Invitation to attend OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) 2008

2008-09-25 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
Apologies if you receive this message more than once Registration Registration is now open for OWLED 2008, to be held October 26-27 in Karlsruhe, Germany, colocated with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). To register, go to the ISWC Registration page: http://iswc2008.sem

Re: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread Bernard Vatant
Jason An EU consortium? Is this going to end like the Lisbon treaty? :) Easy target, but beware of not being too sarcastic here about European projects. :-) First because there are a lot of European people around this space, and moreover a lot of Semantic Web related projects have been an

RE: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread jason
I started a discussion on this topic (http://groups.google.com/group/open-guid-discussion/browse_thread/thread/0bbc190aa80287d8) to avoid polluting this list with the sordid details. The goal is to maximize linkage and minimize duplication and pollution with obtuse inferencing concepts.

RE: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread jason
An EU consortium? Is this going to end like the Lisbon treaty? :) Thanks for the tip, my research did not uncover them. Maybe because the name is obtuse? While Open GUID isn't a good brand name for a t-shirt, it's at least evocative of it's singular purpose. I will reach out to them. Though

Re: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have not loaded DBPedia yet. I started with WordNet 3.0, which apparently did not deem IBM as a part of our language (note Mircosoft and Google do make the cut!). See the (http://openguid.net/roadmap) for more details on the data loading initiative. Once that is c

Re: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Jason, i believe you're persuing exactly the same goal as the Okkam project (http://okkam.org). unlike okkam however you have something up alrady at a nice visible, uncluttered website. This mail of mine is just so that you know tha tther eis this common research effort and in fact to say that

RE: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread jason
Yes, I have not loaded DBPedia yet. I started with WordNet 3.0, which apparently did not deem IBM as a part of our language (note Mircosoft and Google do make the cut!). See the (http://openguid.net/roadmap) for more details on the data loading initiative. Once that is complete, if your favorite (

Re: AW: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark V2 - Results for Sesame, Virtuoso, Jena TDB, D2R Server, and MySQL

2008-09-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Chris Bizer wrote: Hi Kingsley and Paul, Yes, I completely agree with you that different storage solutions fit different use cases and that one of the main strengths of the RDF data model is its flexibility and the possibility to mix different schemata. Nevertheless, it think it is useful to g

Re: AW: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark V2 - Results for Sesame, Virtuoso, Jena TDB, D2R Server, and MySQL

2008-09-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Chris Bizer wrote: Hi Kingsley and Paul, Yes, I completely agree with you that different storage solutions fit different use cases and that one of the main strengths of the RDF data model is its flexibility and the possibility to mix different schemata. Nevertheless, it think it is useful to g

Re: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Damian Steer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kingsley Idehen wrote: | I am exploring your service. | | Please clarify this: | http://openguid.net/search?keyword=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FIBM | | | The demo asked me to input an Open GUID (a URI) re. the "Fin

Re: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread Damian Steer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kingsley Idehen wrote: | I am exploring your service. | | Please clarify this: | http://openguid.net/search?keyword=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FIBM | | | The demo asked me to input an Open GUID (a URI) re. the "Find" feature. Do you mean

Re: Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Quick intro: my name is Jason Borro, software developer, and I just launched http://openguid.net My hope is to establish an open (community driven) repository of identity for use across the semantic web. I've developed a specification (http://openguid.net/speci

Announcing Open GUID

2008-09-25 Thread jason
Hello, Quick intro: my name is Jason Borro, software developer, and I just launched http://openguid.net My hope is to establish an open (community driven) repository of identity for use across the semantic web. I've developed a specification (http://openguid.net/specification) for linking ontol