Thanks for the information! I have posted
http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/numeric-web-search
an hope it helps.
Let me know if you have further ideas and suggestions, I am always interested.
Wolfgang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kingsley Idehen" <[email protected]>
To: "Semantics-ProjectParadigm" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; "Wolfgang Orthuber" <[email protected]>;
"semantic-web"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: numeric data on the web, numeric web search
Semantics-ProjectParadigm wrote:
Excellent and timely starting point. Will definitely look into sending in ideas
about making available data
that will help stimulate "green revolution" and generate green jobs.
Even if the Govts. of the world simply publish XML based structured data, that
alone would deliver full
employment and lots of follow-on opportunities for the RDFization technology
developers :-)
So as long as the data is structured, there will be huge opportunities for
those that grok Linked Data and
the process of RDFization, esp. those that generate wrapper/proxy based Linked
Data URIs :-)
Kingsley
December 2009 in Denmark follow up to Kyoto is coming up. Oceans of raw data
waiting to be processed to
come up with policies that both address climate change issues AND generate new
jobs!
Milton Ponson
GSM: +297 747 8280
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
www.rainbowwarriors.net
Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable
development to all
stakeholders worldwide
www.projectparadigm.info
NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm
www.ngo-opensource.org
MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and
information for sustainable
development
www.metaportal.info
SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in the
Metaportal project
www.semanticwebsoftware.info
--- On *Wed, 4/29/09, Kingsley Idehen /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: numeric data on the web, numeric web search
To: "Semantics-ProjectParadigm" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], "Wolfgang Orthuber"
<[email protected]>, "semantic-web" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 7:50 PM
Semantics-ProjectParadigm wrote:
> See
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html.
>
> This is the first intent at making large amounts of data
available in structured formats.
>
> Although it is not linked data in all conceivable formats from
all sources on the web, the fact that the E-Government Act is
forcing US federal agencies public data to make their data more
accessible could be the push required to get linked data
initiatives to the next level.
>
> Time for a Semantic Web/Linked Data lobby in DC to make funding
available to expand to all public domains.\
>
We can start here:
http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/make-collecting-recovery-data-agile-using-semantic-web-technology
:-)
Kingsley
>
> Milton Ponson
> GSM: +297 747 8280
> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
> www.rainbowwarriors.net
> Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools
for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide
> www..projectparadigm.info
> NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for
Project Paradigm
> www.ngo-opensource.org
> MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and
repositories of data and information for sustainable development
> www.metaportal.info
> SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW
technologies in the Metaportal project
> www.semanticwebsoftware.info
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 4/29/09, Wolfgang Orthuber
/<[email protected]
</mc/[email protected]>>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Wolfgang Orthuber <[email protected]
</mc/[email protected]>>
> Subject: numeric data on the web, numeric web search
> To: [email protected] </mc/[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:25 PM
>
> Hello!
> We know that quantifiable objects play a central role
in daily
> life. Nevertheless up to now quantifiable objects have in
general
> no well defined globally machine readable and precise
> representation on the web. The following concept proposes a
simple
> data structure called "pattern" for such representation of
> quantifiable objects in general which also allows their
similarity
> search:
> --------
> * Numeric web search *
> Web search is up to now word based. Additionally language
> independent similarity search of quantifiable objects is
> desirable. For well defined numeric representation of
quantifiable
> objects a simple data structure called "pattern" is proposed,
> which contains a feature vector (a sequence of numbers) for
> representation of the object, and a "pattern name" which is
a URI
> which uniquely identifies the kind of object which is
represented
> by the feature vector.
> Pattern: Pattern name + feature
> vector (+ auxilliary data)
> Patterns with the same pattern name represent the same
kind of
> object. Because the number of possible pattern names is not
> limited*, infinitely* many different kinds of quantifiable
objects
> can be represented by patterns. (*only physically limited by
> finite time and energy)
> So the search terms are not words, but feature vectors
in patterns
> which allow quantification of similarity. Feature vectors of
> patterns with the same pattern name are directly comparable
using
> a given metric. At this similarities of the original
quantifiable
> objects are mapped to spatial similarities of the feature
vectors.
> So similarity search is possible by calculating distances:
Objects
> are the more similar, the smaller the distance between the
feature
> vectors of the representing patterns is.
> Due to the multitude of different kinds of quantifiable
objects
> the work for development of efficient pattern resp. feature
vector
> definitions for their representation is open ended. Global task
> sharing has the greatest potential: According to this suggestion
> every owner of an internet domain name abc.xyz gets the right to
> define feature vectors of all patterns with names abc.xyz/* (in
> well defined location abc.xyz/pat/*).
> Patterns are machine readable, uniformly comparable and
> searchable. They allow to search with the same search engine not
> only for text, but also for an increasing number of well-defined
> quantifiable objects on the web. This bundling of the search
> activity into one crawler and web database for all quantifiable
> objects is much more efficient than building and managing a
> database and a crawler for every kind of object.
> Numeric similarity search could be efficiently combined
with
> conventional word based search. Details are described in
> http://www.orthuber.com/wpa.htm , don't hesitate to ask me
further
> questions.
> --------------------
> It seems clear that introduction of the above conventions would
> have relevant advantages. Can this get support that we can
step by
> step realize this?
> Regards
> Wolfgang Orthuber (Mathematician and Orthodontist at
University
> of Kiel / Germany)
>
>
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog:
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
