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Graham Perrin

SemanticWeb - Putting Wikipedia to Work for the Semantic Web - 0 views

  • services such as del.i.cious, Twitter, and Facebook
    • Graham Perrin
       
      … and Diigo (I hope)
  • Semantic tags are in, free text tags are out.
  • August 4, 2009
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  • Semantic tags will be a core building block of the next-generation web
  • leveraging the popular Wikipedia as a vast source of a universal controlled vocabulary
  • Wikipedia can serve as a great controlled vocabulary for tags
  • Every concept is unique, has a unique URI,
  • well-defined.
  • DBpedia did a very good job of extracting the structure or semi-structure
  • and expressing it in RDF
  • or a machine readable way.
  • Faviki helps users remove the ambiguity otherwise surrounding free text tags’ meaning.
  • You can use some concrete concepts as tags
  • yourself as the author as a tag
  • specific organizations or companies or people or specific ideas as tags
  • DBpedia’s linking between the various language versions of Wikipedia
  • users tag in 14 different languages
  • English as the universal reference
  • by opening the data, because that’s the idea of the semantic web, to make the data open and connect easily to various sources
  • last month, Faviki added the ability for users to use their own keywords or tags in a freeform way
  • and map them to semantic tags
  • connecting tagging with searching to accomplish this.
  • the new release lets users create new tags outside of Wikipedia, using Google returns from the whole world of web pages
  • users collaborate on which URLs are the best candidates for new concepts.
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Smart.
  • URL tags are not so clear as dbpedia
  • a bit more messy
  • a bit more dynamic,
  • but the idea was to make it semi-automatic. People make them and disambiguate them while adding tags
  • some kind of compromise.
  • Next steps for Faviki are around connecting with other services such as del.i.cious, Twitter, and Facebook, to make it easier for users to try it out.
  • Some longer-term plans would be to publish data from Faviki in linked data, to connect to the rest of inked data,
  • making that data queryable to developers via SPARQL.
  • Common Tag
  • as much a platform as an application
  • mappings between free tags’ association and some uniquely identified concepts will be very important
    • Graham Perrin
       
      I agree.
  • that kind of data will be interesting to developers.
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    Recommended reading for anyone interested in tagging, semantic tagging or the semantic web.
Graham Perrin

Zigtag - 5 views

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    "Social tagging services like Faviki and Zigtag also allow end users to tag content using the Common Tag format." - http://www.diigo.com/06cbz
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    Zigtag's semantic tags allow you to tags with concepts rather than tags. This allows you to tag something in different ways (e.g. New York, newyork, NYC), and have it all mean the same thing. Search using the terms you want, e.g. find pages about New York City using NY, "New York", or even "Big Apple" - any of these will find every page about New York City. Semantic tagging means that Zigtag understands synonyms - we understand that "Big Apple" is the same thing as "New York". Semantic tagging means that everybody is tagging with the same terms that have meaning, which makes it easier for everybody to find what everyone else has tagged.
Graham Perrin

New release: Faviki makes semantic tagging (almost) as easy as classic « Favi... - 0 views

  • Faviki makes semantic tagging (almost) as easy as classic
  • July 2, 2009
  • custom names for tags
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  • better control over tagging
  • OpenID
  • Save API
  • defining new tags
  • several new features
  • mainly to facilitate the use of common tags
  • overcome Wikipedia’s limitations as a controlled vocabulary for semantic tags
  • common, “semantic” tags are unique, well-defined concepts
  • Is it possible to make semantic tags as flexible as classic ones? Can humans accept and love the format intended for machines?
  • Enhanced tagging interface
  • added in free form, resembling classic tagging
  • possible to use custom names for tags
  • If Faviki doesn’t understand a tag provided by a user, it will ask her to disambiguate it. It will then remember her choice
  • Faviki “learns” about user’s name of the tag
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Superb.
  • custom names for tags can also be modified explicitly on the Tag page.
  • Defining new tags
  • added the same way as Wikipedia tags. The difference is that, this time, Google search is not restricted to Wikipedia’s domain
  • only a few of the top results are allowed to be selected
  • users collaboratively create new tags
  • Users collaboratively decide the best URLs for a concept
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Title, URL, a little text and a thumbnail, with sources. Compare the two. Answer yes or no. Perfect!
  • Save/Edit API
  • a simple API that provides a way to save and edit bookmarks from other applications.
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Hurrah! I'd love to have this work with Diigo API for bookmarks…
  • OpenID support
  • uses RPX
  • Other features/improvements
  • Smarter autocomplete list
  • Converting tags
  • Spam control
  • Export/backup bookmarks
  • Tag description tooltip
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    @ Diigo Let's make best use of the Faviki Save/Edit API.
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    The bookmarklet for Faviki is compelling.
Diego Morelli

Semantic Web Search Engine: the SWSE Mission Statement - 7 views

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    "Although the Semantic Web (SW) is still very much in its infancy, there is already a lot of data out there which conforms to the proposed SW standards (e.g. RDF and OWL). Small vertical vocabularies and ontologies have emerged, and the community of people using these is growing daily.... "
Jeff Johnson

The Semantic Web in Education - 0 views

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    The mantra of the information age has been "The more information the better!" But what happens when we search the web and get so much information that we can't sort through it, let alone evaluate it? Enter the semantic web, or Web 3.0. Among other things, the semantic web makes information more meaningful to people by making it more understandable to machines.
Graham Perrin

Faviki - Social bookmarking tool using smart semantic Wikipedia (DBpedia) tags - 1 views

  • Faviki uses semantic tags - references to unique concepts that have their own URLs
  • Thanks to Zemanta suggestions, you can add semantic tags with one click
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  • Tag in your language
  • Common tag
  • not limited to English
  • 14 different languages
  • tags from DBpedia
  • All popular world languages
  • Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian...
  • English  Deutsch  Español  Suomi  Français Italiano  ??? Nederlands  Norsk (bokmål)  Polski  Português  ???????  Svenska  ??
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    "Social tagging services like Faviki and Zigtag also allow end users to tag content using the Common Tag format." - http://www.diigo.com/06cbz
Graham Perrin

About AJAW and the Tabulator - 0 views

  • one possible form of a semantic web browser
  • bugs on other platforms
  • make RDF access easy
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  • demonstrate the use of Web architecture and Semantic web architecture
  • throw up problems
  • for the W3C TAG
  • best practices documents
  • find problems in general implementations or usage
  • find and design new breadcrumb protocols
  • conventions by which pointers are left and followed
  • make classes of problem solvable
  • Other browsers have tended to focus on a document at a time, or work by amassing a large static database of RDF
  • This browser works in a web of documents
  • much semantic web data is isolated from other webs of data,
  • links across systems. This browser is designed to use these links
Jeff Johnson

Understanding the New Web Era - Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent "Web 3.0" concept, 2) the relatively new kid on the structured Web block, Linked Data, and 3) the long-running saga that is the Semantic Web. Greg's series is probably the best explanation I've read all year about the way these trends are converging.
Diego Morelli

Linked Data & the BBC Music Platform Relaunch - 0 views

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    The new BBC web platform for music is online, offering some kind of mash-up presentations of the artists that make use of semantic resources.
LUCIAN DUMA

#edtech20 curation , semantic project in XXI Century Education has a blog - 0 views

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    #edtech20 curation , semantic project in XXI Century Education has a blog where I will post daily best edtools in XXI Century Education
Diego Morelli

Discovery Search Engine For Browsers: Juice - 0 views

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    Juice is a plug-in for Firefox browsers, which lets you grab text, image or video, providing you with context-relevant information, aiming to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services.
Michael Marlatt

Future of the Web Debate: Needs Your Votes! - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

  • Top Questions A representative from Rensselaer told us that "right now we have about 25 questions running the gamut from internet privacy to how the web can solve the global hunger crisis." He mentioned that "there are some really good questions that go beyond the obvious - for example, a question about crossing language barriers as Internet access expands in the developing world." The most popular topic "by far" is the semantic web, but the equal most popular question overall is about net neutrality. Here are the top questions over the last 30 days, at time of writing: Semantic Web a dream? Is net neutrality essential for democracy? Can you imagine the future of the world (wide Web) without the Semantic Web? What would such a world (wide Web) look like? Muttilingual Internet--Fracturing or Blossoming? What controls should be in place on the Web, if any? How do we make sense of the proliferation of data from the ever growing number of User's social activity feeds? Can the web help us solve the world hunger problem? How can we make ourselves less vulnerable to "web failure"?
Thieme Hennis

Freebase - A wealth of free data - 0 views

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    a semantic web data base. looks like the aquabrowser.
Graham Perrin

Zemanta Launches Public Semantic API « Faviki Blog - 1 views

Graham Perrin

Everything You Wanted to Know About Semantic Technology, But Were Afraid to Ask (at Sem... - 0 views

Graham Perrin

Sindice - The semantic web index - 0 views

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  • Search the Semantic Web
Graham Perrin

Mindswap - 19 views

  • Mindswap
  • Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab Semantic Web Agents Project
  • The MINDSWAP Group
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  • Semantic Web Research Group
  • working with Semantic Web technology
  • inside the MIND LAB at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION IN XXI CENTURY: Gr8 tools and appl... - 0 views

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    BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION IN XXI CENTURY: Gr8 tools and applications to make heard your visual presence around the semantic web #edtech20 ; http://about.me/web20education ; http://twitter.com/#!/web20education
Dr. Sorin Adam Matei

Improvise - 0 views

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    Exploratory visualization based on multiple coordinated views is a rapidly growing area of information visualization. Ideally, users would be able to explore their data by switching freely between building and browsing in a flexible, integrated, interactive graphical environment that requires little or no programming skill to use. However, the possibilities for displaying data across multiple views depends on the flexibility of coordination, the expressiveness of graphical encoding, and the ability of users to comprehend the structure of their visualizations as they work. As a result, exploration has been limited in practice to a small fraction of useful visualizations. Improvise is a fully-implemented Java software architecture and user interface that enables users to build and browse highly-coordinated visualizations interactively. By coupling a shared-object coordination model with a declarative visual query language, users gain precise control over how navigation and selection affects the appearance of data across multiple views, using a potentially infinite number of variations on well-known coordination patterns such as synchronized scrolling, overview+detail, brushing, drill-down, and semantic zoom. Improvise has been used to build numerous visualizations for exploring information including election results, particle trajectories, network loads, music collections, the chemical elements, and even the dynamic coordination structure of its own visualizations in situ. This last technique-integrated metavisualization-is unique to Improvise.
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