Talis: Evangelizing and Quietly Enabling the Semantic Web - Read. This is a guest post by by Zach Beauvais. Talis is a bit different than most web 2.0 startups we hear about. It is a 40 year-old technology company with a significant presence in the UK - nearly a quarter of British academic and public libraries make use of its software. Although the Web is a prominent feature of the organization, their primary focus is on data management. Talis was recently featured as part of ReadWriteWeb's 10 semantic apps to watch out for, and its tech evangelist Dr Paul Miller was interviewed by us. In this post we will review Talis' technology and how it fits into the current era of the Web.
Following web 2.0 trends, Talis has made an open technology platform that encourages collaboration and the use of large stores of Semantic data. But, there is something different about the Talis ethos. The Talis Platform Did I mention platform? The upshot of the platform in combination with the Talis Community License is that semantic mashups can be created. Talis Applications. A Productive Application of Semantic Search - ReadWriteWeb. Noesis is a new semantic web search engine that helps scientists studying the environment access and retrieve the research data they need. Developed at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the new engine has the potential to enable scientists and researchers everywhere to perform more productive and focused searches thanks to the semantic technology Noesis uses.
About Noesis The Noesis search engine (PDF) is different than regular search engines because it employs the use of semantics to help its users better shape their search queries. The results of this lead to better, more accurate, and more complete sets of search results. The goal of the Noesis project is to provide scientists working in the field of Atmospheric Science a way to better search through the "hidden web" of scientific catalogs that traditional search engines cannot reach. The Semantic Web: Better in Niches? However, in smaller communities, the semantic web can easily become a reality. Image credit: rule100. Words and chords. The semantic shifts of the Beatles' chord. 11 Things To Know About Semantic Web - ReadWriteWeb. 1. You don’t need to apologize for calling it Web 3.0. Of course the Web does not upgrade in one go like a company switching to Vista.
But there is a definite phase transition from current technologies. My personal Web 3.0 definition is the combination of Web 2.0 mass collaboration with structured databases. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Funding the Semantic Web: Dapper's Ad Network Plan - ReadWr. The founders of the data extraction and API creation service Dapper announced this week that their aim is to leverage Dapper in the service of ad networks and derive a semantic index of pages around the web from that activity. They will launch their ad powering product at Ad:Tech in April. Essentially, it will perform ad funded indexing of the semantic web. Here's how it will work: Dapper lets users identify and tag particular fields on any page. It then extracts the value in that field and makes it available in XML. As a result of this advertising activity, Dapper believes a substantial quantity of pages around the web could have fields of interest delineated and tagged with relevant terms.
Relationships between pages and fields and terms and tags can all be extracted and analyzed from this aggregated activity. Dapper currently has 35,000 extraction functions (Dapps) created, but they are betting that a clear profit motive will incentivize advertisers to create many, many more.