CfP - 2nd international Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives

2012-05-16 Thread Kai Eckert
Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested parties. *** ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

Where is BestBuy RDF?

2012-05-16 Thread David Wood
Hi all, I recently noticed that the BestBuy RDF is no longer available at: http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com ...and that the links on the Good Relations sites page are out of date: http://notes.3kbo.com/goodrelations-sites Can anyone point me to the current location for the BestBuy data?

18th-19th June 2012 Linking Open Vocabularies (LOV) Symposium and SKOS-2-HIVE Workshop

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Vila
[You might receive this message also through other email-lists. Sorry for cross-posting] Dear all, It is a pleasure for me to announce, two *FREE linked data/open vocabularies events*: Linking and Opening Vocabularies (LOV) Symposium SKOS-2-HIVE Workshop (in Spanish and English). Look here

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/16/12 4:02 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: Big thumbs up (at least in principle) from google on linked data http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html +1000... It's getting real interesting. Google and Facebook as massive Linked Data Spaces, awesome!

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/16/12 5:45 PM, 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 are left with some crumbs to pick up as a reward of our

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread David Wood
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 are left with some crumbs to pick up as a reward

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Adrian Walker
Hi All, Nice videos etc, but has anyone found a link to actually *use* Knowledge Graph ? If it's not online yet, one wonders why Google chose to pre-announce it. Thanks, -- Adrian Internet Business Logic A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English Q/A over

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/16/12 6:25 PM, Adrian Walker wrote: Hi All, Nice videos etc, but has anyone found a link to actually *use* Knowledge Graph ? If it's not online yet, one wonders why Google chose to pre-announce it. Thanks, -- Adrian Cos Linked Data changes behavior :-) This is a

RE: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Joshi, Amit Krishna
Good news for all of us in the semantic web community. Just wondering why Google is reluctant to use 'semantic' word even once in the blog. - Amit From: Kingsley Idehen [kide...@openlinksw.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:32 PM To: public-lod@w3.org

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Bernard Vatant
... To put it in a longer way. Yes this is great news, although it's not completely news, we had quite a few hints of it by Google in the past months. But what is just unfair is Google presenting this as if they had invented it. Apart from a quick allusion to DBpedia and Freebase, no mention of

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/16/12 6:33 PM, Amit Krishna Joshi wrote: Good news for all of us in the semantic web community. Just wondering why Google is reluctant to use 'semantic' word even once in the blog http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html. As they say: its

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Bernard Vatant
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 be well hidden under the hood, and accessible only through the search interface. If they ever expose

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
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 be well hidden under the hood, and accessible only

Re: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Schwabe
On May 16, 2012, at 20:04 - 16/05/12, 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: Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

2012-05-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 5/16/12 8:32 PM, Daniel Schwabe wrote: On May 16, 2012, at 20:04 - 16/05/12, 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