Analyzing the success of LOD (was: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources)

2009-03-02 Thread Matthias Samwald
Andraz: That the bubbles continue to grown is however a sociological interesting phenomen :-) And a good sign that something has gone right :) Giovanni: Maybe :-) but people do things for many other reason that they're right. I think the LOD project is a great success. It is a very lively

SSSW09: 7th Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web: Registration is now Open

2009-03-02 Thread Mathieu d'Aquin
*** REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN *** THE SEVENTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW-2009) 5-11 July, 2009 Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. http://sssw09.org INTRODUCTION We are pleased to announce the seventh European Summer School on Ontological

Re: Analyzing the success of LOD

2009-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Matthias Samwald wrote: Andraz: That the bubbles continue to grown is however a sociological interesting phenomen :-) And a good sign that something has gone right :) Giovanni: Maybe :-) but people do things for many other reason that they're right. I think the LOD project is a great

Re: Analyzing the success of LOD

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Schwabe
On 02/03/2009 10:55, Kingsley Idehen wrote: ... De-referencable URIs, Negotable Representation of Resource Descriptions, and other elements of the Linked Data Web's FORCE as are simply there to be tapped by current/next generation of innovators on the Web and/or across the Enterprise en route

Re: Analyzing the success of LOD

2009-03-02 Thread Dan Brickley
On 2/3/09 15:23, Daniel Schwabe wrote: On 02/03/2009 10:55, Kingsley Idehen wrote: ... De-referencable URIs, Negotable Representation of Resource Descriptions, and other elements of the Linked Data Web's FORCE as are simply there to be tapped by current/next generation of innovators on the Web

Re: Analyzing the success of LOD

2009-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Dan Brickley wrote: On 2/3/09 15:23, Daniel Schwabe wrote: On 02/03/2009 10:55, Kingsley Idehen wrote: ... De-referencable URIs, Negotable Representation of Resource Descriptions, and other elements of the Linked Data Web's FORCE as are simply there to be tapped by current/next generation of

Re: Analyzing the success of LOD

2009-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Daniel Schwabe wrote: On 02/03/2009 10:55, Kingsley Idehen wrote: ... De-referencable URIs, Negotable Representation of Resource Descriptions, and other elements of the Linked Data Web's FORCE as are simply there to be tapped by current/next generation of innovators on the Web and/or across

ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released.

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Bizer
Hi all, we are happy to announce the initial public release of Silk, a link discovery framework for the Web of Data. The Web of Data is built upon two simple ideas: Employ the RDF data model to publish structured data on the Web and to set explicit RDF links between entities within

Re: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources

2009-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Andraz Tori wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 01:54 +0100, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: Hi Andreaz :-) I don't see the difference between the LOD model and the data (including links) itself. At least to us at Zemanta it is immensely helpful to have a lot of

Re: ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released.

2009-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Chris Bizer wrote: Hi all, we are happy to announce the initial public release of Silk, a link discovery framework for the Web of Data. The Web of Data is built upon two simple ideas: Employ the RDF data model to publish structured data on the Web and to set explicit RDF links between

AW: ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released.

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Bizer
Hi Stephane, I would say: Silk is about discovering data links (finding out that two data sources talk about the same real world entity, or that there is a specific other semantic relation between entities in different data sources). VoiD is about describing (providing meta-information

Re: AW: ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released.

2009-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Chris Bizer wrote: Hi Stephane, I would say: Silk is about discovering data links (finding out that two data sources talk about the same real world entity, or that there is a specific other semantic relation between entities in different data sources). VoiD is about describing (providing

Freebase Bubble Linked Data Cloud

2009-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Anja / Chris, Has a Freebase bubble been added to the LOD cloud diagram? Ted: Also note re. the cloud variant you produced. In both cases DBpedia links to Freebase. Even if Freebase doesn't explicitly link back to DBpedia there is a permanent indirect path via Wikipedia homapage URLs. --