the attendees "blogged" the proceedings. Sometimes live: with blog entries being added in the middle of lectures, using laptops and the hotel's wireless network. With digital cameras allowing pictures to be seen within seconds, chat rooms allowing commentaries to be typed to interested parties worldwide, and a knowledgeable audience keen to disseminate the information, old school newspaper reporters were scooped so hard that most gave up and retired to the bar.
perhaps too enthusiastic....
An intersting article about blogs. in the latimes.com. Let me just borrow few sentencies...
You can go with a well-researched, vetted, authoritative voice. Or you can find 50 voices [on a blog] that are wildly, hugely passionate, often one-sided and frequently wrong, but presenting a wider spectrum of viewpoints. That is frequently a better way of getting at the truth.
This fall, UC Berkeley is offering a class on Web logs for the first time--through its highly regarded Graduate School of Journalism.
for the rest, please read the full article.
Something interesting to cross/integrate with Semantic Stuff?
Shelley started to post chapters of the book for review.
For the TOC and the M$ Word document version of the chapters see the TOC at the bottom left of this page.
It seems big names are moving (again) toward "federated" or distributed databases workingl with different types of data. This time with a solution based on XML. See an interesting page on c|net and the Xperanto announcement of IBM. This seems a pure XML - based approach, no things such as RDF mentioned there.
Problems were and will always be the same there but, XML can simplify data handling and light protocols can simplify query distribution.
I believe this is still "half" of the story. RDF (or something similar) will be needed to describe with an unique language different (up to extremely different) resources available on the network in a real-world application. This seems powerful than usage of XML only.
At least, we are touching the real problem :-)
They are two similar technologies (protocols) to exchange links between blogs or weblogs. Trackback is much more RDF oriented while Pingback XML oriented and of course I like more the former :-)
There is a lot of discussion going on about the argument here and here. A comparinson of the two protocols is available here.
I think such "hyperping-ing" (hyperlinking? :-) technology could help the growth of the Semantic Web e.g. try to imagine that while weblog authors or bloggers exchange links to be displayed on their nice Web sites, at the same time they would be also exchanging metadata for free :-)
This is much in line with Stefano Mazzocchi presentation (you need RealOne player) about "automatically inferring" metadata and links between web resources, like Google, Amazon or CiteSeer are doing.
This is one of the very first and immediate to understand applications of RSS1.0, using the RDF part of it. Matt Biddulph uses RSS1.0 as a syndication format for collections of pictures together with FOAF to express who is on the pictures. He is also using WordNet vocabulary to say more interesting things like what a picture depictes. Then he also built some very nice and immediate search appication to search using WordNet terms, see paths between people or just generate simple XHTML pages telling in general terms what is a picture about. Very very effective application.
See recent email message of Matt to www-rdf-rules RDF query mailing list for a full bunch of links to his blog explaining how the thing has actually been done.
See also recent blogged article about a paper about picdiary stuff at http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000020.html
Joseki is a server for publishing RDF models on the web. Models have URLs and they can be access by query using HTTP GET. It has been build using Jena using the RDF Net API and RDQL - the main developer behind this is Andy Seaborne from HP. Andy is also part of the Jena core team together with Brian McBride, Jarey Caroll and others.
I think is is very cool idea espeacially realted to RDQL and the Web - I also think that some of this stuff could be easily done with mod_dav and Apple technologies, but the interesting bit is the RDF behind it and the API he defined.