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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 AMMagpie - 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
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Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme
Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme
05/08/2004 06:20 AMSemantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme by Steve
Cayzerhttp://snipurl.com/66yjSteve 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.
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Do we need the Semantic Web?
Do we need the Semantic Web?
03/14/2005 06:25 PMZDNet Mar 12 2005 4:29AM GMT
Semantic Web gets nod from W3C
Semantic Web gets nod from W3C
02/10/2004 07:43 AMZDNet UK Feb 10 2004 10:53AM GMT
Are we semantic yet?
Are we semantic yet?
11/10/2003 11:15 PMI'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...
The Birth of the Semantic Web
The Birth of the Semantic Web
12/17/2004 06:37 PMTagging and the Semantic Web
Tagging and the Semantic Web
04/11/2005 05:19 PMTagging Tagging, i.e. on-the-fly user generated keyword categorization
looks like it is becoming the standard way to categorize weblog
content,...
"Bray on the Semantic Web."
"Bray on the Semantic Web."
11/10/2003 11:14 PMSemantic autos
Semantic autos
09/18/2004 07:01 PMI 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,...
The Semantic Web and SGML
The Semantic Web and SGML
11/10/2003 11:15 PMFrank 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...
Meaningless but semantic
Meaningless but semantic
09/14/2004 09:13 AMAt 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...
Semantic Web definition
Semantic Web definition
11/11/2003 12:54 PMThe Devil's Dictionary (2.0): Semantic Web An attempt to apply the
Dewey Decimal system to an orgy...
Semantic obsolescence
Semantic obsolescence
01/14/2003 12:26 PMFind 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"
Semantic integration
Semantic integration
12/02/2003 01:18 AMPhilip Merrick, chairman and CEO of webMethods, uses one of my
favorite phrases in an InfoWorld interview published ...
Other uses of semantic schemas
Other uses of semantic schemas
09/07/2002 07:49 AMThinking 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.
How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen
How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen
10/28/2003 11:08 PMKendall Grant Clark: A Web of Rules "if the Semantic Web is to happen,
it will be because of a...
The Semantic Web -- Live!
The Semantic Web -- Live!
03/14/2005 06:06 PMOur 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.
The Semantic Grid
The Semantic Grid
04/28/2004 05:53 AMThe Semantic Gridhttp://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
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Google and the Semantic Web
Google and the Semantic Web
02/15/2004 03:53 PMSome 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."
Semantic Indexing
Semantic Indexing
09/17/2004 08:43 AMSemantic Indexinghttp://www.nitle.org/s
emantic_search.phpSemantic 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
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Commercializing the Semantic Web
Commercializing the Semantic Web
10/28/2003 11:06 PMIn 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.
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 AMSemantic Web Extreme Goodness
Semantic Web Extreme Goodness
12/07/2003 09:24 AMsemanticweb.forpoets.org/archives/wonderful_stuff/semantic_web_extr
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How Google Will Have Achieved The
Semantic Web
How Google Will Have Achieved The
Semantic Web
08/01/2004 04:38 PMW3C 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.
Semantic Web Ready for Phase Two
Semantic Web Ready for Phase Two
05/20/2004 04:10 PMW3C director Tim Berners-Lee outlines the challenges ahead for the
concept of turning the Web into a giant database.
Realizing the Potential of the Semantic
Web
Realizing the Potential of the Semantic
Web
12/18/2003 01:06 PMRealizing the Potential of the Semantic Webhttp://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."
Semantic Behavior Index
Semantic Behavior Index
06/20/2004 11:16 AMJon 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...
W3C recommends Semantic Web specs
W3C recommends Semantic Web specs
02/10/2004 02:35 AMThe Web's leading standards group finalizes two drafts at the core of
its ambitious effort to let computers glean meaning from the documents
they help create, store and transfer.
The semantic web begins at home
The semantic web begins at home
01/07/2004 02:57 PMThe site for the First European Semantic Web Symposium is one of the
least semantic websites ever produced.
The Semantic Web, Syllogisms, and
Worldview
The Semantic Web, Syllogisms, and
Worldview
01/07/2004 02:52 PM
The W3C's Semantic Web project has been described in many ways over
the last few years: "an extension of the current web in which
information is given well-defined meaning" [1], "a place where
machines can analyze all the data on the Web" [2], even "a Web in
which machine reasoning will be ubiquitous and devastatingly
powerful." [3] The problem with descriptions this general, however, is
that they don't answer the obvious question: What is the Semantic Web
good for?
The simple answer is this: The Semantic Web is a machine for creating
syllogisms. A syllogism is a form of logic, first described by
Aristotle, where "...certain things being stated, something other than
what is stated follows of necessity from their being so."
The Semantic Web specifies ways of exposing assertions on the Web, so
that third parties can combine them to discover things that are true
but not specified directly. This is the promise of the Semantic Web --
it will improve all the areas of your life where you currently use
syllogisms.
Which is to say, almost nowhere.
- More at http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html
W3C Approves Semantic Web Specifications
W3C Approves Semantic Web Specifications
02/18/2004 09:24 PMThe World Wide Web Consortium has announced the approval of two
Semantic Web technologies as standards—RDF (Resource Description
Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language).
W3C completes the framework for the
Semantic Web
W3C completes the framework for the
Semantic Web
04/23/2004 05:35 AMIT-Analysis.com Apr 23 2004 9:23AM GMT
Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic
Web
Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic
Web
07/21/2004 06:12 PM2004-07-20: 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)
"The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and
Worldview"
"The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and
Worldview"
11/10/2003 11:14 PMSemText - Semantic HyperText
SemText - Semantic HyperText
04/21/2004 06:04 AMSemText - Semantic Hypertext - Making Latent Semantics
Blatanthttp://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
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Preparing for Semantic Web Services
Preparing for Semantic Web Services
05/02/2004 02:51 AMWebmasterBase May 2 2004 7:15AM GMT
Clay Cements the Semantic
Clay Cements the Semantic
11/10/2003 11:16 PMClay 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!...
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Semantic Web Interest Group
Semantic Web Interest Group
03/06/2004 01:48 AMReporting from the first W3C Semantic Web Interest Group meeting in
Cannes, France, Kendall Clark describes the wealth of activity in the
semantic web world.
RSS 2.0: Grouchy programmer 1, semantic
Web 0
RSS 2.0: Grouchy programmer 1, semantic
Web 0
06/05/2005 11:21 PMThe "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,...
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