Dataset Dynamics meet-up at WWW2010

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Hausenblas
All, Changes in Linked Data sources (dataset dynamics) and how to deal with it are an important and emerging issue [1][2]. As already mentioned, there will be a dataset dynamics meet-up at WWW2010. I first planned to register a BoF, but it is still unclear if this is possible [3]. I'd now

FaceBook taking over the web, and semantic web

2010-04-23 Thread ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program
Dear all, Facebook plans to take over the web, by creating open graph based semantic content. See: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2010/04/22/facebook-f8-internet-open-social-graph-semantic-web-twitter.aspx FaceBook has come under fire for selling information about users

Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Bernard Vatant
Alexander : It would be useful to have a list of currently available mappings to GeoNames. It would be useful not only for people like me who create custom RDF datasets but also for people who want to contribute additional mappings. Seems a good idea Daniel : Re-publish your data with

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
sws.geonames URIs, SPARQL endpoint etc. Bearing in mind that Geonames.org has no dedicated resources for it, who will care of that in a scalable way? What is the business model? Good questions. Volunteers, step forward :) Bernard Hi Bernard, the need to automatically interlink at large

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi Giovanni 2010/4/23 Giovanni Tummarello giovanni.tummare...@deri.org Hi Bernard, the need to automatically interlink at large scale, and give clean, and high performance querable datasets to users is well recognized and supported e.g. also by the new EU funded projects which still cant be

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
so hang on tight a bit.. we're working on this, just continue publishing high quality data with good entity descriptions (as much as you know about YOUR stuff), and the links will come to you just like that at some point. I promise :) WOW ... rings a bell ...and all these things will be

Re: LOD community gathering in Raleigh

2010-04-23 Thread Hugh Glaser
I suggest the Flying Saucer may suit. http://www.beerknurd.com/stores/raleigh/ I was there this evening, during a local beerfest and they coped with a huge number of people. I also found that they have quite an interesting selection of beers and plaid belts, but that is incidental to their ability

Re: LOD community gathering in Raleigh

2010-04-23 Thread Juan Sequeda
Flying Saucer is a perfect option! They are a great beer chain here. (It's great to talk about beer on this mailing list) Juan Sequeda +1-575-SEQ-UEDA www.juansequeda.com On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: I suggest the Flying Saucer may suit.