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sup eri ori ty for ent erp ris e s oft war e, w e m ust fir st sta rt wit h bui ldi ng a bus ine ss cas e tha t spe aks tow ard s th e re al buy ing pre ssu res in the market: Low Risk, Tactical Fit, and Vendor Relations. Only then can we explain why Semantic W eb is a superior technical choice for ma ny hard data problems. Let’s be very direct: the Semantic Web technology seems like a riskier alternative to conventional data-centric technologies like RDBMS, basic XML, and programming based software approaches using UML and Java. For starters, the Semantic Web technology stack currently faces: Minimal large-vendor support for development tools Expensive hard-to-find skill sets to hire Few proven reference implementations in the public domain A very real paradigm shift in modeling, design, and declarative programming But if we make a very small change of mindset, and shift the risk horizon to five years from now — the status quo technologies begin to look like the more risky option.
Where the semantic web stumbled, linked data will succeed - O'Reilly Radar
In the same way that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman, Facebook's OpenGraph Protocol is neither open nor a protocol. It is, however, an extremely straightforward and applicable standard for document metadata. From a strictly semantic viewpoint, OpenGraph is considered hardly worthy of comment: it is a frankenstandard, a mishmash of microformats and loosely-typed entities, lobbed casually into the semantic web world with hardly a backward glance.Best Buy may be considered by many as a poster child for why businesses should use Semantic Web technologies. An early adopter of the GoodRelations vocabulary ( just recommended for product and price information usage in web pages by Google), the retailer has been at the forefront of the Semantic Web wave – but it’s only just begun. Semantic Web technologies, says Jay Myers, lead web development engineer at Best Buy, are a portal to better insight, in more ways than one (thoughts he’ll be sharing in more detail with attendees at this week’s Semantic Web Summit in Boston).
The Semantic Web Delivers For Best Buy. So Why Not For Your Business, Too? - semanticweb.com
iGlue, Which Wants To Wikify The Web, Launches Its Semantic Content Organizer
Steve O’Hear is probably best known as a technology journalist, most recently at TechCrunch. He still occasionally blogs at last100. Until February 2012, he was CEO of expertise platform Beepl where he helped the company navigate its first VC round, along with seeing the product through development, private alpha and a high-profile public launch. Last100 was co-founded with Richard MacManus... → Learn More iGlue , which wants to “wikify the web“, has officially launched its semantic content organizer and search application. Three years in the making before being unveiled at TechCrunch Europe’s GeeknRolla event in London last April, iGlue creates an additional information layer over web pages by using natural language technology to understand its content.
Internetome , the U.K.'s first full day conference dedicated to the Internet of Things was held on Nov 10 in London. In front of a full attendance, with representatives from academia, government, and enterprise, a wide range of speakers illustrated the promise and the challenges of the complex systems based on smart sensor networks. The Economist magazine featured in its current issue a special report on Smart Systems, underlining how rich, and important these ICT solutions have become, and how they will in the future sustain value added services for a wide set of vertical application areas. Guest author David Orban is the Chairman of Humanity+ , an organization dedicated to promoting understanding, interest, and participation in fields of emerging innovation.
"The Internet of Things is Already Here" - Dispatches From Internetome
Source: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/08/17/the-greasy-fix-it-web-of-intent-vis... Yes, it seems there is yet another buzzword to grasp and perpetrate as the next "thing," webwise: "web of intent." But, this one seems set to take off, unlike the seemingly eternal wait for so-called "semantic web" technologies to flourish - heck, emerge would suffice at this stage! According to Nova Spivack , from this post : A Web of Intent is a participatory web: a web where we’re active consumers of content. Webs of Intent are an extension of the remix culture that has emerged.
Web of Intent | mavergames.org
Introduction - Introduction to ontologies and semantic web - tutorial
This site introduces ontologies and semantic web, with the emphasis on how ontologies are defined and used for semantic web applications today (more about this site background is here ). This tutorial is extracted from the introductory chapter of the dissertation that deals with the applications of ontologies in multi-agent systems - Marek Obitko (advisor Vladimir Marik): Translations between Ontologies in Multi-Agent Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 2007 . Enough for introduction, you can choose the Next buttons to continue reading or select any topic of interest from the menu on the left. Warning: If you have older browser, you may not see some of the symbols (for example in the description logics section) properly - in this case either update your web browser or get the pdf version of this text.
Comprendre le web sémantique
Le Web sémantique, ou « langage naturel » est le Saint Graal sur lequel planchent les chercheurs depuis quelques années. Pour un de ses théoriciens, Tim Berners-Lee, l’idée est de parvenir à un Web intelligent, où les informations ne seraient plus stockées mais comprises par les ordinateurs, pour apporter à l’utilisateur ce qu’il cherche vraiment. Le Web sémantique permettra donc de rendre le contenu sémantique du Web interprétable non seulement par l’homme, mais aussi par la machine.For public relations and marketing professionals, semantic Web technology opens new doors for getting your message out there, and to the right people. Writer Katie Bunker asked Rachel Lovinger , content strategy lead for Razorfish and speaker at mediabistro.com’s upcoming Semantic Web Summit , to explain how semantic Web helps “findability” for brands: “There are two main ways that semantic technology can contribute to findability. Some brands, depending on the type of content they create, can publish their content with markup that identifies key pieces of information on the page, for example a price or an address.
Razorfish’s Rachel Lovinger on Using Semantic Web to Boost Brand ‘Findability’ - PRNewser
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Yogi Berra once said, “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.” With regard to new technologies, the same continues to hold true: The technologies themselves might be new, but they are fundamentally addressing old problems. Many of today’s emerging technologies such as cloud computing, SaaS, MDM, and social networks are really attempts to... [read more]
RDF is defined as an abstract data model, plus a collection of practical notations for exchanging RDF descriptions (eg. RDF/XML, RDFa, Turtle/N3). In theory, your data modelling activities are conducted in splendid isolation from the sleazy details of each syntax. RDF vocabularies define classes of thing, and various types of property/relationship that link those things. And then instance data uses arbitrary combinations of those vocabularies to make claims about stuff. Nothing in your vocabulary design says anything about XML or text formats or HTML or other syntactic details.
Easier in RDFa: multiple types and the influence of syntax on semantics
How Best Buy is Using The Semantic Web
Yesterday we wrote about the increasing usage of Semantic Web technologies by large commercial companies like Facebook, Google and Best Buy. The Semantic Web is a Web of added meaning, which ultimately enables smarter and more personalized web apps to be built. In this post we explore how a leading U.S. retailer, Best Buy , is using a Semantic Web markup language called RDFa to add semantics to its webpages. This is not just an academic exercise for Best Buy.Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now
In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured, machine readable data. Available as a part of the Talking with Talis semantic web podcast series, the interview ( listen here ) is summarized on interviewer Paul Miller's new ZDNet blog dedicated to the semantic web. A full transcript is available here .During an interesting session called the ‘Great Global Graph’ at the CETIS conference this week I formed the opinion that, in the recent rush of enthusiasm for ‘linked data’, three ‘memes’ were being conflated. These next three bullets outline my understanding of how these terms have been used in recent discussions, including the CETIS session: Open data: I see this as something expressed as a philosophy or, in more concrete terms, as a policy, such as that espoused by the UK Government. There are aspects of public ownership in this, but also a philosophical approach based on ‘openness’ and a rejection of the economic idea of value in scarcity of information. I think that specific technology does not come into this really: for example one concrete realisation of this policy in the UK is the Freedom of Information Act under which it is perfectly permissible for a data owner to supply data in any reasonable format and medium.