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Spanish DBpedia Launched

Angela Guess — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:55 +0000

A new article reports, “After months of gratuitous hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French… DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia and making it accessible on the Web.” continued…

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The Semantic Link on Financial Services with Guest, Lee Feigenbaum – May, 2012

Eric Franzon — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:30:55 +0000

On Friday, May 11, a group of Semantic Technology thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the latest installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies. This episode includes a discussion about Semantics in the Financial Services Industry, and “the Linkers” were joined by special guest, Lee Feigenbaum, VP Marketing & Technology at Cambridge Semantics. Lee shared insights gained over many years working in the semantic technology field and with numerous customers in the financial services industry.
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Brazil Launches Open Data Portal

Angela Guess — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:30:37 +0000

Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation reports, “Last Friday (May 4), the Ministry of Planning in Brazil launched the final version of the Brazilian Open Data Portal. In line with the federal government policy to promote the use of free software in public administration, the portal was made using only free and open source tools. Among them is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open-source data portal software CKAN. Moreover, the whole process of development of the portal was conducted with the participation of concerned citizens in an open way to promote open data.” continued…

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Paper: Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

Angela Guess — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000

A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks, a paper that was presented at Museums and the Web 2012, is now available online. The paper was written by Katerina Tzompanaki, Martin Doerr Institute of Computer Science, F.O.R.T.H. Crete–Greece. The abstract states, “The upcoming large-scale metadata repositories, semantic networks of Resource Description Framework triples integrating large amounts of cultural–historical data, are not easily accessible to global query paradigms, such as ‘query by example’ or keyword search. ISO21127 (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model) is an adequate global schema for such systems, but querying individually hundreds of different kinds of properties leaves a huge recall gap compared to text retrieval, whereas a global restriction to ‘core metadata,’ such as Dublin Core, deprives the systems of any more advanced integration and reasoning capability.” continued…

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Why Tech Continues to Struggle with Language Translation

Angela Guess — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:05 +0000

Konstantin Kakaes of the New America Foundation recently discussed the NLP challenges of language translation. Kakaes writes, “Recently, on the eighth floor of an office building in Arlington, Va., Rachel held her finger down on a Dell Streak touchscreen and asked Aziz whether he knew the village elder. The handheld tablet beeped as if imitating R2-D2 and then said what sounded like, ‘Aya tai ahili che dev kali musha.’ Aziz replied in Pashto, and the Streak said in a monotone: ‘Yes, I know.’ Rachel asked: ‘Would you introduce me to him?’ Aziz failed to understand the machine’s translation (though he does speak English), so she asked again: ‘Could you introduce me to the village elder?’ This time, there was success, after a fashion. Aziz, via the device, replied: ‘Yes, I can introduce myself to you.’ Aziz, who is at most middle-aged and was wearing a sweater vest, was not the village elder.” continued…

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Schema.org Now Supports External Lists

Eric Franzon — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:22:12 +0000

The schema.org official blog has announced support for enumerated lists. Adding this support allows developers using schema.org to use selected externally maintained vocabularies in their schema.org markup. According to the W3C-hosted schema.org WebSchemas wiki, “This is in addition to the existing extension mechanisms we support, and the general ability to include whatever markup you like in your pages. The focus here is on external vocabularies which can be thought of as ‘supported’ (or anticipated) in some sense by schema.org.”

In other words, “Schema.org markup uses links into well-known authority lists to clarify which particular instance of a schema.org type (eg. Country) is being mentioned.”

For example, consider a list of countries of the world. A developer could use this URI from Wikipedia to reference the USA or this one from the UN FAO, or this one from GeoNames.

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Is Data Too Big To Know?

Angela Guess — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:00:56 +0000

Steven Rosenbaum of Forbes recently posed the question, is there too much information out there? He writes, “If anyone knows anything about the web, where it’s been and where it’s going, it’s David Weinberger. As a co-author of the seminal Clue Train Manifesto, Weinberger gave a generation of web innovators a clue as to how the web would evolve. In Too Big To Know Weinberger sets out to argue that the very nature of information and ideas is changing, even as you flip the pages of his book.”

Rosenbaum continues, “The world was, almost since the beginning of time, built around the concept of triangular knowledge. At the bottom of the triangle is data. Raw and unstructured. The Knowledge Triangle presented first in 1988 by Russel Akkoff presented DIKW (Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) as the basis for our information ecology. Weinberger says our Information Age was built on this pyramid – creating an elaborate filtering system to sort Wisdom from Data.”

Bing Gets a Makeover

Angela Guess — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:30:30 +0000

Lance Ulanoff of Mashable reports, “Bing has been reinvented, offering enhanced search results that tap into the power of social media. Microsoft has done this by pulling people out of search results and putting them in their place: A right-hand social column that will eventually include Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Quora and LinkedIn integration, as well as people who may know something about your most recent Bing query. It even offers a way to ask questions on your favorite social network, directly through Bing.”

Ulanoff continues, “It’s something of an about-face for the Number 2 search engine, which up until earlier this year has been slowly but surely integrating Facebook information (like “Likes”) directly into Bing Search results. continued…

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NetBase Expands SAP Relationship: Sign Of The Growing Social Enterprise — And The Need For IT To Take Bigger Role In It

Jennifer Zaino — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:58:12 +0000

At this week’s SAP Sapphire conference. NetBase will be taking its relationship with the enterprise vendor to the next level. Last December the two paired up to bring NetBase’s social intelligence (SI) to SAP BusinessObjects’ business intelligence (BI).

Coming up now is a complete integration of the NetBase technology into SAP’s Social On Demand customer relationship management (CRM) console. “Having access to social data is becoming critical to every part of the organization,” says NetBase chief marketing officer Lisa Joy Rosner. So, “social media [becomes] just one more data point” for which the enterprise must account.

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Bottlenose 3 Adds Reader, Newspaper Features

Angela Guess — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:00:04 +0000

Marisa Peacock reports that the new release of Bottlenose introduces reader and newspaper modules. She writes, “With Bottlenose 3, more than 30 new features work to improve the way users can connect with more types of social accounts, discover and respond to more than 140 kind of messages, and interact through more user friendly interfaces. Most, if not all of these new and improved features were the result of feedback from Bottlenose’s more than 50,000 beta testers, who have spent an average of 60 minutes a day using Bottlenose. Still in Beta, Bottlenose has released two completely new apps, ‘Reader’ and ‘Newspaper,’ as well as an improved version of Sonar, powered by Bottlenose’s platform, called StreamOS.” continued…

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Introducing the New Semantic Web Job Board

Angela Guess — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:23:05 +0000

SemanticWeb.com has been pointing out job openings in the semantic technology field that we thought would be of interest to our readers for some time. Now we have taken our career resources to the next level by launching jobs.semanticweb.com. The job board features prominent opportunities in the Semantic Technology space.

Eric Franzon, VP Community said, “With daily news about the organizations building and employing Semantic Technology solutions, thought leadership pieces by community leaders, and our strong answers.semanticweb.com community of developers, we reach tens of thousands of Semantic Technology professionals every month. A job board was a natural addition to our offerings. SemanticWeb.com has simply become the best place for businesses to find the top talent with semantic technology skills.”

Job seekers are encouraged to visit the board today – there are jobs listed now that need to be filled. If you have a job to post, or know of someone who is looking for Semantic Technology talent, please point them to http://jobs.semanticweb.com. Job listings carry a satisfaction guarantee as well. We will refund the money of any job poster who is not completely satisfied.

On a related note, the Semantic Technology and Business Conference in San Francisco is offering a “Career Corner” for the second consecutive year. Register for SemTechBiz here (Price breaks expire Tuesday, May 15).

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Learning from Open Data in Italy with YourTopia

Angela Guess — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:00:09 +0000

Velichka Dimitrova of the Open Knowledge Foundation recently discussed the launch of Yourtopia Italia, an open data portal for Italy. She writes, “In countries like Italy stark regional differences have dominated over time. Particularly in times of fiscal austerity when the country attempts to recover from an economic crisis with major social consequences, seeing how and why the South and the North differ is an important step in a consensus-building process to find solutions and realise collaboration with the citizens. The Open Economics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation released YourTopia Italia – an application which gives the users a chance to input their priorities in eight categories of socio-economic progress: Labour Market, Education, Health, Environment and Energy, Science and Research, Household Income and Inequality, Public Safety, and Social Life.” continued…

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The Flexibility of Semantic Technology

Angela Guess — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:11 +0000

Rob Gonzalez of Cambridge Semantics recently commented on a LinkedIn thread started by Michael Uschold. Uschold asked the question, “How is semantic technology more flexible than relational technology?” One commenter stated, “If you ‘mess up’ your choice of initial vocabulary, then semantic systems have similar sorts of problems to relational systems, in that you may have to restructure the vocabulary at a later date (just like you have to restructure relational schemas), and hence restructure the data. My experience suggests that such restructuring happens (far?) less often with semantic systems than with relational systems, and that the restructuring is easier, since you can always treat your data as one big list of triples.” continued…

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Semantic Web Jobs: Thomson Reuters

Angela Guess — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:30:04 +0000

Thomson Reuters is looking for a Bioinformatics Analyst in Philadelphia, PA. The post states, “The role of Bioinformatics Analyst is to develop products and services that leverage internal and external ontologies, text mining and analytics to enhance the Life Sciences value propositions in core products and services engagements across the global organization. This highly motivated individual will be expected to take ownership of their workload; act independently & knowledgably as the key contact within the group for ontologies and text mining; work directly with internal and external customers to determine requirements and propose new offerings; work closely with Sales in customer engagements and work to deliver reusable components that answer specific business needs.” continued…

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Web Developers Can Now Easily “Play” with RDFa

Eric Franzon — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:10:19 +0000

Yesterday, we announced RDFa.info, a new site devoted to helping developers add RDFa (Resource Description Framework-in-attributes) to HTML.

Building on that work, the team behind RDFa.info is announcing today the release of “PLAY,” a live RDFa editor and visualization tool. This release marks a significant step in providing tools for web developers that are easy to use, even for those unaccustomed to working with RDFa.

“Play” is an effort that serves several purposes. It is an authoring environment and markup debugger for RDFa that also serves as a teaching and education tool for Web Developers. As Alex Milowski, one of the core RDFa.info team, said, “It can be used for purposes of experimentation, documentation (e.g. crafting an example that produces certain triples), and testing. If you want to know what markup will produce what kind of properties (triples), this tool is going to be great for understanding how you should be structuring your own data.”

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