I disagree with your overall tone here: sure there's a bunch of propriety tech in use; but there are certainly links back to the linked data world.
"No commitment" I would disagree with. Not sure how to proceed serving the best of both worlds? That might be more accurate. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Hondros, Constantine < [email protected]> wrote: > It's big news for the wider Semantic Web community, as it shows that Google > is determined to extract better semantics from pages it crawls ... but it's > mediocre news for the LOD community. Freebase is based on proprietary > database technology, it relies on its own graph data format, is queryable by > its own query language (MQL, based on JSON), and makes no commitment to RDf, > OWL and SPARQL beyond supporting a SPARQL end-point (in beta). > > The best case is that Google is just buying the entity extraction expertise > and software deployed by Freebase ... the worst case is that they end up > leapfrogging the Semantic Web standards in favour of their own ... > > C. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Nathan > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:57 PM > To: Semantic Web; Linked Data community > Subject: Metaweb joins Google > > Suprised this one isn't already posted! > > Metaweb (inc Freebase) has joined google: > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/deeper-understanding-with-metaweb.html > http://blog.freebase.com/2010/07/16/metaweb-joins-google/ > > Big (huge) news & congrats to all involved, > > Best, > > Nathan > > > > This email and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged > information > and is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended > recipient, please > immediately notify us by email or telephone and delete the original email > and attachments > without using, disseminating or reproducing its contents to anyone other > than the intended > recipient. Wolters Kluwer shall not be liable for the incorrect or > incomplete transmission of > of this email or any attachments, nor for unauthorized use by its > employees. > > Wolters Kluwer nv has its registered address in Alphen aan den Rijn, The > Netherlands, and is registered > with the Trade Registry of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number > 33202517. > > >
