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The Web's next act: A worldwide database

November 10, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

HTML+RDFa “is a promising development,” said Michael Daconta, chief technology officer at Accelerated Information Management, former metadata program manager at the Homeland Security Department and a GCN columnist.

Daconta cautioned that the field of semantic markup still faces a chicken-or-egg problem in which Web managers need tools to embed RDF on their pages and organizations need tools to parse RDF information for their own services. But such tools for either party probably won’t be created until RDF starts to become more widely used.
(Link: The Web’s next act: A worldwide database)

rdf, semanticweb

ThisWeKnow: New Semantic Web App Tames Massive Data Sets from Data.gov – ReadWriteStart

September 8, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Developed by a consortium of three different organizations (web app shop and data analysis firm GreenRiver.org, web design studio Sway Design, and semantic web database company Intellidimension), ThisWeKnow is written in Ruby on Rails. It communicates via SPARQL to an RDF database. The source code is available under an MIT license at GitHub. Users can also see the SPARQL query that generated the information on any particular page of the site.

Out of the box, ThisWeKnow presents interesting information; however, we are interested to see how the developers proceed to offer more options for sorting, comparing, and visualizing the available data.
(Link: ThisWeKnow: New Semantic Web App Tames Massive Data Sets from Data.gov – ReadWriteStart)

opendata, semanticweb, sparql

Common Tag Brings Standards to Metadata

June 12, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Common Tag is a new tagging format that creates references to concretely defined concepts with their own metadata and URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can simply topic hubs, cross-promote content, and enrich pages with data, images, and widgets.
(Link: Common Tag Brings Standards to Metadata)

semanticweb

Enterprises, Struggling to Manage Your Data? Give The Semantic Web a Try…

May 29, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 1 Comment

PwC wrote in the report that the underlying technology of the Semantic Web applies not just to online data, but to “internal information and non-Web-based external information” – including a company’s data warehouse. Currently enterprises struggle with hefty relational databases, but PwC says that the Semantic Web could both lower costs and provide more data. What’s more companies can contribute their “non-sensitive” ontologies to the Linked data cloud
(Link: Enterprises, Struggling to Manage Your Data? Give The Semantic Web a Try…)

data, semanticweb

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