PUBLIC MARKS with tag "semantic web"

Nantes ouvre ses données, une superbe initiative que la plupart des villes devraient suivre ! Très bonen idée !

Uberblic links data across APIs so that you can build applications using the best data sources on the Web and put your own data into context.

The City of San Francisco too, decided to publish several Datasets. DataSF is a central clearinghouse for datasets published by the City & County of San Francisco. The site allows to find datasets in several ways: general search, tags/keywords, categories, and rating. The goal is to improve access to city data through open machine-readable formats. Anyway, there does not seem to be any SPARQL endpoint or any other semantic expression of the exposed datasets... Maybe in a future iteration?

this document defines an API for extracting structurated information from web pages, using the RDFa formalism.

A step-by-step guide which covers all the required steps before publishing data on the Web in a semantic way

Another Named Entity Recognizer, available as a paid-offer SaaS solution.

OntosMiner uses ontologies to define the areas of interest and linguistic rules of NLP to analyze natural language text. Objects and their relations are automatically realized and annotations to the related text fragments are added.

EasyRdf is a PHP library designed to make it easy to consume and produce RDF. It was designed for use in mixed teams of experienced and inexperienced RDF developers. It is written in Object Oriented PHP.

A presentation which explains how semweb people should work to create more user-friendly tools. There is a common dream about the semantic web : it should help develop omnipotent applications. Instead of this, the author explain that developers should concentrate on creating useful software, using semweb technologies. Meaningful.

A newly published RDFa validator.

Facebook a secoué le monde des technologies en annonçant une série d’innovations majeures qui constituent, prises dans leur ensemble, un mouvement destiné à faire du web tout entier un web social et sémantique.

dbrec is a new kind of recommender system, entirely based on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies, providing recommendations for 39,000 artists from DBpedia (and consequently from Wikipedia) based on the relationships that they hold together, either directly (e.g. having played together) or indirectly (e.g. playing the same genre, sharing a common record label or even being associated in a particular cultural movement).

The W3C published 2 days ago the OWL2 Recommendation, made by 12 documents. A great step further in SW technologies, 5 years after the first OWL Recommendation !

Provided with free-form text, the service identifies places mentioned in text, disambiguates those places, and returns unique identifiers (WOEIDs) for each, as well as information about how many times the place was found in the text, and where in the text it was found. Gorgeous!

jOWL is a jQuery plugin for navigating and visualising OWL-RDFS documents.

tagthe.net is a simple webservice that helps you in tagging textual content on and off the web

Tim Berners-Lee's talk at TED 2009 conference slides, about Linked Data.

Zemanta is a text enrichment tool. Packaged as a firefox extension, it helps adding tags, photos, links to the texts you type in your web browser. It is based on "natural language processing, machine learning and fine tuning", and would take profit out of SemWeb technologies.