Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

kingsley, from a marketing perspective the first question one has to ask: who is the audience? if you call it mesh-up, many people think: oh, that's a typo. if you call it hack-a-thon some people feel attracted from outside of the ld-community. so, who shall he the audience of this event?

Re: Making human-friendly linked data pages more human-friendly

I think there are a few scenarios here. In my mind, dbpedia.org is a site for tripleheads. I use it all the time when I'm trying to understand how my systems interact with data from dbpedia -- for that purpose, it's useful to see a reasonably formatted list of triples associated with an i

Extended Deadline (21st September): ASWC 2009 Call for Posters and Demos

ASWC 2009 Call for Posters and Demos http://www.aswc2009.org/research-paper-track/callpostersdemos Fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) 6-9 December, 2009 Shangai, China The Asian Semantic Web Conference is the yearly conference on theoretical foundations, technological building blo

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

I for one vote for "John and Juan's Data Jamboree" Less name choosing / bike shedding people! Let's pick some datasets to mesh and start generating ideas... I'll start: 1) http://wines.doconnor.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/index Wines is a simple freebase application which looks for things typed w

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

Hi Juan, Great idea, and should be a lot of fun to get together with people to try and build cool stuff with Linked Data. So count me in. Might be worth building a wiki page to throw out some ideas and/or datasets that haven't had much attention yet. Cheers, L. 2009/9/16 Juan Sequeda : > Hi ev

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

blumau...@punkt.at wrote: kingsley, from a marketing perspective the first question one has to ask: who is the audience? if you call it mesh-up, many people think: oh, that's a typo. if you call it hack-a-thon some people feel attracted from outside of the ld-community. so, who shall he the

Re: Making human-friendly linked data pages more human-friendly

Paul A Houle wrote: I think there are a few scenarios here. In my mind, dbpedia.org is a site for tripleheads. I use it all the time when I'm trying to understand how my systems interact with data from dbpedia -- for that purpose, it's useful to see a reasonably

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

Daniel O'Connor wrote: I for one vote for "John and Juan's Data Jamboree" Less name choosing / bike shedding people! You need a name for an event based on the audience that you have in mind. For Linked Data, we want to create gravitational pull from outside the current community. Talking to

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

I agree with this definition of hacker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28hobbyist%29 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > blumau...@punkt.at wrote: > >> kingsley, from a marketing perspective the first question one has to ask: >> who is the audience? >> >> if you call i

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

Juan -- It's rather simple. To convey what linked data is to the outside bubblers, we simply need to have Oprah understand it. Before Oprah tweeted on her show, Twitter was used by the early adopters, sorry I don't have the number offhand. After Oprah got it, Twitter went/is everywhere. If Opr

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

Corey, Amen to that! Let me rephrase: I urge everybody to try to explain what Linked Data and the Semantic Web is to 1) web developer 2) CEO 3) VC investors 4) my parents 5) Oprah! Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin www.juansequeda.com www.sem

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

Juan, Let me rephrase: I urge everybody to try to explain what Linked Data and the Semantic Web is to 1) web developer 2) CEO 3) VC investors 4) my parents 5) Oprah! Except of 1), don't try to explain what Linked Data is: show them cool applications instead and how they can benefit from

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

On 17 Sep 2009, at 14:04, Juan Sequeda wrote: I agree with this definition of hacker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28hobbyist%29 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Kingsley Idehen > wrote: blumau...@punkt.at wrote: kingsley, from a marketing perspective the first question one has to a

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

> > Let me rephrase: I urge everybody to try to explain what Linked Data > > and the > > Semantic Web is to 1) web developer 2) CEO 3) VC investors 4) my > > parents 5) > > Oprah! > > Except of 1), don't try to explain what Linked Data is: show them cool > applications instead and how they

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

Sandro On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Sandro Hawke wrote: > > > > Let me rephrase: I urge everybody to try to explain what Linked Data > > > and the > > > Semantic Web is to 1) web developer 2) CEO 3) VC investors 4) my > > > parents 5) > > > Oprah! > > > > Except of 1), don't try to explain w

Defining What Linked Data Meme is to various audiences (Parents, CEOs, VCs, etc.)

All, Here is a simple statement that describes the Web inflection ushered in by the Linked Data meme: Describe yourself, your wants, and your offerings clearly, and then leave the Web to do the REST. The emergence of HTML+RDFa combined with vocabularies such as GoodRelations makes the above co

Re: Linked Data Mash-a-thon

Corey Leong wrote: Juan -- It's rather simple. To convey what linked data is to the outside bubblers, we simply need to have Oprah understand it. Before Oprah tweeted on her show, Twitter was used by the early adopters, sorry I don't have the number offhand. After Oprah got it, Twitter went/i

Contd: Defining What Linked Data Meme is to various audiences (Parents, CEOs, VCs, etc.)

All, Missing link re. my podcast session with Jon Udell [1] referred to in my earlier post. Theme: Describe yourself, your wants, and your offerings clearly, and then leave the Web to do the REST. The emergence of HTML+RDFa combined with vocabularies such as GoodRelations makes the above com

Re: Making human-friendly linked data pages more human-friendly

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > > > This is basically an aspect of the whole Linked Data meme that is lost on > too many. > > I've got to thank the book by Allemang and Hendler http://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Web-Working-Ontologist-Effective/dp/0123735564 for setting me

Re: Making human-friendly linked data pages more human-friendly

Paul A Houle wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: This is basically an aspect of the whole Linked Data meme that is lost on too many. I've got to thank the book by Allemang and Hendler http://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Web-W

Re: Making human-friendly linked data pages more human-friendly

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Schema Last vs. Schema First :-) An RDF virtue that once broadly understood, > across the more traditional DBMS realms, will work wonders for RDF based > Linked Data appreciation. > That's the conclusion that I'm coming to. I've been think

Re: Making human-friendly linked data pages more human-friendly

Paul A Houle wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: Schema Last vs. Schema First :-) An RDF virtue that once broadly understood, across the more traditional DBMS realms, will work wonders for RDF based Linked Data appreciat

Re: Making human-friendly linked data pages more human-friendly

On 16/09/2009 20:20, "Paul A Houle" wrote: > > Database-backed sites traditionally do this with a mixture of declarative SQL > code and procedural code to create a view...  It would be interesting to see > RDF systems where the graph traversal is specified and transformed into a > website declari

Updated GeoSpecies Data Set

I have fixed a number of issues and improved LOD linkages for the GeoSpecies data set. You can read about it here: http://about.geospecies.org/ You can browse it here: http://lod.geospecies.org/ The RDF dump can be obtained here: Here i