Do we need the Semantic Web?

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Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme 05/08/2004 06:20 AM
Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme by Steve Cayzer
http://snipurl.com/66yj

Steve is a research engineer at Hewlett-Packard's (HP) laboratories in Bristol, England. He is interested in the intersection of semantic web technologies and machine learning techniques, such as automated classification and metadata enrichment. He also has a semantic blog. This paper is about semantic blogging, an application of the semantic web to blogging. The semantic web promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics. Blogging is a lightweight web publishing paradigm which provides a very low barrier to entry, useful syndication and aggregation behaviour, a simple to understand structure and decentralized construction of a rich information network. Semantic blogging builds upon the success and clear network value of blogging by adding additional semantic structure to items shared over the blog channels. In this way we add significant value allowing view, navigation and query along semantic rather than simply chronological or serendipitous connections. Our vision is to use semantic web tools and ideas to help move blogging beyond communal diary browsing to rich information sharing scenarios. We have built a simple prototype as an illustration of this vision. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web 12/28/2004 06:58 AM
Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool For the Semantic Web
http://kmi.open .ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html

Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user's behalf. Often, the existing technologies rely on one very specific ontology... To alleviate some of these issues, they started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing. Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given. The current set of concepts can be influenced by a selection of a particular ontology of concepts and relations. In addition to identifying the concepts-of-interest that are relevant from the perspective of a particular ontology, each such concept may provide an applicable set of relations or commands that can be executed. Such relationships are both, determined and evaluated dynamically by querying the ontology server. Another feature they believe improves the user's experience is the ability to turn the semantic menus ON or OFF, to highlight all instances belonging to a particular ontological class, to follow and semantically process the links embedded in the document. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Semantic Web gets nod from W3C

Semantic Web gets nod from W3C 02/10/2004 07:43 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 10 2004 10:53AM GMT

Are we semantic yet?

Are we semantic yet? 11/10/2003 11:15 PM
I'm about to agree with BurningBird (which I'm always happy to do since she's right so damn often) but in a way that neither of us is going to find very satisfying. IMO, she's right to point out that something important has already begun: My idea of semantic web is if I can look for a poem that uses a metaphor of bird as freedom, and get back poems that have bird as metaphor for freedom. But you know, I don't have to go everywhere in the web to look for this — if I could just do this at...

Semantic Indexing

Semantic Indexing 09/17/2004 08:43 AM
Semantic Indexing
http://www.nitle.org/s emantic_search.php

Semantic indexing is their name for a family of techniques for searching and organizing large data collections. The goal of semantic indexing is to find patterns in unstructured data (documents without descriptors such as keywords or special tags) and use those patterns to offer more effective search and categorization services. Semantic indexing techniques are language-agnostic, so data collections don't have to be in English, or even in any human language at all. For example, they have had good preliminary results in protein structure prediction using algorithms adapted from a text search engine. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI or LSA, for latent semantic analysis) was originally described in a 1990 paper by Deerwester, Dumais, Furnas, Landauer, and Harshman, and is a topic of active study. You can find links to journal articles and other LSI websites on our refer ences page. This has been added to the semantics web section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Semantic integration

Semantic integration 12/02/2003 01:18 AM
Philip Merrick, chairman and CEO of webMethods, uses one of my favorite phrases in an InfoWorld interview published ...

Semantic autos

Semantic autos 09/18/2004 07:01 PM
I was talking with Mark Dionne a couple of days ago about my failed attempt to create a hand gesture that apologizes to drivers for unwarranted honks of annoyance. Today Mark passed along a link to "a car that can wag its tail" that the Car Talk guys mentioned. Little does Mark know that I was on the verge of publishing my own breakthrough idea about this. A few days ago, I nearly hit a car that was making a left into the street because its turn signal simply was not visible from my direction. See the example below. So,...

Meaningless but semantic

Meaningless but semantic 09/14/2004 09:13 AM
At a session at foo camp, I went through the tentative chapter outlines of the book I'm plotting. My aim was to ruthlessly use the attendees, getting them to tell me where I'm going wrong and what I should be writing about. And it worked: They poked at the ideas and pointed me in many helpful directions. Thanks, y'all! And it just keeps going: I've been getting incredibly generous email with yet more information and ideas. For example, one came today from Angela Hey chockablock with examples. She writes about some initiatives that have struggled over how human-readable metadata should...

Google and the Semantic Web

Google and the Semantic Web 02/15/2004 03:53 PM
Some fascinating comments coming out of the update Brandy threads : "The goal of a good search engine should be both to understand what a document is really about, and to understand (from a very short query) what a user really wants. And then match those things as well as possible."

The Semantic Grid

The Semantic Grid 04/28/2004 05:53 AM
The Semantic Grid
http://www.semanticgrid.org/
e-Science offers a promising vision of how computer and communication technology can support and enhance the scientific process. It does this by enabling scientists to generate, analyse, share and discuss their insights, experiments and results in a more effective manner. The underlying computer infrastructure that provides these facilities is commonly referred to as the Grid. At this time, there are a number of grid applications being developed and there is a whole raft of computer technologies that provide fragments of the necessary functionality. However there is currently a major gap between these endeavours and the vision of e-Science in which there is a high degree of easy-to-use and seamless automation and in which there are flexible collaborations and computations on a global scale. Our vision of the infrastructure that is needed to support the full richness of the e-Science vision draws on research and development in both the Grid and the Semantic Web, and adopts a service-oriented approach. We call it the Semantic Grid. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog.

The Birth of the Semantic Web

The Birth of the Semantic Web 12/17/2004 06:37 PM

Semantic Web definition

Semantic Web definition 11/11/2003 12:54 PM
The Devil's Dictionary (2.0): Semantic Web An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy...

The Semantic Web -- Live!

The Semantic Web -- Live! 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

Our very own Mike Linksvayer and Matt Haughey are on a panel at SXSW discussing metadata, the semantic web, and the one-of-a-kind Creative Commons search engine at this very moment. If you're at the Austin Convention Center, get over here to Room 15.

Other uses of semantic schemas

Other uses of semantic schemas 09/07/2002 07:49 AM
Thinking more about the semantic schemas I wrote about last night, I realized that it has more uses. XLink for example has the same problems as RDF. For XLinks to work, you have to add XLink specific syntax to your document. This is far from ideal, which became painfully clear when the first XHTML 2.0 draft was released without XLink support. A semantic schema for XHTML 2.0 can declare that the href attributes generate XLinks. Another example. A month ago, when I tried to add support for XHTML 2.0 to the various browsers, I found out that there's no way to tell the browser what the title of the document is. A semantic schema can declare what the title of a document is. Google needs to know what the title of an xml document is too.

In 75 Words or Less, What is the
Semantic Web?

In 75 Words or Less, What is the
Semantic Web? 11/21/2002 05:00 AM

Semantic obsolescence

Semantic obsolescence 01/14/2003 12:26 PM
Find me another site that is as semantically rich (other than Joe Clark, who is years ahead of me). Hell, find me another site that even uses XHTML 1.1. (All right, a few blogs use it, but even the W3C home page only uses XHTML 1.0.) I bought into every argument the W3C made that keeping up with their standards, validating with their tools, and using their semantic markup would somehow "future-proof" my site and provide some mystical "forward compatibility". How about some fucking payoff now? How about some fucking compatibility?

Standards are bullshit. XHTML is a crock. The W3C is irrelevant. -- Mark Pilgrim

"tri" I never understand why people need to be on the cutting edge. Don't they know that edges are sharp? For example, I've already had 2 ADOdb problems reported to me that were actually PHP 4.3.0 bugs. And don't get me talking about Apache 2.0...

"zeldman.alfred"

Commercializing the Semantic Web

Commercializing the Semantic Web 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
In the first of his reports from the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, Kendall Clark discusses the path forward for successfully selling and developing Semantic Web technology into industry.

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Kendall Grant Clark: A Web of Rules "if the Semantic Web is to happen, it will be because of a...

"Bray on the Semantic Web."

"Bray on the Semantic Web." 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

Tagging and the Semantic Web

Tagging and the Semantic Web 04/11/2005 05:19 PM
Tagging Tagging, i.e. on-the-fly user generated keyword categorization looks like it is becoming the standard way to categorize weblog content,...

The Semantic Web and SGML

The Semantic Web and SGML 11/10/2003 11:15 PM
Frank thinks that Clay's fogged the issues around the Semantic Web. Frank points to places where the careful construction of industry metadata has resulted in integrated systems that work well. I don't think Clay is arguing that all metadata is bad. Rather, he's saying that it doesn't scale. Yes, the insurance industry might be able to construct a taxonomy that works for it, but the Semantic Web goes beyond the local. It talks about how local taxonomies can automagically knit themselves together. The problem with the Semantic Web is, from my point of view, that it can't scale because taxonomies...

The Semantic Earth

The Semantic Earth 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
I spent all of December and half of January working on an article for Esther Dyson's Release 1.0. Man, did I learn a lot, including that Esther and Christina Koukkos are uniquely demanding yet patient editors. The article's just come out. Here's the abstract: The Semantic Earth Every business in the world is headquartered on earth. Every employee works somewhere. Every customer is at some location at every moment. Every product is delivered to some spot and every service is performed at some coordinates. Every transaction involves at least one place and usually more than one. And yet, until recently,...

W3C completes framework for the Semantic
Web

W3C completes framework for the Semantic
Web 04/24/2004 07:56 PM
The Register Apr 25 2004 0:22AM GMT

Preparing for Semantic Web Services

Preparing for Semantic Web Services 05/02/2004 02:51 AM
WebmasterBase May 2 2004 7:15AM GMT

W3C completes the framework for the
Semantic Web

W3C completes the framework for the
Semantic Web 04/23/2004 05:35 AM
IT-Analysis.com Apr 23 2004 9:23AM GMT

RSS 2.0: Grouchy programmer 1, semantic
Web 0

RSS 2.0: Grouchy programmer 1, semantic
Web 0 06/05/2005 11:21 PM
The "grouchy programmer" Adam Bosworth gave props to during his brief Q&A at the end of his keynote was, of course, Dave Winer. Bosworth was disparaging RSS 1.0 and RDF, created by a vast community of developers, for their complexity,...

Semantic Behavior Index

Semantic Behavior Index 06/20/2004 11:16 AM
Jon Udell speculates on what our OS would do if Google wrote it instead of Microsoft: On the Google PC, you wouldn’t need third-party add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant messages. It would just happen. The voracious spider wouldn’t stop there, though. The next piece of low-hanging fruit would be the Web pages you visit. These too would be stored, indexed, and made searchable. More ambitiously, the spider would record all your screen activity along with the underlying event streams. ... Interesting idea! And couldn't we implement enough of this to test its usefulness pretty...

Semantic Web specs for XML people

Semantic Web specs for XML people 07/16/2004 01:31 AM
man, this should have existed years ago

Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic
Web

Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic
Web 07/21/2004 06:12 PM
2004-07-20: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals. In Semantic Web languages like RDF and OWL, a property links two individuals or an individual and a value. This draft presents patterns and considerations for representing relations between more than two individuals. Comments are welcome. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

How Google Will Have Achieved The
Semantic Web

How Google Will Have Achieved The
Semantic Web 08/01/2004 04:38 PM

MindRaider - Semantic Web Outliner

MindRaider - Semantic Web Outliner 04/14/2005 07:05 AM

MindRaider - Semantic Web Outliner

MindRaider - Semantic Web Outliner
http://mindraider.sourceforg e.net/

MindRaider is Semantic Web outliner. It aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. MindRaider mission is to organize not only the content of your hard drive but also your cognitive base and social relationships in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation and inferencing. There are basically two pieces of the Semantic Web which user agent should accomplish - annotating content with metadata, and doing stuff with that metadata. You have to start with your resources - files, links, thoughts, friends, etc. These resources are in turn represented as Concepts that are organized to Notebooks. On top of the Concepts within a Notebook is built (RDF based) metadata layer that enables MindRaider to provide various Notebook facets (flat/hierarchical/graph-oriented but also semantic based views). Notebooks are further organized to Folders allowing you to build custom thematical domains. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

SemText - Semantic HyperText

SemText - Semantic HyperText 04/21/2004 06:04 AM
SemText - Semantic Hypertext - Making Latent Semantics Blatant
http://semtext.org/

Human languages allow you to express meaning in text for other humans to read. Semantic Web technologies let you express the meaning of data in a computer-readable form. SemText is a community-oriented project that aims to help bridge the gap. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research Resources section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Semantic Web Interest Group

Semantic Web Interest Group 03/06/2004 01:48 AM
Reporting from the first W3C Semantic Web Interest Group meeting in Cannes, France, Kendall Clark describes the wealth of activity in the semantic web world.

W3C Wraps Up Semantic Web Standards

W3C Wraps Up Semantic Web Standards 02/10/2004 01:32 PM
After years in research and development, the standards consortium issues two crucial standards from the Semantic Web movement, which allows for more intuitive computing.

Realizing the Potential of the Semantic
Web

Realizing the Potential of the Semantic
Web 12/18/2003 01:06 PM
Realizing the Potential of the Semantic Web
http://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/features/tbliview.htm

World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee says the Semantic Web is "a key to realizing the potential of the Web… The library community has historically seen the Semantic Web as primarily about metadata. While that is important, it is only one aspect of the larger picture. There is financial data, chemical data, biotechnology data, experimental data, geographic data and more. All of these domains have their own vocabularies, with few explicit points of connection. The Semantic Web is aimed at bridging those gaps, and allowing links across fields… To the extent that data can be encoded in common syntaxes like RDF [Resource Description Framework] and described with public vocabularies, they can be more accessible and more useful... Perhaps nowhere in the academic environment is this more important than the area of scholarly communication." But Berners-Lee warns that there are several impediments to be overcome before the benefits of the Semantic Web can be realized: "We currently lack an ethos for reliable Web publication. We need a closer connection between the technology and the institutional commitments necessary to maintain persistent identifiers and namespaces. We need a realignment of legal constraints and recognition of fair use within the context of the new digital infrastructure. We need to avoid as far as possible the constraints of patents or monopoly at any of the layers of the infrastructure. We also need to sustain the open connectivity -- the linking among people, organizations, data and ideas -- that drive the growth and diversity of the Web."

Clay Cements the Semantic

Clay Cements the Semantic 11/10/2003 11:16 PM
Clay takes apart the Semantic Web, starting small and heading towards the big and beautiful. He ends by pointing out that metadata is politics and that there is a virtue to messiness. It's a brilliant piece and I'd be much happier about it if the ending points weren't ones I've been trying to write about for a few months. Damn that Shirky!...

The semantic web begins at home

The semantic web begins at home 01/07/2004 02:57 PM
The site for the First European Semantic Web Symposium is one of the least semantic websites ever produced.

"The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and
Worldview"

"The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and
Worldview" 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

Semantic Web Extreme Goodness

Semantic Web Extreme Goodness 12/07/2003 09:24 AM

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Do we need the Semantic Web?