Frederick Giasson wrote:
Hi Kingsley,
don't know. In a O'Reilly about Google's RDFa support, Guha says
that they draw and plan to draw from existing vocabularies.
"And we're not going to do this all by ourselves. As it is, we are
drawing from several sources. We're drawing from microformats. We're
drawing from vCard. And there are other places that you will see.
And there's other people who know more about their topics than we
could possibly know. And we'll draw on all of these things. So to
come back and answer your question, we hope that the scope of this
will be substantially more than the scope of all the particular data
types that work today by microformats."
See
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-adds-microformat-parsin.html
Cheers
Chris
All,
Even if Google makes up their own vocabulary, so what? Is this whole
game about meshing structured data? This is simply a case of meshing
their vocabulary with other vocabularies.
btw - the UMBEL framework has existed with this sort of thing in mind
for eons. Middleware style integration isn't an ABox realm
constrained activity, you can integrate in the TBox realm, and in
actuality this is where the real magic will happen :-)
Thanks for remembering this stuff. I would suggest some more reading
about these capabilities and this mindset here: about umbel
[1][2][3][4], about the ABox / TBox split in the semweb [2]
This should gives most of the background information needed to
understand this usage of UMBEL describe by Kingsley above. Also
include all the blog posts by Kingsley that talks about the usage of
UMBEL to create their inference indexes that they (OL) apply to most
of their online demo.
[1]
http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/04/exploding-dbpedias-domain-using-umbel/
[2]
http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/29/umbel-as-a-coherent-framework-to-support-ontology-development/
[3]
http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/starting-to-play-with-the-umbel-ontology/
[4] http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=454
[5] http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=470
Thanks,
Fred
All,
We now have a live example of OWL and Linked Data playing well thanks to
Google.
See: http://tr.im/lsIK
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