SemTech2009
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Today, at the Semantic Technology Conference , Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced together that the Times will soon be publishing its copious index as Linked Data . The Times ' data will join content from Project Gutenberg , a vast online library of text from public domain books, data from the U.S. census, and information from many other formative and vital entities in the semantic web space. Larson and his team intend to make available hundreds of thousands of tags for content dating back to 1851.
New York Times announce
Le New York Times prend la température en intégrant son thesaurus dans le LinkedData. by Jul 26
For nearly 100 years, we have maintained a thesaurus to tag The New York Times. The thesaurus consists of more than a million terms organized into five controlled vocabularies: subjects, personal names, organizations, geographic locations and the titles of creative works (books, movies, plays, etc). At last week’s Semantic Technology Conference , we announced our intention to publish The New York Times thesaurus under a license that will allow the community to both use it and contribute back to it. The results will, in time, prepare The Times to enter the linked data cloud . Evan Sandhaus New York Times and the Linked Data Cloud Releasing the Times thesaurus is consistent with our TimesOpen strategy.
NYT to Release Thesaurus
Microsoft (Powerset)
A group of semantic technology enthusiasts descended on San Jose for the Semantic Technology Conference last week, and the Powerset division at Bing was there to show off Bing and take part in the semantic technology discussion. There was a crew of people from team Powerset in attendance: Scott Prevost (general manager), Mark Johnson (senior program manager), Ron Kaplan (chief scientist), Stuart Robinson (research engineer), Savas Parastatidis (Microsoft research) and Katie Conry (product/marketing). Dr.
Microsoft Bing was there through the Powerset team by Jul 26
Wolfram|Alpha
At the recent SemTech conference in San Jose, I sat down with Wolfram|Alpha 's Russell Foltz-Smith. Wolfram|Alpha bills itself as a "computational knowledge engine," a nerdy and unfortunately not very intuitive description. Because it's hard to grok, most people have categorized Wolfram|Alpha as a new type of search engine. The site got a lot of press when it launched in May , as many pundits saw it as a challenger to Google. However in our own extensive tests of the product before launch, we concluded that it isn't a "Google Killer" and that it has more in common with Wikipedia.What the hell are they doing there ? by Jul 26
Back in May, I mentioned that the Semantic Web Gang podcast for June would be coming – live – from the stage of this year’s Semantic Technology Conference . Well, we did it, and it was a lot of fun. And as I mention during the session, being able to see the panel made my job as moderator far easier than it usually is on the telephone.
Semantic Web Gang
Ivan’s impressions
The first and possibly most important aspect of SemTech 2009 is that… it happened! I must admit that back in April-May, when the conference’s Web Site did not include any news of the program yet, I was a bit concerned that the general economic malaise would kill this year’s conference. O.k., I might have been paranoiac, but I think some level of concern was indeed legitimate.# C'est l'année du LinkedData! # Google est maintenant présent. # Gouvernements (US & UK) s'interèssent à l'ouverture des données. # Présentation de nouvelles technologies (POWDER, OWL 2, SKOS) # Les anciennes étant encore plus matures (SPARQL, RDFa) by Jul 26
SemTech 2009, along with W3C's significant participation in it, is now behind us. Besides catching upon on emails, I have spent the past week reflecting on the enthusiasm, presentations, and flurry of activities that constituted this year's event in San Jose, 14 to 18 June. One strong feeling I had while in San Jose, was a sense of /deja vu/ in the Web world. Stepping back, I realize that 2009 feels a lot like 1999 when I was consulting with Allaire (remember CFML and ColdFusion?)
Reflections on SemTech 2009 - W3C Q&A Weblog
"number of Semantic Web communities flourishing in cities coast to coast across North America and in Europe" by Jul 26
"I realize that 2009 feels a lot like 1999 when I was consulting with Allaire" by Jul 26
This presentation was used at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose on June 18, 2009 by Keith Sutton, Silicon Valley Flex User Group (SilvaFUG) Manager