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Timeline JS - Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use. The Evolution of the Web. DBpedia Spotlight. Serendipity Stories - An Online Collection. The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition System. LinkedGeoData Browser Widgets Tests. About. LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative. The LinkedGeoData Knowledge Base In order to employ the Web as a medium for data and information integration, comprehensive datasets and vocabularies are required as they enable the disambiguation and alignment of other data and information.

Many real-life information integration and aggregation tasks are impossible without comprehensive background knowledge related to spatial features of the ways, structures and landscapes surrounding us. LinkedGeoData uses the comprehensive OpenStreetMap spatial data collection to create a large spatial knowledge base. Wiki Contents This Wiki provides information about the LinkedGeoData community project: License The Updates. OpenStreetMap. Linking Open Data Cloud. BBC Programmes - Datasets. Beginners PHP Tutorials. When algorithms control the world. 23 August 2011Last updated at 01:42 By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter Algorithms are spreading their influence around the globe If you were expecting some kind of warning when computers finally get smarter than us, then think again.

There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing us that our human services are now surplus to requirements. In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking control, and they are doing it in a far more subtle way than science fiction would have us believe. Their weapon of choice - the algorithm. Behind every smart web service is some even smarter web code. It is these invisible computations that increasingly control how we interact with our electronic world. At last month's TEDGlobal conference, algorithm expert Kevin Slavin delivered one of the tech show's most "sit up and take notice" speeches where he warned that the "maths that computers use to decide stuff" was infiltrating every aspect of our lives. "We've rendered something illegible. 6a00d8341eb53c53ef0120a5cdb9bb970b-pi 1,024×958 pixels. Spelling mistakes 'cost millions' in lost online sales. An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses.

Charles Duncombe says an analysis of website figures shows a single spelling mistake can cut online sales in half. Mr Duncombe says when recruiting staff he has been "shocked at the poor quality of written English". Sales figures suggest misspellings put off consumers who could have concerns about a website's credibility, he says. The concerns were echoed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), whose head of education and skills warned that too many employers were having to invest in remedial literacy lessons for their staff. Mr Duncombe, who runs travel, mobile phones and clothing websites, says that poor spelling is a serious problem for the online economy.

"Often these cutting-edge companies depend upon old-fashioned skills," says Mr Duncombe. "This is because when you sell or communicate on the internet, 99% of the time it is done by the written word. " Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design. The Amount of Information in the World. According to the latest accounting of how much information capacity there is in the world, the tide of information we have unleashed is rising far faster than anyone expected. The flood of information is now a long-term tsunami. Computing capacity is increasing at 58% annually, telecommunications at 28%, and storage at 23% per year.

The former rate is approximately the rate of Moore’s Law, a doubling every 18 months. Communications are doubling every 34 months and storage every 40 months. Information has been expanding at this rate for the past decade. These latest metrics come from a February 2011 article called The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information (PDF here) by Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez. The full scale of how much information we make is hard to appreciate. Graphic from the Washington Post Something to conjure with: Hilber notes on his webiste that You can watch a short video version of the paper here.