Re: Simple Linked Data Publishing For Non Programmers

2012-07-26 Thread Jürgen Jakobitsch
hi, +1 (actually +a couple more) for your initiatives. i think, however that there's one important point missing : why [1], why should one do something like that this [2] shows quite well, why i'm using linked data. i'm just a one man company, but i'm - NOT going to have multiple lists of my

Re: Simple Linked Data Publishing For Non Programmers

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Kingsley, On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 05:27:21PM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Like I expected, she lost you in the second paragraph. Okay, and what exactly was that? Everything after What is Linked Data?. Terms like references, structured data, EAV. You may have lost sense of your

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Pablo N. Mendes
Would the offer of data and API integration services count? There is linked data without Linked Data: Factual Places combines data on 58 million local businesses and points of interest with rich APIs to bring context to every point worldwide. http://www.factual.com/solutions/web-and-mobile-apps

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Pablo, nobody doubts that links are useful and part of a plethora of small and big databases and APIs. What I am particularly interested in is: Why should a small/medium sized player switch from -using URLs of pages about things to using URIs that denote things -APIs and RDBs to

Re: Simple Linked Data Publishing For Non Programmers

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 4:29 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Kingsley, On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 05:27:21PM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Like I expected, she lost you in the second paragraph. Okay, and what exactly was that? Everything after What is Linked Data?. Terms like references, structured

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 6:18 AM, Pablo N. Mendes wrote: Would the offer of data and API integration services count? There is linked data without Linked Data: Factual Places combines data on 58 million local businesses and points of interest with rich APIs to bring context to every point worldwide.

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 6:50 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Pablo, nobody doubts that links are useful and part of a plethora of small and big databases and APIs. What I am particularly interested in is: Why should a small/medium sized player switch from -using URLs of pages about things to using

Re: Simple Linked Data Publishing For Non Programmers

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Kingsley, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 07:34:01AM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: My answer: when you publish a document on the Web you don't necessarily do so with a single search engine / document indexer in mind. Thats the theory. In practise, you have Google in mind. As I said it isn't

Re: Simple Linked Data Publishing For Non Programmers

2012-07-26 Thread Adrian Walker
Hi Kingsley, You wrote *Yes, but that's *[need for caching, replication] *another topic for a different debate since SPARQL isn't mandatory for Linked Data Publishing. Its just a *very* powerful declarative query language for exploiting Webby Linked Data* Maybe I'm missing something here,

Re: Linked Data Demand Discussion Culture on this List, WAS: Introducing Semgel, a semantic database app for gathering analyzing data from websites

2012-07-26 Thread Juan Sequeda
However, just to balance the picture slightly ... There are *some* clear, well documented examples of semweb/RDF/LD delivering business value through data integration. The most famous of these being probably: Garlik (now Experian), Amdocs and arguably the BBC. In my experience for every

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Juan Sequeda
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.comwrote: On 7/26/12 6:50 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Pablo, nobody doubts that links are useful and part of a plethora of small and big databases and APIs. What I am particularly interested in is: Why should a

Re: Simple Linked Data Publishing For Non Programmers

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 8:30 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Kingsley, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 07:34:01AM -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: My answer: when you publish a document on the Web you don't necessarily do so with a single search engine / document indexer in mind. Thats the theory. In practise,

Re: Simple Linked Data Publishing For Non Programmers

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 9:06 AM, Adrian Walker wrote: Hi Kingsley, You wrote /Yes, but that's /[need for caching, replication] /another topic for a different debate since SPARQL isn't mandatory for Linked Data Publishing. Its just a *very* powerful declarative query language for exploiting Webby

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 10:56 AM, Juan Sequeda wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 7/26/12 6:50 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Pablo, nobody doubts that links are useful and part of a plethora

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Juan Sequeda
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.comwrote: On 7/26/12 10:56 AM, Juan Sequeda wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.comwrote: On 7/26/12 6:50 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Pablo, nobody doubts that links

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 1:30 PM, Juan Sequeda wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 7/26/12 10:56 AM, Juan Sequeda wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Mike Liebhold
On 7/26/12 11:23 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Q: What does Linked Data offer in this context? A: Powerful mechanism for data virtualization that turns a collection of disparate and heterogeneous data sources into a coherent, persistent, and change sensitive mesh of entities and their

Re: Linked Data Business Models?

2012-07-26 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/26/12 2:45 PM, Mike Liebhold wrote: On 7/26/12 11:23 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Q: What does Linked Data offer in this context? A: Powerful mechanism for data virtualization that turns a collection of disparate and heterogeneous data sources into a coherent, persistent, and change

DC-2012 in Malaysia five weeks away

2012-07-26 Thread DCMI Announce
DC-2012 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malasia is a little over five weeks away. Pre-conference includes two full days of tutorials on the Semantic Web starting on 3 September 2012.[1] Led by Sam Oh and Karen Coyle in day-long sessions, the two tutorials promise to take you from simple data to Linked

Deadline Extension till August 4! [CfP] 3rd International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2012) co-located at ISWC2012

2012-07-26 Thread Juan Sequeda
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING DEADLINE EXTENSION Abstract due: July 31 Paper due: August 4 Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2012) http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/cold2012/ co-located with 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, MA, USA The