Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Bernard, I really hope they have delivered something people (outside this community) will find useful. Otherwise you will perhaps be happy that they tried to take all the credit. As you said, it's not completely news and the expectations are great. Regards, Michael Brunnbauer On Thu,

UMAP 2012: Workshop on Augmented User Modeling (AUM), deadline: May 27th

2012-05-17 Thread Fabian Abel
2nd International Workshop on: ** Augmented User Modeling ** http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/aum2012/ In conjunction with UMAP 2012 20th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Montreal, Canada, 16 - 20 July 2012 IMPORTANT DATES * 27 May:

Deadline extension for SWIB11 (Semantic Web in Libraries) to 31.5.2012

2012-05-17 Thread Neubert Joachim
Due to several requests the submission deadline to the forth conference Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB), 26.-28.11.2012 in Cologne, has been extended to May 31, 2012. The call for proposals here once again: Call for Participation: SWIB12 Semantic Web in Bibliotheken (Semantic Web in Libraries)

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Barry Norton
On 16/05/2012 23:55, Bernard Vatant wrote: Kingsley says they have Freebase, yes but Freebase stores only 22 million entities according to their own stats, which makes less than 5% of the overall figure, since Google claims 500 million nodes in the Knowledge Graph, and growing. So I guess

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/17/12 10:06 AM, Barry Norton wrote: On 16/05/2012 23:55, Bernard Vatant wrote: Kingsley says they have Freebase, yes but Freebase stores only 22 million entities according to their own stats, which makes less than 5% of the overall figure, since Google claims 500 million nodes in the

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Steve Harris
On 2012-05-16, at 23:09, David Wood wrote: On May 16, 2012, at 17:45, Bernard Vatant wrote: Thanks to all who had this ground ploughed and sown patiently since those dark ages where Google was all but an idea. Now the grain is ripe and it's a great time for them to harvest ... hope we

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Steve Harris
On 2012-05-17, at 00:04, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 5/16/12 6:55 PM, Bernard Vatant wrote: Adrian Don't dream of accessing the Google Knowledge Graph and query it through a SPARQL endpoint as you do for DBpedia. As every Google critical technological infrastructure, I'm afraid it will

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Schwabe
On May 17, 2012, at 12:22 - 17/05/12, Steve Harris wrote: And it will be query accessible, this is something that's inevitable and unavoidable. This is the Web. I doubt it. Google don't even allow API access to their search engine. I can still remember the days when they were a

looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Christian Morbidoni
Hi, I've been looking for same example of skos vocabulary to use as a real world test case in a project. Surprisingly I cannot find so much around...do someone know about an archive of skos vocabularies or some good example of skos in use? I'm starting to wonder...is people using skos out there?

Re: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Jeni Tennison
Christian, On 17 May 2012, at 16:43, Christian Morbidoni wrote: I've been looking for same example of skos vocabulary to use as a real world test case in a project. Surprisingly I cannot find so much around...do someone know about an archive of skos vocabularies or some good example of skos

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/17/12 11:18 AM, Steve Harris wrote: Still, Kingsley is right, too. We are certainly busier than we have ever been, with no clear end in sight. That's positive. It would feel much more positive if I thought we were trying to solve the right problems. It would be much easier to know if I

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/17/12 11:22 AM, Steve Harris wrote: On 2012-05-17, at 00:04, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 5/16/12 6:55 PM, Bernard Vatant wrote: Adrian Don't dream of accessing the Google Knowledge Graph and query it through a SPARQL endpoint as you do for DBpedia. As every Google critical technological

Re: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/17/12 11:43 AM, Christian Morbidoni wrote: Hi, I've been looking for same example of skos vocabulary to use as a real world test case in a project. Surprisingly I cannot find so much around...do someone know about an archive of skos vocabularies or some good example of skos in use? I'm

Re: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Leif Warner
If you want some large ones, there's the AGROVOC dataset, and id.loc.gov. Smaller, the instrument taxonomy with Music Ontology. On May 17, 2012 8:46 AM, Christian Morbidoni christian.morbid...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been looking for same example of skos vocabulary to use as a real world

RE: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Young,Jeff (OR)
Here's a search of the Data Hub: http://thedatahub.org/dataset?q=skos Jeff From: Christian Morbidoni [mailto:christian.morbid...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:43 AM To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: looking for skos vocabularies Hi, I've been looking for same example

Re: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Gannon Dick
The US Library of Congress has an ID Server.  Each entry is in SKOS {domain}/vocabulary/{type}/{code} dot {skos.rdf} examples Europe http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e.skos.rdf UK http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/countries/xxk.skos.rdf From: Jeni

RE: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Panzer,Michael
As an example for a multilingual SKOS vocabulary there is http://dewey.info. Since the DDC is a classification system, this is a somewhat nontraditional SKOS application / use case. Cheers Michael From: Christian Morbidoni [mailto:christian.morbid...@gmail.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 17.

Re: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, There's a pretty comprehensive set of links available here: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/SKOS/Datasets Cheers, L. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Christian Morbidoni christian.morbid...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been looking for same example of skos vocabulary to use as a real world

Re: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Thomas FRANCART
As an addition, since it is not listed at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/SKOS/Datasets, you can request a free licence for a SKOS-XL version of Eurovoc, the European Commission Thesaurus, in 22 languages, at http://eurovoc.europa.eu. Pretty detailled and using all the advanced features of SKOS-XL.

Re: looking for skos vocabularies

2012-05-17 Thread Phil Archer
Christian, some new RDF data that makes use of SKOS and more is available from the British Geological Survey via http://data.bgs.ac.uk/ It includes the geological time scale and a lot more as triples. HTH On 17/05/2012 16:43, Christian Morbidoni wrote: Hi, I've been looking for same

Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

2012-05-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
All, I have a theory (at this point) that Google has used profile analytics (not a bad thing per se.) to drive the rollout of their new Knowledge Graph service. I've dropped a post on G+ with links to a Google Drive folder with screenshots that feed my current theory about profile driven

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Barry Norton barry.nor...@ontotext.comwrote: On 16/05/2012 23:55, Bernard Vatant wrote: Kingsley says they have Freebase, yes but Freebase stores only 22 million entities according to their own stats, which makes less than 5% of the overall figure, since

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

2012-05-17 Thread Ivan Herman
Kingsley, the problem is that, as usual, the GKG is a US centric thing for now, At least here in the Netherlands it does not seem to work yet. (I guess I could set up a proxy to my account in MIT, and reconfigure my browsers to work that way, but that is too much trouble...) :-( Ivan ---

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

2012-05-17 Thread Eric Franzon
Ivan, Actually, some modest testing has shown something other than geography at play here. Earlier today, colleagues in London and California were able to see GKG rich data visualizations, while others in the US (myself included -- also in California) and Europe could not. I spoke to a Google