New tools: Sindice Inspector, Full Cache API – all with Online Data Reasoning

2009-10-12 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Full announcement at http://blog.sindice.com/2009/10/12/new-inspector-full-cache-api-all-with-online-data-reasoning/ quotable text: --- We’re happy to release today 2 distinct yet interplaying features in Sindice: The Sindice Inspector and the Sindice Cache API (both including

Re: dbpedia not very visible, nor fun

2009-09-15 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
*Promotion* :-) Accessing dbpedia with sparallax http://sparallax.deri.ie

Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

2009-09-01 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
-unibw.org wrote: Hi Giovanni: Giovanni Tummarello wrote: Hi Martin, all, the sitemap exposed is not a Semantic Sitemap Semantic Sitemap: http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/sitemap.xml but simply gives the location of the dumps. As far as I see, the sitemap at http

Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

2009-09-01 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
-unibw.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:14 AM To: giovanni.tummare...@deri.org Cc: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples Hi Giovanni: Giovanni Tummarello wrote: Hi Martin, all

Re: Sig.ma - live views on the web of data

2009-07-27 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
/23 Giovanni Tummarello giovanni.tummare...@deri.org: Dear Web of Data enthusiasts, we are very happy to share with you today the first public version of Sigma,  http://sig.ma ,  a browser, a mashup engine and an API for the web of data. here is blog post with screencast, sample sigma embedded

ANN: Sparallax! - Browse sets of things together (now those on your SPARQL endpoint)

2009-07-27 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Dear Semi Structured Data Enthusiasts, we are today pleased to announce version 1 of Sparallax Sparallax is an adaptation of the  FreeBase Parallax to use SPARQL endpoints. Thanks to a proxy and query translation modules (SPARQL to MQL and results translated back), Sparallax is minimally

Re: ANN: Sparallax! - Browse sets of things together (now those on your SPARQL endpoint)

2009-07-27 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Kingsely, we are a bit unsure about your complaint, please clarify, do you mean to say that sparallax give that user agent when trying to connect to an external sparql endpoint? we tried and got the user agent of the browser. Not sure how it is important to use a user agent instead of

Sig.ma - live views on the web of data

2009-07-22 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Dear Web of Data enthusiasts, we are very happy to share with you today the first public version of Sigma, http://sig.ma , a browser, a mashup engine and an API for the web of data. here is blog post with screencast, sample sigma embedded mashup etc.

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
I answer to Toby just becouse its handy to do so but i just want to make a general statement. Toby is stating the classical view, clean knowledge representation, 0% dealing with ambiguity. Hugh is hinting at is that the complexity of the clean solution is overwhelming since it is

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

2009-06-25 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
/, Giovanni Tummarello http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/giovanni_tummarello/, Stefan Decker http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/stefan_decker/ *Context Dependent Reasoning for Semantic Documents in Sindice.* In *Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

2009-06-23 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Just a remark about what we're doing in Sindice, for all who want to be indexed properly by us. we recursively dereference the properties that are used thus trying to obtain a closure over the description of the properties that are used. We also consider OWL imports. When the recursive fetching

Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-23 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Just RDFa and live happy IMO. A machine doesnt care about the messy part of the markup. The advantage of a single URL to access it too much to be a match for anything. It is a fact that people like us like to look at RDF directly as well. But it should be a problem to use a firefox plugin to

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

2009-06-23 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Martin, partially you could solve the problem yourself by putting the owl:import triples in your ontology fragments e.g. the fragment, when served, says owl import so that you're sure the ontology is used as a whole.. would this do it? :-) fixing the problem in a single location might be so much

Re: Common Tag - semantic tagging convention

2009-06-12 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Toby Inkstert...@g5n.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 01:33 +0200, Andraz Tori wrote: also to note is that there exist proper mappings to other efforts at tagging ontologies: http://commontag.org/mappings The question is though, will Search Monkey, Sindice,

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon and lots of wordnet links to a juggle of plumbing but no juice.  No sign of http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kiwi however Ah. We only look at the first n results from Sindice, and clearly kiwi is a popular name.

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Cool Hugh :-) great ajaxi thing as well. if you dont do this already it might make sense to also add from your page yu say There is currently no a service to enable arbitrary contribution to the contents. If you have significant data you would be prepared to give us, then please conact us at the

Re: BobQL? Boxes of (related) boxes ...

2009-05-31 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Dan, storing (and being able to re-execute) this journey reminds me of the driving inspiration behind DERI Pipes. Pipes have an underlying XML representation language which stores the recipie for processing one or more RDFs. arbitrary operators can select data out of it, returns another RDF

Re: Dereferencing a URI vs querying a SPARQL endpoint

2009-05-21 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi, there isnt a single answer unfortunately. Lets take symetric concise bound descriptions (SCBD) which basically means from the uri you'll get triples around it recursively until you find other URIs. (so when you find a blank node you keep on going). This seems a pretty good way to provide

Re: bootstrapping decentralized sparql

2009-05-17 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
, May 17, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Peter Ansell ansell.pe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/17 Giovanni Tummarello g.tummare...@gmail.com: for graphs which use a (specific) FOAF term.  It's a bit like PingTheSemanticWeb or Sindice, but decentralized based on the ontologies used. [] Isnt this like

Re: Segment RDF on BBC Programmes

2009-05-04 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
RDFa will not generally negate the essential separation of Name (via URI.URN-URL) and Address (via URI.URL) since Linked Data oriented triples will still contain de-referencable URIs :-) if you can put the RDF and the human legible HTML version in the same address there is absolutely no

Re: Keeping crawlers up-to-date

2009-04-28 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi YVes, nothing can beat having a semantic sitemap [1]. Basically you say that you change 1nce a day and give a link to the dump. Done :-) if you put it i am ready to show in sindice the information updated every day, and with no other cost for you than a single dump download. also the sitemap

Re: Keeping crawlers up-to-date

2009-04-28 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Forced to mention RDFSync then (ISWC 2007) Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, Reto Bachmann-Gmür, Orri Erling RDFSync: efficient remote synchronization of RDF models http://semanticweb.deit.univpm.it/papers/RDFSyncISWC2007.pdf there was an implementation but it was just a proof

Re: LDOW2009 Workshop now publishing Linked Data (was Re: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009) workshop papers online.)

2009-03-19 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
The only reason to mint resolvable URIs is to allow fetching of a description i'd say that minting in other's people spaces is really calling for troubles and should be discouraged? one should, could, possibly put sameas if some URI exists somewhere else. honestly? i dont even see the reasonw hy

Re: LDOW2009 Workshop now publishing Linked Data (was Re: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009) workshop papers online.)

2009-03-19 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
if its one source, then fine, the source is changed and its indexed again if it has been copied.. everybody loses, i'd say :-) Yes, Data Access by Reference is about not having to interact with Data by Value which requires localization of data in order to actually use the values :-) ..

Re: LDOW2009 Workshop now publishing Linked Data (was Re: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009) workshop papers online.)

2009-03-19 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
The point was this: _if_ you would like your data to be incorporated into the dogfood site, then it should have dogfood namespace URIs, otherwise we cannot serve it. We hope to offer people who want to contribute to the site what about creating local, arbitrary URIs, linked with sameas to the

Re: Parsing Freebase RDF

2009-03-14 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Jamie, i see that your RDF per URI is more expressive than the usual instead of just giving triples out of (or into) the subject of the page you also give the description of other notable entities inside for example in the blade runner movie you give the full description of all the film

ann: DERI Pipes 0.7 + dbpedia/opencalais example

2009-03-10 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
=== New Features [2009-03-04] Added sesame xpath functions library including concat, lowercase and uppercase Example query using fn:concat follows: PREFIX fn: http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions# select ?name where {?s ?p ?name . FILTER ( ?name=fn:concat('Giovanni ','Tummarello

Re: Finding SPAQL endpoints?

2009-03-09 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
I know what's missing :-): any a real application that need to do the automatic discovery etc and that someone would really want to use, i.e. not another academic demonstrator. If there was one such application people would put in the last 10 minutes of work. People do at this point go to the

Re: Finding SPAQL endpoints?

2009-03-07 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi I could query the site for its sitemap extension (would it always be home url/sitemap.xml? doesn't seem so...), as Giovanni suggests, and see if I get a result; in the affirmative case, I have to parse it and look for the sc:sparqlEndpointLocation element. Sitemaps are either at

Re: Finding SPAQL endpoints?

2009-03-06 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Daniel, the Semantic Sitemap Extention does that well. (also has the imporant task to tell the world that dbpedia is not 6 million RDF model but a single one which is split on the fly) http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/ http://dbpedia.org/sitemap.xml Giovanni On Fri, Mar 6, 2009

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

2009-03-01 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
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 those links done. It brings down the cost of doing really innovative stuff to us and I believe to many others too. We

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

2009-02-28 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
congrats and kudos to all those who've made this happen. I think the cloud diagrams are proving a very compelling visual for people who don't care about nerdy detail but understand the idea of interlinked datasets. Yes they're great for handwaving if the audience has never seen it, otherwise

Fwd: DERI Pipes 0.6.5 available

2009-02-26 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Forwarding from Robert Fuller, main guy now the primary contac tfor support on the project. We have moved broken pipes away, sorry for the problems in the previous release. Giovanni -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Fuller [DERI] robert.ful...@deri.org Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Re: Update re. Virtuoso 6.0 Cluster Edition with LOD Cloud Hosting

2009-02-19 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Wow. lots of stuff.. how many triples in total then? How many machines and of which kind? very interested Giovanni On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: All, We now have part 1 of the Virtuoso 6.0 Cluster Edition with LOD hosting that includes: 1.

ANN: DERI Pipes 0.6

2009-02-14 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
/?group_id=227929 WWW 2009 Research Track paper: Danh Le Phuoc, Axel Polleres, Christian Morbidoni, and Manfred Hauswirth, Giovanni Tummarello. Rapid semantic web mashup development through semantic web pipes. In Proceedings of the 18th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain, April 2009

Re: [ANN] DBpedia Lookup

2009-02-10 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
I hope that DBpedia Lookup is useful for you, and I'd appreciate any feedback. URI lookup as well as other searches are important, so to facilitate other LOD dataset providers to also do this i'd suggest they simply wrap around Sindice and take the first results, e.g.

Re: Can we lower the LD entry cost please (part 1)?

2009-02-07 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Yves, just on the side, yes there is not much dbtune in sindice. just a few http://sindice.com/search?q=dbtuneqt=term if you have an RDF dump of the site or of part of it and you express it in a semantic sitemap you would be indexed full in very short time . Otherwise we should have the ne

Re: Exercise: LOD questions (R)†was ( Do we need another list(s)? )

2008-12-06 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
- My company has recently released an API for access to structured (database) data about 55 million companies and 35 million people. Do you think I should release this in an LOD format? How would my customers benefit. could be tricky usually one such api involves looking up and finind

Re: Do we need another list(s)? Was other things

2008-12-05 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
i agree on all your comments and believe me by talking to actual web 2.0 people you're way ahead. i'll try to answer some of your questions I then asked if they new the value of Linked Data. The answer I got was well, i would think that my site would be easier to find right? i mean, i would

Re: Some FOAF services

2008-11-30 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Misha, would you have a comparison between this and the google social graph api? I understand that also follows FOAF links (e.g. see livejournal etc). I guess they're less specialized however? Giovanni On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Am

Re: linked data mashups

2008-11-24 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
rdfs:seeAlso links, and by querying the Sindice search engine. The library Cool this is the original number 1 task sindice was conceived to do, that is provide the inverse of the seeAlso, the inverse links for automatic mashups. Happy to be of use :-) (now all that people have to di is reuse

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-21 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Overall, that's about 17 billion. IMO considering myspace 12 billion triples as part of LOD, is quite a stretch (same with other wrappers) unless they are provided by the entity itself (E.g. i WOULD count in livejournal foaf file on the other hand, ok they're not linked but they're not less

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-20 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
dbtune.org provides at least 14 billion triples (see http://blog.dbtune.org/post/2008/04/02/DBTune-is-providing-131-billion-triples + the Musicbrainz D2R server at http://dbtune.org/musicbrainz/, so I guess you'd need a pretty big phone to aggregate all that :-) .. thus the problem with

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-19 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Jim, honestly, a count job we launched some time ago gave us a something less than a billion on Sindice actually (But we currently dont index uniprot which is a big one). We'll be publishng live stats soon. But what about wrappers (e.g. flickr wrappers of keyword searches), that's a

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-19 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi when people liked to draw maps of the WWW, and these really quickly disappeared when it got big. I hope that happens to the Data Web, too. Hopefully soon. But my current estimate is that the Data Web is probably This has happened already, for the Data Web as in Microformat world and

Re: Linked data at Freebase

2008-10-29 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Should be possible, same way as google indexes the other pages. If they get a a semantic sitemap online it would be much better, will ask for it. Giovanni On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Andreas Langegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ain't that funny? After Alan's talk last week at WOD-PD we

Re: Oh No. The Global Mind does not know Madonna divorced Guy Ritchie!

2008-10-19 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Just out of the RDF playground for a second, http://www.evri.com/mainline-ui/jsp/index.jsf seems to know.. Madonna divorce Guy Ritchie it will give you 5 sources on the web that say that. (last 3 days..) Madonna * Guy Ritchie returns many more things (someof which are noisy etc..) but

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

Re: How do you deprecate URIs? Re: OWL-DL and linked data

2008-07-05 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
://sws.geonames.org/2950157/ Actually what we need is a namespace and vocabulary for all those flavors of URI similarity and equivalence to be used on the Web, diffferent from OWL and RDFS namespace. Bernard Giovanni Tummarello a écrit : http:... or something equivalent, not a reference http

Re: Semantic Web Search

2008-06-22 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Hugh, as far as Sindice is concerned,please just post your message on http://forum.sindice.com and we'll be able to follow your data case closely. as far as large datasets are concerned, the indexing is currently manual that is we must personally know of the dataset (e.g. from a post in the

Re: The king is dressed in void

2008-06-13 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
need to dig our hole deeper by showing yet more reinventing. Giovanni On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Peter Ansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/13 Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED]: XML is a step forward. The thing started in RDF with something called semantic crawling ontology (sorry

Re: The king is dressed in void

2008-06-12 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
as a void:example_file) The rest of the descriptions seem to be allowed for by current vocabularies such as foaf and dc so the actual specification will be very highly modular and hence easy to implement and agree on IMO. Cheers, Peter 2008/6/12 Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wasnt RDF

Re: The king is dressed in void

2008-06-12 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giovanni Tummarello Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:08 AM To: Hausenblas, Michael Cc: public-lod@w3.org; Semantic Web Subject: The king is dressed in void Wasnt RDF all aabout being self describing? if i say giovanni

Re: The king is dressed in void

2008-06-12 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Hi Michael, let me clarify that it wasnt really meant to be to: michael you were just there when i replied to the general idea and not you in particular :-) step after semantic sitemaps (it actually is thought to extend it in terms of using the sc:datasetURI as the entry point, see also

Re: The king is dressed in void

2008-06-12 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
the slicing and sparql graph parts to describe a data set? Cheers, Peter 2008/6/13 Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All of your described functionalities are a subset of what semantic sitemaps are for [1]. Specs aside, the paper [2] might be of interest to some is that we went to some

Re: Using Linking Open Data datasets

2008-05-29 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
endpoints/sites? Cheers, Peter 2008/5/30 Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A validator in sindice is possible and has been discussed but the list of things to do is now quite scary :-) poor man validator: plese post us about yout sitemap here http://forum.sindice.com/index.php . Free report

Re: BOF meeting on Semantic Web Search Engines at WWW 2008

2008-04-17 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
with us, as we are planning to use skype or similar things to allow distant participations. Cheers, Mathieu d'Aquin (Watson) Giovanni Tummarello (Sindice) [1] http://tinyurl.com/3m7ufj (note that the page is editable if you want to add your view

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