Awesome! Congrats! It seems like everybody is checking it out because http://sig.ma/ is down.. at least for me.
Juan Sequeda +1-575-SEQ-UEDA www.juansequeda.com On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Giovanni Tummarello < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, Sig.ma Enterprise Edition (EE) is now available open source > from http://sig.ma . It can be deployed easily and merge the sources > you want both from Sindice and from your chosed LOD sources. > > blog post excerpt follows > > ---- > > The original Sig.ma > > The http://sig.ma service was created as a demonstration of live, on > the fly Web of Data mashup. Provide a query and Sig.ma will > demonstrate how the Web of Data is likely to contain surprising > structured information about it (pages that embed RDF, RDFa, > Microdata, Microformats) > > By using the Sindice search engine Sig.ma allows a person to get a > (live) view of what’s on the “Web of Data” about a given topic. For > more information see our blog post. For academic use please cite > Sig.ma as in [1]. > > Introducing Sig.ma Enterprise Edition (EE) > > We’re happy today to introduce Sig.ma EE , a standalone, deployable, > customisable version of Sig.ma. > > Sig.ma EE is deployed as a web application and will perform on the fly > data integration from both local data source and remote services > (including Sindice.com) ; just like Sig.ma but mixing your chosen > public and private sources. > > Sig.ma EE currently supports the following data providers: > > * SPARQL endpoints (tested on Virtuoso, 4store ) > * YBoss + the Web (Uses YBoss to search then Any23 to get the data) > * Sindice (with optionally the ability to use Sindice Cache API for > fast parallel data collection) > > It is very easy to customise visually and to implement new custom data > providers (e.g. for your relational or CMS data) by following > documentation provided with Sig.ma EE. > > Want to give it a quick try? Sig.ma EE now also powers the service on > the http://sig.ma homepage so you can add a custom datasource (e.g. > your publicly available SPARQL endpoint) directly from the “Options” > menu you get after you search for something. It is very easy to > implement new custom data source (e.g. for your relational or web CMS > data) by implementing interfaces following the examples. > > Sig.ma EE is open source and available for download. The standard > license under which Sig.ma EE is distributed is the GNU Affero General > Public License, version 3. Sig.ma EE is also available under a > commercial licence. Please contact us to discuss further. > > Acknowledgements > > Sig.MA EE is built with as part of the LOD2 project. http://lod2.eu > Call: FP7-ICT-2009-5 > > > [1] Giovanni Tummarello, Richard Cyganiak, Michele Catasta, Szymon > Danielczyk, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker “Sig.ma: Live views on the > Web of Data”, Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents > on the World Wide Web – Volume 8, Issue 4, November 2010, Pages > 355-364 > >
