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PUBLIC MARKS from "Xavier Lacot" with tag "semantic web"

2011

Nantes ouverture des données: Accueil

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

DataSF - Liberating City Data

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?

RDFa API

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

2010

How to publish Linked Data on the Web

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

KnowledgeBase - Named Entity Recognition

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

Ontos Semantic Technologies

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

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.

Semantic web user interfaces - Do they have to be ugly?

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.

check.rdfa

A newly published RDFa validator.

dbrec - Intelligent music recommendations for and from the Web of Data

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).

2009

OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview

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 !

Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN

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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 - semantic javascript library

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

tagthe.net - Webservice that tags your resources

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

Tim Berners-Lee speaks on Linked Data (1)

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

Blog Smarter | Zemanta Ltd.

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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.

2008

OpenLink Data Explorer :: Modules pour Firefox

Exposes RDF based Linked Data Sources associated with Web Pages.

We need a tag evolution « Faviki Blog

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The problem with both keywords and tags is that they are just words. But what would happen if, instead of words, we used objects? What if we used unique concepts that would always and everywhere have the same name and would refer to the specific object?

European Semantic Web Conference 2009 - Semantic Web in Use

This track aims to explore the benefits of applying Semantic Web technology in real-life applications and contexts. Will take place end May 2009 During the ESWC2009.

Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages®

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This paper presents an initiative to use RDF in actual projects - as opposed to mere demonstration efforts. The immediate background was the modeling of a large and rather amorphous enterprise architecture (EA).

OwlSight

OwlSight is an OWL ontology browser that runs in any modern web browser; it's developed with Google Web Toolkit and uses Gwt-Ext, as well as OWL-API. OwlSight is the client component and uses Pellet as its OWL reasoner.

SearchMonkey - YDN

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Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites. Yay ! Semantic Web appearing ?

SMOB - Semantic Microblogging Architecture

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SMOB is a distributed / decentralised microblogging system built on RDF and Semantic Web technologies, mainly SIOC and FOAF. Currently, we have simple prototypes of a publishing and an aggregating service, less than 100 lines of PHP code each.

SemanticCamp Paris 1 videos

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I wasn't able top attend the first semantic webcamp in Paris, so these videos are really welcomed ! Thanks David for the link :)