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28 Mar 09

Semantic Intelligence | Web 2.0 Journal

  • There's real business value in incorporating semantic intelligence with business intelligence. Including unstructured data provides a more complete corporate picture. Semantic intelligence extracts knowledge from these sources and when combined with BI, businesses receive knowledge from structured and unstructured modalities, which will eventually be a requirement as we move into the next phase of the Web.
11 Aug 08

Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality « Alex Iskold Technology Blog

  • Semantic search is an upcoming technology that has set the expectations way too high. We have all been misled into thinking that these technologies are here to dethrone Google by delivering better search results. Neither of those things are true. What is true, however is that semantic search is going to be big and it is going to help us answer questions that we simply cannot answer today - complex, inferencing queries asked over the entire web as if it was a database.
  • In order for these semantic search technologies to make a dent in the market, they need

    to clean up their messaging and most importantly, their user interface. Presenting a search box is both misleading and detrimental, as people associate it with the simplistic questions that Google solves without any problems. To really showcase semantic search, these companies need to come up

    with innovative UIs that will help users to understand the power that is being put at their fingers.
25 Jul 08

W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web

  • The mission
    of the Uncertainty Reasoning
    for the World Wide Web (URW3) Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to better define
    the challenge of
    reasoning with and representing uncertain information available through
    the
    World Wide Web and related WWW technologies.

PR-OWL Home

  • PR-OWL is an open research work aimed to extend the OWLGo to the OWL Features Webpage (external website). ontology Web language so it can represent probabilistic ontologies. In other words, it is a probabilistic extension to OWL that provides a framework for authoring probabilistic ontologies and is based on the Bayesian first-order logic called Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks (MEBN).
18 Apr 08

302 Semantic Web Videos and Podcasts! - Blog - Semantic Focus

  • A lot of you emailed me asking where to find more videos, so I'm delivering the goods. I've expanded the previous list from a paltry 17 to a remarkable 302, and I've included podcasts this time! There were so many videos I had to break them up into different categories for easier skimming. There are no duplicates, however I did place some videos into more than one category when I felt it was appropriate. This list is monstrous, enjoy.
26 Mar 08

DataPortability, Microsoft’s Contacts API and OpenSocial.org at Cloudlands

  • For users to have true data portability, there needs to be some consensus on both the APIs and the formats needed to transfer / represent this portable data. It may be that a number of APIs and formats are required for different scenarios. The Semantic Web is an ideal means for representing the data to be ported from social websites, in that is well suited (using vocabularies like SIOC and FOAF) to represent how people and all kinds of objects on these sites are connected together (documents, discussions, meetups, places, interests, media files - whatever). Of course other data formats may be used, but most importantly, it would be a waste of time to come up with a bunch of new formats for representing the data that needs to be portable, because a lot of work has been done on how to best provide interoperable, reusable and linked data through efforts like the Semantic Web, AtomPub and the microformats community.

The Year Of Microformats - Yahoo! To Search The Semantic Web

  • Up until today only a few technologies supported certain standards, the Operator extension for Firefox supports microformats, as will Firefox 3 when it is released, but none of these are big enough or important enough for the mainstream. Adding semantics to a website is a lot of hard work if no-one is around to use it.
  • This is why Yahoo!’s announcement is so big. Now there are machines reading that data and using it and enriching the web with it, do you, as a developer or site owner, want to miss out on that? Yahoo!’s search is to use microformats initially, to improve their understanding of the data to return more relevant results (and, from the looks of their example with LinkedIn add more detail to their search results). So, will other search engines, I’m looking at Google and Microsoft here, want to miss out on the wealth of data that they aren’t collecting and Yahoo! is?
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Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

  • What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.
  • Yahoo’s support for semantic web standards like RDF and microformats is exactly the incentive websites need to adopt them. Instead of semantic silos scattered across the Web (think Twine), Yahoo will be pulling all the semantic information together when available, as a search engine should. Until now, there were few applications that demanded properly structured data from third parties. That changes today.

Microformats gain Yahoo’s support: New opps for e-publishers—and the P side, too

Yahoo to Begin Indexing Microformats [SearchEngineWatch]

  • Search Monkey will be the first use of structured data by Yahoo, but they could potentially be used to affect other parts of the search results or ranking algorithms in the future, according to Kumar. Yahoo will provide more details at an upcoming developer conference it's planning in the coming weeks.

Concerns Over Yahoo Search's New Microformats Support For Open Search

  • All very wonderful, right? Well, maybe not - as some SEOs and webmasters say. Their main concern is that by providing such a structured format of their content - content scrapers will need very little skill in stealing their content and repurposing it in a useful manner. SEOs and webmasters don't mind Yahoo getting this data from them, but they know that leaving this easy to use and structured format open to Yahoo will also give anyone else access to their data. Same issue with XML but this is even more fine tuned data, because webmasters can detail minute details about their content

Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

  • A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards.
  • By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers. For example, by marking up its profile pages with microformats, LinkedIn can allow Yahoo! Search and others to understand the semantic content and the relationships of the many components of its site. With a richer understanding of LinkedIn's structured data included in our index, we will be able to present users with more compelling and useful search results for their site. The benefit to LinkedIn is, of course, increased traffic quality and quantity from sites like Yahoo! Search that utilize its structured data.
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10 Mar 08

People as Data Connectors

  • This is reason why Kingsley and a bunch of other people like to call the "Semantic Web" the "Linked Data Web".  Potayto-potato, it's all the same to me.  It’s cool, though.  It lets an application traverse the social graph to do its thing instead of being confined to its own network.  It allows an application on one network to access Person C’s data, on another network, by going from Person A to Person B to Person C, and then to their data.
05 Feb 08

Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization?

  • "Web 1.0: Centralized Them. Web 2.0: Distributed Us. Web 3.0: Decentralized Me," he wrote. "[Web 3.0 is] about me when I don't want to participate in the world. It's about me when I want to have more control of my environment particularly who I let in. When my attention is stretched who/what do I pay attention to and who do I let pay attention to me. It is more effective communication for me!"
  • What O'Brien was getting at is basically what Kiss was getting at: personalization and recommendation. And that's the promise of the Semantic Web. The easiest way to sell the Semantic Web vision to consumers is to talk about how it can make their lives easier. When machines understand things in human terms, and can apply that knowledge to your attention data, we'll have a web that knows what we want and when we want it.
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01 Feb 08

RIF Working Group - RIF

  • The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group is to produce W3C Recommendations for rules interchange on the semantic web
23 Jan 08

MicroID - Small Decentralized Verifiable Identity

  • MicroID is a lightweight identity layer for the web, invented by Jeremie Miller (creator of Jabber). MicroID enables anyone to claim verifiable ownership over content hosted anywhere on the web (social networking sites, discussion forums, blogs, etc.). MicroID is not an authentication or single-sign-on service, just a straightforward method for identifying content ownership that complements existing technologies such as OpenID and microformats. The technology is radically simple and enables developers to build new and unique meta services with minimal effort. It's already being used by the likes of ClaimID, Last.fm, Ma.gnolia, Wikitravel, and Yedda.
05 Nov 07

» The next big thing: User-contributed metadata | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

  • User-contributed (or generated) metadata is the high value, structured matter that allows ads, and the overall user experience, to be more personalized. From an advertiser perspective, the more precision targeting drives much higher response. From the user perspective, you get advertising content that is more likely to be of interest.
  • As the social Web evolves, privacy and metadata ownership issues will continue to produce friction in the system. You get free and more personalized services in exchange for allowing Facebook, or other any other site that uses your metadata and attention stream as a kind of currency, to use your contributed metadata to target ads, presumably increasing their RPC (revenue per customer).
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