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Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-17T05:51:11Z
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Commercializing the Semantic Web
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1363
2008-05-16T22:04:01Z
<p>Unfortunately, I could only spend 4 days at the recent <a href="http://www2008.org/" id="link-id196acf60">WWW2008</a> event in <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Beijing" id="link-id1974fe28">Beijing</a> (I departed the morning following the <a href="http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/" id="link-id1863f858">Linked Data Workshop</a>), so I couldn't take my slot on the "Commercializing the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id18990f90">Semantic Web</a> panel" etc.. Anyway, thanks to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-id0x18f29310">Web</a> I can still inject my points of view in the broad <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> based discourse. Well so I hoped, when I attempted to post a comment to Paul Miller's ZDNet domain hosted <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id180d6750">blog</a> thread titled: <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=132" id="link-id12d206c0">Commercialising the Semantic Web</a>.</p> <p>Unfortunately, the cost of completing ZDNet's unwieldy signup process simply exceeded the benefits of dropping my comments in their particular space :-( Thus, I'll settle for a trackback ping instead.</p> <p>What follows is the cut and paste of my intended comment contributions to Paul's post.</p> <p>Paul,</p> <p> As discussed earlier this week during <a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/05/kingsley-idehen-talks-about-openlink-software-linked-data-and-the-semantic-web.php" id="link-id1332fb48">our podcast session</a>, commercialization of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id17382338">Semantic Web</a> technology shouldn't be a mercurial matter at this stage in the game :-) It's all about looking at how it provides value :-)</p> <p>From the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10d4f4a8">Linked Data</a> angle, the ability to produce, dispatch, and exploit "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Context_%28language_use%29" id="link-id13bed160">Context</a>" across an array of "Perspectives" from a plethora of disparate <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id1731e5f0">data</a> sources on the Web and/or behind corporate firewalls, offers immense commercial value.</p> <p> <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/" id="link-id1975d248">Yahoo's Searchmonkey</a> effort will certainly bring clarity to some of the points I made during the podcast re. the role of URIs as "value consumption tickets" (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id173eb7b0">Data</a> Services are exposed via URIs). There has to be a trigger (in user space) that compels Web users to seek broader, or simply varied, perspectives as a response to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id0x1c7e7f60">data</a> encountered on the Web. Yahoo! is about to put this light on in a big way (imho).</p> <p>The "self annotating" nature of the Web is what ultimately drives the manifestation of the long awaited <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id0xa18a83e8">Semantic Web</a>. I believe I postulated about <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&q=self%20annotation&type=text&output=html" id="link-id173d7458">"Self Annotation & the Semantic Web" in a number of prior posts</a> which, by the way, should be <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&type=text&kwds=self%20annotation&OpenSearch" id="link-id10b12208">DataRSS compatible right now</a> due to Yahoo's support of OpenSearch <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id0x1b8412e8">Data</a> Providers (which this <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id170b8df8">Blog</a> Space has been for eons).</p> <p>Today, have many communities adding strucuture to the Web (via their respective tools of preference) without explicitly realizing what they are contributing. Every RSS/Atom feed, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tag" id="link-id183d5178">Tag</a>, Weblog, Shared Bookmark, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/WikiWord" id="link-id10c5e758">Wikiword</a>, Microformat, Microformat++ (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Embedded_RDF" id="link-id16d8ee40">eRDF</a> or <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/RDFa" id="link-id1059a688">RDFa</a>), <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/GRDDL" id="link-id1090ae10">GRDDL</a> stylesheet, and RDFizer etc.. is a piece of structured <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">data</a>.</p> <p>Finally, the different communities are all finding ways to work together (thank heavens!) and the results are going to be cataclysmic when it all plays out :-)</p> <p>Data, Structure, and Extraction are the keys to the Semantic Life! First you get the Data in a container (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id180e5648">information</a> resource), and then you add Structure to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id103801e0">information</a> resource (RSS, Atom, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Microformats" id="link-id17825e40">microformats</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/RDFa" id="link-id189a8738">RDFa</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Embedded_RDF" id="link-id1933d5c0">eRDF</a>, SIOC, FOAF, etc.), once you have Structure RDFization (i.e. transformation to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id19744878">Linked Data</a>) is a synch thanks to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id180dde30">RDF</a> Middleware (as per <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&type=text&kwds=self%20annotation&OpenSearch" id="link-id16dc3130">earlier RDF middleware posts</a>).</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-16T18:04:03.000-04:00
Commercializing the Semantic Web
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1362
2008-05-16T20:02:45Z
<p>Unfortunately, I could only spend 4 days at the recent <a href="http://www2008.org/" id="link-id196acf60">WWW2008</a> event in <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Beijing" id="link-id1974fe28">Beijing</a> (I departed the morning following the <a href="http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/" id="link-id1863f858">Linked Data Workshop</a>), so I couldn't take my slot on the "Commercializing the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id18990f90">Semantic Web</a> panel" etc.. Anyway, thanks to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> I can still inject my points of view in the broad Web based discourse. Well so I hoped, when I attempted to post a comment to Paul Miller's ZDNet domain hosted <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id180d6750">blog</a> thread titled: <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=132" id="link-id12d206c0">Commercialising the Semantic Web</a>.</p> <p>Unfortunately, the cost of completing ZDNet's unwieldy signup process simply exceeded the benefits of dropping my comments in their particular space :-( Thus, I'll settle for a trackback ping instead.</p> <p>What follows is the cut and paste of my intended comment contributions to Paul's post.</p> <p>Paul,</p> <p> As discussed earlier this week during <a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/05/kingsley-idehen-talks-about-openlink-software-linked-data-and-the-semantic-web.php" id="link-id1332fb48">our podcast session</a>, commercialization of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id17382338">Semantic Web</a> technology shouldn't be a mercurial matter at this stage in the game :-) It's all about looking at how it provides value :-)</p> <p>From the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10d4f4a8">Linked Data</a> angle, the ability to produce, dispatch, and exploit "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Context_%28language_use%29" id="link-id13bed160">Context</a>" across an array of "Perspectives" from a plethora of disparate <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id1731e5f0">data</a> sources on the Web and/or behind corporate firewalls, offers immense commercial value.</p> <p> <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/" id="link-id1975d248">Yahoo's Searchmonkey</a> effort will certainly bring clarity to some of the points I made during the podcast re. the role of URIs as "value consumption tickets" (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id173eb7b0">Data</a> Services are exposed via URIs). There has to be a trigger (in user space) that compels Web users to seek broader, or simply varied, perspectives as a response to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id0x1c7e7f60">data</a> encountered on the Web. Yahoo! is about to put this light on in a big way (imho).</p> <p>The "self annotating" nature of the Web is what ultimately drives the manifestation of the long awaited <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id0xa18a83e8">Semantic Web</a>. I believe I postulated about <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&q=self%20annotation&type=text&output=html" id="link-id173d7458">"Self Annotation & the Semantic Web" in a number of prior posts</a> which, by the way, should be <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&type=text&kwds=self%20annotation&OpenSearch" id="link-id10b12208">DataRSS compatible right now</a> due to Yahoo's support of OpenSearch <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">Data</a> Providers (which this <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id170b8df8">Blog</a> Space has been for eons).</p> <p>Today, have many communities adding strucuture to the Web (via their respective tools of preference) without explicitly realizing what they are contributing. Every RSS/Atom feed, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tag" id="link-id183d5178">Tag</a>, Weblog, Shared Bookmark, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/WikiWord" id="link-id10c5e758">Wikiword</a>, Microformat, Microformat++ (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Embedded_RDF" id="link-id16d8ee40">eRDF</a> or <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/RDFa" id="link-id1059a688">RDFa</a>), <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/GRDDL" id="link-id1090ae10">GRDDL</a> stylesheet, and RDFizer etc.. is a piece of structured data.</p> <p>Finally, the different communities are all finding ways to work together (thank heavens!) and the results are going to be cataclysmic when it all plays out :-)</p> <p>Data, Structure, and Extraction are the keys to the Semantic Life! First you get the Data in a container (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id180e5648">information</a> resource), and then you add Structure to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id103801e0">information</a> resource (RSS, Atom, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Microformats" id="link-id17825e40">microformats</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/RDFa" id="link-id189a8738">RDFa</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Embedded_RDF" id="link-id1933d5c0">eRDF</a>, SIOC, FOAF, etc.), once you have Structure RDFization (i.e. transformation to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id19744878">Linked Data</a>) is a synch thanks to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id180dde30">RDF</a> Middleware (as per <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&type=text&kwds=self%20annotation&OpenSearch" id="link-id16dc3130">earlier RDF middleware posts</a>).</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-16T16:15:29.1000-04:00
My Talis Podcast re. Semantic Web, Linked Data, and OpenLink Software
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1361
2008-05-16T00:10:23Z
<p> <a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/05/kingsley-idehen-talks-about-openlink-software-linked-data-and-the-semantic-web.php" id="link-id1036b118">My podcast interview</a> with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/pau1mi11er" id="link-id1026ed10">Paul Miller</a> of <a href="http://www.talis.com" id="link-id12d210d8">Talis</a> is out. As I listened to the podcast (naturally awkward affair) I got a first hand sense of Paul's mastery of the art of interviewing, even when dealing with a fast talking <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id180e1208">data</a> blitzers like me. Personally, I think I still talk a little too fast (the Nigerian in me), especially when the subject matter hones right into the epicenter of my professional passions: Open <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id1737a258">Data</a> Access and Heterogeneous <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id180f0668">Data</a> Integration (aka. <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Virtual_Database" id="link-id10c62348">Virtual Database</a> Technology) -- so you may need to rewind every now and then during the interview :-)</p> <p>During this particular podcast interview, I deliberately wanted to have an conversation about the practical value of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id180c9f88">Linked Data</a>, rather than the technical innards. The fundamental utility of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id17387618">Linked Data</a> remains somewhat mercurial, and I am certainly hoping to do my bit at the upcoming <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id183ec288">Linked Data</a> Planet conference re. demonstrating and articulating <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1401f250">linked data</a> value across the blurring realms of "the individual" and "the enterprise".</p> <p> <strong>Note to my old schoolmates on Facebook</strong>: when you listen to this podcast you will at least reconcile "Uyi Idehen" with "<a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this" id="link-id180a7060">Kingsley Idehen</a>". Unfortunately, Facebook refuses to let me Identify myself in the manner I choose. Ideally, I would like to have the name: "Kingsley (Uyi) Idehen" associated with my Facebook ID since this is the Identifier known to my personal network of friends, family, and old schoolmates. This Identity predicament is a long running Identity case study in the making.</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-16T12:53:49.2000-04:00
On "Semantic", "Semantic Web", and "Linked Data Web"
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1360
2008-05-15T14:11:13Z
<p> <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/" id="link-id102f4e00">Nova Spivack</a> has just penned a post titled: <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2008/05/on-the-differen.html" id="link-id101a2300">On the Difference Between "Semantic" and "Semantic Web</a>", where he covers the fundamental difference between "Semantic" (what I call "Semantics Inside") and "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id11dd0578">Semantic Web</a>" applications. I would like to extend the distinctions further by adding the "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10b54ca0">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id106f73d0">Web</a>" distinctions to the developing discourse. </p> <p>The <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1089ff48">Linked Data Web</a> (aka. <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10653828">Linked Data</a>) describes <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id134abfb0">RDF</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id140283a8">data</a> injected into the Web, where the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Identity_(object-oriented_programming)" id="link-id1029ebf0">Data Object Identifiers</a> (URIs) in an <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id1011b180">RDF</a> graph (collection of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id103a4960">RDF</a> triples) are endowed with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id104362d8">HTTP</a> based URIs. The net effect of this approach to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id107963a0">Data</a> Object Identity is that it facilitates "Open <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id1331f640">Data</a> Access by Reference" on the Web (aka <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id10a3c608">data</a> dereferencing).</p> <p>If you recall pre Web ubiquity, in the enterprise realm for instance, Open Database Connectivity (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id12c6dd40">ODBC</a>) emerged as a mechanism for separating <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id13d6a5b0">Data</a> Access and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id10b29488">Data</a> Management in the database oriented Client-Sever model. Although <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id106a8bd8">ODBC</a> gave you access to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">data</a>, the data access entry point took the form of a data access specific naming mechanism called a "Data Source Name" (DSN). <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id106eef18">ODBC</a> DSNs typically exposed Tables or Views. The same thing applies to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Java_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id12c6dfe8">JDBC</a> where a non <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id104cb620">HTTP</a> based URN scheme applies.</p> <p>Zip forward to where we are today on the Web; the Web is evolving from a Document centric Database to a Distributed <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Object_database" id="link-id12d15268">Object Database</a>, and you should see that in <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10716bb8">Linked Data</a> we are now truly looking at the best of all worlds: Web Open Database Connectivity (WODBC) with the following advantages:</p> <ul>- direct Access to a single Record (an <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id1037d530">Entity</a>) or Record Sets (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id10d48e98">RDF</a> based <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id1402c8f0">Entity</a> Sets) by reference over <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id10bae7a8">HTTP</a> across disparate Data Spaces on the Web</ul> <ul>- the ability to mesh disparate data sources without being impeded by back-end DBMS engine model, vendor, host operating development frameworks, or host operating system specificity</ul> <ul>- an opportunity to learn from the enterprise DBMS market and Client-Server markets of yore with regards to the shape and form of next generation <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10fe4558">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id10153c98">Web</a> oriented solutions.</ul> <p>To conclude, we now have "Semantics Inside" (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id109d1280">RDF</a> or non <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework">RDF</a>), "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id106741a8">Semantic Web</a>" (RDF graphs with Object Identifiers that may or may not be <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id1011cc28">HTTP</a> based), and "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10793f70">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id149ecc10">Web</a>" (RDF graphs with Object Identifiers that must be <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id10a3b860">HTTP</a> based and dereferencable) oriented applications, in the emerging landscape associated with the "Semantics" moniker.</p> <p>As per usual, this post is a record in my <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id1020e240">Blog</a> oriented <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Spaces" id="link-id105cbf90">Data Space</a> on the Web. The permalink of this post is a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id10ce53a8">URI</a> constructed with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id1082f0f8">Giant Global Graph</a> enrichment in mind :-)</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-15T14:31:38.4000-04:00
Comments about recent Semantic Gang Podcast
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1357
2008-05-02T21:44:31Z
<p>After listening to the <a href="http://semanticgang.talis.com/2008/05/02/april-2008-the-semantic-web-gang-discuss-a-wikipedia-for-data/" id="link-id1089e218">latest Semantic Web Gang podcast</a>, I found myself agreeing with some of the points made by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/iskold" id="link-id10b91e58">Alex Iskold</a>, specifically: </p> <ul>-- <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id106e24e0">Linked Data</a> does not implicitly imply making all your <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id17ab3d48">data</a> public</ul> <ul>-- <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id11fdcef0">Linked Data</a> principles benefit <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Intranet" id="link-id109756e8">Intranet</a> and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Extranet" id="link-id1099cfd8">Extranet</a> style <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id10cd25b0">data</a> integration (trumps alternative <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/federated_database_system" id="link-id14f29940">distributed database</a> integration approaches any day)</ul> <ul>-- Business exploitation of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id0xca51940">Linked Data</a> on the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> will certainly be driven by the correlation of opportunity costs (which is more than likely what Alex meant by "use cases") associated with the lack of URIs originating from the domain of a given business (Tom Heath: also effectively alluded to this via his <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/BBC" id="link-id16f33348">BBC</a> and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id10decf38">URI</a> land grab anecdotes; same applies Georgi's examples)</ul> <ul>-- History is a great tutor, answers to many of today's problems always lie somewhere in plain sight of the past.</ul> <p>Of course, I also believe that <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data">Linked Data</a> serves Web <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id0x1afebd58">Data</a> Integration across the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Internet" id="link-id10aa5668">Internet</a> very well too, and the fact that it will be beneficial to businesses in a big way. No individual or organization is an island, I think the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Internet" id="link-id0xb25fbd0">Internet</a> and Web have done a good job of demonstrating that thus far :-) We're all <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">data</a> nodes in a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id5d8a3a8">Giant Global Graph</a>.</p> <p> <a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this" id="link-id17cac8a0">Daniel lewis</a> did shed light on the read-write aspects of the Linked Data <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id10be8590">Web</a>, which is actually very close to the callout for a Wikipedia for Data. <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i" id="link-id10a810c0">TimBL</a> has been working on this via <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2005/ajar/release/tabulator/0.8/tab.html" id="link-id184b7108">Tabulator</a> (see <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/tab/tutorial/editing.mov" id="link-id1416f1e8">Tabulator Editing Screencast</a>), <a href="http://bnode.org/about" id="link-id17e33750">Bengamin Nowack</a> also added <a href="http://arc.semsol.org/download/plugins/data_wiki" id="link-id1688cc40">similar functionality to ARC</a>, and of course we support the same <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SPARQL" id="link-id10bff7c8">SPARQL</a> UPDATE into an <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id168ace08">RDF</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id10641878">information</a> resource via the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id0xddb5240">RDF</a> Sink feature of our WebDAV and <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/OdsBriefcase" id="link-id0x11199310">ODS</a>-Briefcase implementations.</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-05T20:06:42.4000-04:00
In Perpetual Pursuit of Context
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1356
2008-05-02T19:18:33Z
<p>I've always been of the opinion that concise value proposition articulation shouldn't be the achilles of the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id158efe90">Semantic Web</a>. As the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id13a2db40">Linked Data</a> wave climbs up the "value Appreciation and Comprehension chain", it's getting clearer by the second that "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Context_%28language_use%29" id="link-id109316f0">Context</a>" is a point of confluence for <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id108daa60">Semantic Web</a> Technologies and easy to comprehend value, from the perspectives of those outside the core community.</p> <p>In today's primarily Document centric <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a>, the pursuit of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Context_%28language_use%29" id="link-id14edadd0">Context</a> is akin to pursuing a mirage in a desert of user generated content. The quest is labor intensive, and you ultimaely end up without water at the end of the pursuit :-)</p> <p>Listening to the <a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/05/christine-connors-talks-about-semantic-technologies-at-dow-jones.php" id="link-id12d5e1c0">Christine Connor's podcast interview with Talis</a> simply reinforces my strong belief that "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Context_%28language_use%29" id="link-id0x1ec69518">Context</a>, Context, Context" is the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id0xa279438">Semantic Web</a>'s equivalent of Real Estate's "Location, Location, Location" (ignore the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Subprime_lending" id="link-id140b8098">subprime</a> loans mess for now). The critical thing to note is that you cannot unravel "Context" from existing Web content without incorporating powerful disambiguation technology into an "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id15a2f380">Entity</a> Extraction" process. Of course, you cannot even consider seriously pursing any <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id10868a18">entity</a> extraction and disambiguation endeavor without a lookup backbone that exposes "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Named_entity_recognition" id="link-id168dc230">Named Entities</a>" and their relationships to "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Topic" id="link-id17cb1950">Subject matter Concepts</a>" (BTW - this is what <a href="http://umbel.org/about/" id="link-id14f406a0">UMBEL</a> is all about). Thus, when looking at the broad subject of the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web">Semantic Web</a>, we can also look at "Context" as the vital point of confluence for the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id12d67e38">Data</a> oriented (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id14f8daf0">Linked Data</a>) and the "Linguistic Meaning" oriented perspectives.</p> <p>I am even inclined to state publicly that "Context" may ultimately be the foundation for <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&q=dimension%20web%204.0%20&type=text&output=html" id="link-id17cb0708">4th "Web Interaction Dimension"</a> where practical use of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Artificial_intelligence" id="link-id10b15088">AI</a> leverages a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id0x1ebf9310">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id10b27018">Web</a> substrate en route to exposing new kinds of value :-)</p> <p>"Context" may also be the focal point of concise value proposition articulation to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Venture_Capital" id="link-id10837578">VCs</a> as in: "My solution offers the ability to discover and exploit "Context" iteratively, at the rate of $X.XX per iteration, across a variety of market segments :-)</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-03T15:07:32.000-04:00
XTech Talks covering Linked Data
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1355
2008-05-02T14:53:08Z
<p>Courtesy a post by <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/person/bizer#this" id="link-id10868548">Chris Bizer</a> to the <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id15739748">LOD</a> community <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/" id="link-id10fae0f8">mailing list</a>, here is a list of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id140a0880">Linked Data</a> oriented talks at the upcoming <a href="http://2008.xtech.org" id="link-id12801f00">XTech</a> 2008 event (also see the <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/grid" id="link-id10f65940">XTech 2008 Schedule</a> which is <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1258a4c8">Linked Data</a> friendly). Of course, I am posting this to my <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id140a29c0">Blog</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id12d5a640">Data</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Spaces" id="link-id10979b80">Space</a> with the sole purpose of adding <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id176be078">data</a> to the rapidly growing <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id1099aec8">Giant Global Graph</a> of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10d72d88">Linked Data</a>, basically adding to my collection of live <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id11014000">Linked Data</a> utility demos :-)</p> <p>Here is the list:</p> <ol> <li> <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/561" id="link-id17df4d78">Linked Data Deployment</a> (<a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this" id="link-id17c47d28">Daniel Lewis</a>, <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/organization/openlink#this" id="link-id108fce00">OpenLink Software</a>)</li> <li> <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/524" id="link-id1068c0e0">The Programmes Ontology</a> (Tom Scott, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/BBC" id="link-id1566da50">BBC</a> and all) </li> <li> <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/528" id="link-id1072be40">SemWebbing the London Gazette</a> (Jeni Tennison, The Stationery Office) </li> <li> <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/583" id="link-id1099e4e0">Searching, publishing and remixing a Web of Semantic Data</a> (<a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/person/cygri#this" id="link-id17e25b78">Richard Cyganiak</a>, DERI Galway) </li> <li> <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/477" id="link-idf9764c8">Building a Semantic Web Search Engine: Challenges and Solutions</a> (Aidan Hogan, DERI Galway) </li> <li>'<a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/550" id="link-id140a3c50">That's not what you said yesterday!</a>' - evolving your <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> API (<a href="http://iandavis.com/id/me" id="link-id14f8d498">Ian Davis</a>, Talis) </li> <li> <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/527" id="link-id10c5a9c8">Representing, indexing and mining scientific data using XML and RDF: Golem and CrystalEye</a> (<a href="http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/walkingshaw/" id="link-id108c5e28">Andrew Walkingshaw</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/University_of_Cambridge" id="link-id10891560">University of Cambridge</a>)</li> </ol> <p>For the time challenged (i.e. those unable to view this post using it's permalink / <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id10db39f0">URI</a> as a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id10f29bb8">data</a> source via the <a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser" id="link-id10f72778">OpenLink RDF Browser</a>, <a href="http://zitgist.com/about/" id="link-id107b73b0">Zitgist</a> <a href="http://dataviewer.zitgist.com" id="link-id1686d528">Data Viewer</a>, <a href="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rdf_browser" id="link-id110479e8">DISCO Hyperdata Browser</a>, or <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2005/ajar/release/tabulator/0.8/tab.html" id="link-id140ba0e8">Tabulator</a>), the benefits of this post are as follows:</p> <ul> <li>automatic <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id172d2fc8">URI</a> generation for all linked items in this post</li> <li>automatic propagation of tags to <a href="http://del.icio.us" id="link-id10547380">del</a>.<a href="http://del.icio.us" id="link-id1093cc10">icio</a>.<a href="http://del.icio.us" id="link-id168ce3a0">us</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com" id="link-id17aa8af0">Technorati</a>, and <a href="http://www.pingthesemanticweb.com/about/" id="link-id10868ad8">PingTheSemanticWeb</a> </li> <li>automatic association of formal meanings to my Tags using the <a href="http://moat-project.org/ontology" id="link-id10c98608">MOAT Ontology</a> </li> <li>automatic collation and generation of statistical <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id10a4d1d8">data</a> about my tags using the SCOT Ontology (*missing link is a callout to SCOT <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tag" id="link-id168b7c10">Tag</a> Ontology folks to sort the project's home page <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Locator" id="link-id11fd4118">URL</a> at the very least*) </li> <li>explicit typing of my Tags as <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SKOS" id="link-id10940eb8">SKOS</a> Concepts. </li> </ul> <p>Put differently, I cost-effectively contribute to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id10a081a8">GGG</a> across all <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&q=web%20dimensions&type=text&output=html" id="link-id10597530">Web interaction dimensions</a> (1.0, 2.0, 3.0) :-)</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-05-05T17:07:17.000-04:00
Clearing Up RDF misrepresentation once again!
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1352
2008-04-30T15:51:17Z
<p> <a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this" id="link-id12d57690">Daniel Lewis</a> has penned a post titled: <a href="http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/04/30/clearing-up-some-misconceptions-again/" id="link-id10c99f18">Clearing up some misconceptions..again</a>, in response to <a href="http://elgg.org/bwerdmuller/foaf#elgg2" id="link-id14fe1bc8">Ben Werdmuller</a>'s post titled: <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=477" id="link-id141cee58">Introducing the Open Data Definition</a>. </p> <p>The great thing about the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id105991a8">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id10a6ec78">Web</a> is that it's much easier to discovery and respond to these points of view before the ink dries :-) Ben certainly needs to take a look at the <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ" id="link-id10f78958">Semantic Web FAQ</a> pre or post assimilation of Daniel's response.</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-30T12:07:58.1000-04:00
Linked Data enters state of Evoluation
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1351
2008-04-29T19:56:14Z
<p>During a brief chat with <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/person/mhausenblas#this" id="link-idfeb0100">Michael Hausenblas</a> about a new <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1049feb0">Linked Data</a> project he is championing called: <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/LForum" id="link-id16a857d8">LForum</a>, I made a freudian slip, in the form of the typo: <strong>Evoluation</strong>, which at the time was supposed to have been: <strong>Evolution</strong>. Anyway, we had a chuckle and realized we were on to something, so I proceeded to formalize the definition: </p> <blockquote> <cite>Evoluation is evolution devoid of the randomness of mutation. A state of being in which it is possible to evaluate and choose evolutionary paths.</cite> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Evoluation</strong> actually describes where we are today in relation to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-id105c1518">World Wide Web</a>; to the <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id103f9d00">Linking Open Data community</a> (<a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id1048c210">LOD</a>), it's taking the path towards becoming a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id104c3a20">Giant Global Graph</a> of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id104968e0">Linked Data</a>; to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> 2.0 community, it's simply a collection of Web Services and associated APIs; and to many others, it remains an opaque collection of interlinked documents.</p> <p>The great thing about the Web is that it allows netizens to explore a plethora of paths without adversely affecting the paths of others. That said, controlling one's path may take mutation out of evolution, but we are still left with the requirement to adapt and eventually survive in a competitive environment. Thus, although we can evaluate and choose from the many paths the Web's evolution offers us, the path that delivers the most benefits ultimately dominates. :-) </p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-29T16:25:47.000-04:00
Linked Data Trip Report - Part 1 (Update 2)
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1343
2008-04-28T18:48:33Z
<p>Typo cleansed edition :-)</p> <h2>Objectives</h2> <ul> <li>Meet <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id12c52e40">LOD</a> Community Members</li> <li>Participate in Workshop </li> </ul> <h3>Meeting <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id10456058">LOD</a> Community Members</h3> <p>Although the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> continues to shrink the planet by removing the restrictions of geopgrahic location, meeting people face-to-face remains invaluable (*priceless in Mastercard AD speak*). Naturally, meeting and chatting with as many <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id1382d4f8">LOD</a> community members as possible was high up on my agenda.</p> <h3>Participate in Workshop </h3> <p>As one of the co-chairs of the Linking Open <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id143a8c30">Data</a> Workshop (<a href="http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/" id="link-id10621d70">LODW</a>), I had a 5 minute workshop opening slot during which I spoke about the following:</p> <h4>Where we are today: </h4> <p>We have <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/DBpedia" id="link-id109b40a0">DBpedia</a> as a major hub on the burgeoning <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1074f248">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id101ed948">Web</a>. When OpenLink offered to host <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/DBpedia" id="link-id10cd1b20">DBpedia</a> (a combination of <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id13d19880">Virtuoso</a> DBMS Software and sizable backend Hardware infrastructure), it did so knowing that such an effort would emphatically address the "chicken and egg" conundrum that, prior to this undertaking, stifled the ability to demonstrate practical utility of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id13835980">HTTP</a> based <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id14a89c28">Linked Data</a>.<br /> <br /> Today, the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10aa9fe0">Linked Data</a> bootstrap mission has been accomplished.</p> <h4>Where we go next:</h4> <p>Although <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/DBpedia" id="link-id12fe5d98">DBpedia</a> is a hub (ground zero of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id14aca9b8">Linked Data</a>), we have to put it into perspective in relation to a new set of needs and expectations moving forward. Today, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/DBpedia" id="link-id1027f098">DBpedia</a> is a Sun at the heart of a Solar System within the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id14a6adf8">Linked Data</a> Galaxy. But unlike Space as we know it, in <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cyberspace" id="link-id14a80398">Cyberspace</a> we can have connectivity and collaboration across Solar Systems -- life exists elsewhere and we are part of a collaborative collective unimpeded by constraints of space travel etc. Thus, expect to see the emergence of other Solar Systems accessible to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/DBpedia" id="link-id14904998">DBpedia</a> and its collections of planets (see. <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id1097d200">LOD</a> <a href="http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/" id="link-id14acecf0">diagram</a>). Examples underway include <a href="http://umbel.org/about/" id="link-idfe92c08">UMBEL</a> which will serve the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id107fac40">Linked Data</a> planets from <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cyc" id="link-id12fb9e88">OpenCyc</a> (Subject Matter Concepts), <a href="http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~suchanek/downloads/yago/" id="link-id147ea790">Yago</a> (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Named_entity_recognition" id="link-id14ae83a8">Named Entities</a>), and <a href="http://www.bio2rdf.org/" id="link-id10890640">Bio2RDF</a> (which provides powerful Bio Informatics based <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1439a858">Linked Data</a> planet).</p> <p>I urged the community to veer more aggressively towards developing and demonstrating practical <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id11f8e188">Linked Data</a> driven solutions that are aligned to well known problems. Of course, I encouraged all presenters to make this an integral part of their presentations :-) </p> <h4>Workshop Summary: </h4> <p>The workshop was well attended and I found all the presentations engaging and full of enthusiasm. </p> <p>As the sessions progressed, it became clear during a number of accompanying Q&A sessions that a new <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-idff249b0">Linked Data</a> exploitation frontier is emerging. The frontier in question takes the form of a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10f73b50">Linked Data</a> substrate capable of addressing the taxonomic needs of solutions aimed at automated <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Named_entity_recognition" id="link-id10d16e00">Named Entity Extraction</a>, Disambiguation, Subject matter Concept alignment, transparently integrated with existing Web Content. Thus, we are moving beyond the minting and deployment of of dereferencable URIs and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id10419210">RDF</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id151520d0">data</a> sets to automagically associating existing Web Content with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Named_entity_recognition" id="link-id105573b0">Named Entities</a> (People, Organizations, Places, Events etc..) and Subject matter Concepts (Politics, Music, Sports, and others) while remaining true to the <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id14579108">Linking Open Data Community</a> creed i.e. ensuring the Named <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id147d31e8">Entity</a> and Subject matter Concept URIs are available to user agents or users seeking to produce alternative <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id14ae41f0">data</a> views (i.e. Mesh-ups).</p> <p>I will get to part 2 of this report once the actual workshop sessions slides go live (*these are different from the <a href="http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/" id="link-id1034eee8">pre-event PDFs links</a>*).</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-29T11:07:43.2000-04:00
Linked Data Illustrated and a Virtuoso Functionality Reminder
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1342
2008-04-28T17:32:47Z
<a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this" id="link-id156ceb30">Daniel Lewis</a> has put together a nice <a href="http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/04/27/linked-data-the-role-of-the-data-server/" id="link-id10456040">collection of Linked Data related posts</a> that illustrate the fundamentals of the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1033f6f0">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id106fa168">Web</a> and the vital role that <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id10141c20">Virtuoso</a> plays as a deployment platform. Remember, <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id10301e38">Virtuoso</a> was architected in 1998 (see <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSHistory" id="link-id10c44088">Virtuoso History</a>) in anticipation of the eventual <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Internet" id="link-id1383a1e8">Internet</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Intranet" id="link-id1028e770">Intranet</a>, and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Extranet" id="link-id14b07b40">Extranet</a> level requirements for a different kind of Server. At the time of <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id14ad24a8">Virtuoso</a>'s inception, many thought our desire to build a multi-protocol, multi-model, and multi-purpose, virtual and native <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id108dac48">data</a> server was sheer craziness, but we pressed on (courtesy of our vision and technical capabilities). Today, we have a very sophisticated <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Virtuoso_Universal_Server" id="link-id14a65d48">Universal Server</a> Platform (in Open Source and Commercial forms) that is naturally equipped to do the following via very simple interfaces: <ul> - Produce <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id11fb1170">RDF</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10871da8">Linked Data</a> from non <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id156ec3d0">RDF</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id10f0ca38">Data</a> Sources (Heterogeneous <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SQL" id="link-id15133078">SQL</a>, XML, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> Services)</ul> <ul> - Provide highly scalable <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id10585940">RDF</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id15151e10">Data</a> Management via a Quad Store (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/DBpedia" id="link-id1530d640">DBpedia</a> is an example of a live demonstration)</ul> <ul> - Sophisticated Deployment of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10141c80">Linked Data</a> that exploits the power of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SPARQL" id="link-id1064fa18">SPARQL</a> </ul> <ul> - Powerful WebDAV innovations that simplify read-write mode interaction with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1396ff68">Linked Data</a> </ul> <ul> - Use Web <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Federated_database_system" id="link-id108256e8">Data Virtualization</a> to address the pain and frustration associated with Web <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id147e65f8">Data</a> Silos (e.g. <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/OpenLink_Data_Spaces" id="link-idffaf078">OpenLink Data Spaces</a> layer stop <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id14ae8fe8">Virtuoso</a> that delivers <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/OpenLink_Data_Spaces" id="link-id0xa0fb5e40">Personal Data Spaces</a> / Unified Storage in the Clouds) </ul> <ul> - Deliver a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10869700">Linked Data</a> development and deployment platform to .<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/.NET_Framework" id="link-id1514cac0">NET</a> (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Visual_Basic" id="link-id10c107a8">VB</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/C_(programming_language)" id="link-id101f3c68">C</a>#) , Java, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PHP" id="link-id106e4710">PHP</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ruby_programming_language" id="link-id10277448">Ruby</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Perl" id="link-id10a75748">Perl</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Python_programming_language" id="link-id12fdb118">Python</a>, '<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/C_(programming_language)" id="link-id10c9d9e0">C</a>', <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/C%2B%2B" id="link-id10392400">C++</a>, and other developers </ul> <ul>- More...</ul>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-28T14:47:06.1000-04:00
Explaining the Granular Social Network
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1341
2008-04-15T21:03:54Z
<p>Courtesy of <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user321809/l:embed_898144" id="link-id10c725a8">Thomas Vander Wal</a>'s interesting <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id142dfb90">blog</a> post titled: Explaining the Granular Social Network, I found a nice video that highlights the Who + What you know aspect of Social Networking ad the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id1054bc58">GGG</a> in general. </p> <p>As I can't quite remix Videos on the spur of the moment (yet), I would encourage you to watch the video and then click on the link to <a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/kidehen" id="link-id130b7410">my FOAF Profile</a>, then follow the "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id18485a48">Linked Data</a>" tab to see how <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id14070380">Linked Data</a> oriented platforms (in my case <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/OpenLink_Data_Spaces" id="link-id10a30f60">OpenLink Data Spaces</a>) that exist today actually deliver what's explained in the video. </p> <p>"What You Know" (<a href="http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2008/03/users-as-data-c.html" id="link-id140f4e28">Data & Friend Networks</a>) ultimately trumps "Who You Know" (Friend only Networks). The exploitation power of this reality is enhanced exponentially via the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id0xdcf0460">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-id0xa008f990">Web</a> once the implications of beaming <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SPARQL" id="link-idfdfa2f0">SPARQL</a> queries down specific URIs (entry points to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id15ce0dc0">Linked Data</a> graphs) become clearer :-)</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-15T17:22:42.000-04:00
Linked Data enabling PHP Applications
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1334
2008-04-10T18:09:49Z
<p> <a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this" id="link-id10820610">Daniel lewis</a> has penned a variation of post about <a href="http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/04/10/simplified-adding-wordpress-blogs-into-the-linked-data-web-using-virtuoso/" id="link-id10827948">Linked Data enabling PHP applications</a> such as: <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/WordPress" id="link-id10426278">Wordpress</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PhpBB" id="link-id13f431c0">phpBB3</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/MediaWiki" id="link-id10dd8760">MediaWiki</a> etc.</p> <p>Daniel simplifies my post by using diagrams to depict the different paths for <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PHP" id="link-id10adcc08">PHP</a> based applications exposing <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id107b4e60">Linked Data</a> - especially those that already provide a significant amount of the content that drives <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-id13b0ab48">Web</a> 2.0.</p> <p>If all the content in <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-id0x1d499470">Web</a> 2.0 <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id12bd3b10">information</a> resources are distillable into discrete <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id10962060">data</a> objects endowed with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id176a30e8">HTTP</a> based IDs (URIs), with zero "<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&q=rdf%20tax&type=text&output=html" id="link-id1098bcd8">RDF handcrafting Tax</a>", what do we end up with? A <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id1372ce88">Giant Global Graph</a> of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id0xa29f0658">Linked Data</a>; the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> as a Database.</p> <p>So, what used to apply exclusively, within enterprise settings re. <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oracle_Database" id="link-id12d91448">Oracle</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/IBM_DB2" id="link-id13dd27d8">DB2</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/IBM_Informix" id="link-id108e6b98">Informix</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ingres" id="link-id13383708">Ingres</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sybase" id="link-idfed8aa8">Sybase</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Microsoft_SQL_Server" id="link-id10b8b190">Microsoft SQL Server</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL" id="link-id13066ea8">MySQL</a>, PostrgeSQL, Progress Open Edge, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Firebird_database_server" id="link-id104f0a78">Firebird</a>, and others, now applies to the Web. The Web becomes the "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/federated_database_system" id="link-id105a5340">Distributed Database</a> Bus" that connects database records across disparate databases (or <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id0xc706c68">Data</a> Spaces). These databases manage and expose records that are remotely accessible "by reference" via <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" id="link-id0x1c8f7fe0">HTTP</a>.</p> <p>As I've stated at every opportunity in the past, Web 2.0 is the greatest thing that every happened to the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web" id="link-id13d65278">Semantic Web</a> vision :-) Without the "<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&q=Web%202.0%20%20conundrum&type=text&output=html" id="link-id100d16d0">Web 2.0 Data Silo Conundrum</a>" we wouldn't have the cry for "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">Data</a> Portability" that brings a lot of clarity to some fundamental Web 2.0 limitations that end-users ultimately find unacceptable.</p> <p> In the late '80s, the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SQL" id="link-idff4f0d0">SQL</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SQL_Access_Group" id="link-id138fbd40">Access Group</a> (now part of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/X/Open" id="link-id104ee010">X</a>/<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/X/Open" id="link-id0xac9eab8">Open</a>) addressed a similar problem with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Relational_database_management_system" id="link-id106d2008">RDBMS</a> silos within the enterprise that lead to the SAG <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Call_Level_Interface" id="link-id105d45d0">CLI</a> which is exists today as Open Database Connectivity.</p> <p>In a sense we now have WODBC (Web Open Database Connectivity), comprised of Web Services based CLIs and/or traditional back-end DBMS CLIs (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id13f58708">ODBC</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Java_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id10aa81e0">JDBC</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/ADO.NET" id="link-id5fddb68">ADO</a>.<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/ADO.NET" id="link-id0x9f085a10">NET</a>, OLE-DB, or Native), Query Language (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SPARQL" id="link-id10adb5c8">SPARQL</a> Query Language), and a Wire Protocol (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol">HTTP</a> based <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-protocol/" id="link-id126fa068">SPARQL Protocol</a>) delivering Web infrastructure equivalents of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SQL" id="link-id0x1d0a5fc8">SQL</a> and RDA, but much better, and with much broader scope for delivering profound value due to the Web's inherent openness. Today's <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PHP" id="link-id0xc88ed68">PHP</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Python_programming_language" id="link-id10a70530">Python</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ruby_programming_language" id="link-id13d9da18">Ruby</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tcl" id="link-id10a3c2a8">Tcl</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Perl" id="link-id13e1b6f0">Perl</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/ASP.NET" id="link-id10810388">ASP</a>.<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/ASP.NET" id="link-id0xa22ce378">NET</a> developer is the enterprise <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/4GL" id="link-id1396a500">4GL</a> developer of yore, without enterprise confinement. We could even be talking about <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/5GL" id="link-id1077f250">5GL</a> development once the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data">Linked Data</a> interaction is meshed with dynamic languages (delivering higher levels of abstraction at the language and data interaction levels). Even the underlying schemas and basic design will evolve from <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Closed_world_assumption" id="link-id10b280c8">Closed World</a> (solely) to a mesh of Closed & <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_world_assumption" id="link-id104b9978">Open World</a> view schemas.</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-10T14:12:47.000-04:00
Adding Wordpress Blogs into the Linked Data Web using Virtuoso
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1333
2008-04-09T21:27:34Z
<p> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/WordPress" id="link-id101103b0">Wordpress</a> is a Weblog platform comprised of the following: </p> <ol> <li>User Interface - <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PHP" id="link-id107ba368">PHP</a> </li> <li>Application Logic - <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PHP" id="link-id107066b8">PHP</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id13968340">Data</a> Storage (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SQL" id="link-id104c5350">SQL</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Relational_database_management_system" id="link-id1076d790">RDBMS</a>) - <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL" id="link-id109c4ea0">MySQL</a> via <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PHP" id="link-id133af570">PHP</a>-<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL" id="link-idf0b03b0">MySQL</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Application_server" id="link-id13217630">Application Server</a> - <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apache" id="link-id108219d8">Apache</a> </li> </ol> <p>In the form above (the norm), <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/WordPress" id="link-id105c6d88">Wordpress</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id104938f8">data</a> can be injected into the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id107a5f18">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-id177329c0">Web</a> via RDFization middleware such as the<a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/Whitepapers/html/VirtSpongerWhitePaper.html" id="link-id10531b50">Virtuoso Sponger</a> (built into all <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id10d7e710">Virtuoso</a> instances) and <a href="http://triplr.org/" id="link-id107dcab8">Triplr</a>. The downside of this approach is that the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-id1055ab68">blog</a> owner doesn't necessary possess full control over their contributions to the emerging <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-idfed0358">Giant Global Graph</a> or <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10d70668">Linked Data</a>.</p> <p>Another route to <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id104c7f68">Linked Data</a> exposure is via <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id0xa255fb50">Virtuoso</a>'s Metaschema Language for producing <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id10968388">RDF</a> Views over <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id13f594c8">ODBC</a>/<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Java_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id138f69a8">JDBC</a> accessible <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id1393c068">Data</a> Sources, that enables the following setup:</p> <ol> <li>User Interface - <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PHP" id="link-id0x9fb9c478">PHP</a> </li> <li>Application Logic - PHP </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data" id="link-id0xc605960">Data</a> Storage (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SQL" id="link-id0xc2be608">SQL</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Relational_database_management_system" id="link-id0xc7a28a8">RDBMS</a>) - <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL" id="link-id0xc7228f0">MySQL</a> via the PHP-MySQL <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">data</a> access interface </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Virtual_Database" id="link-id134b1ee8">Virtual Database</a> linkage of MySQL Tables into Virtuoso </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-idfe31548">RDF</a> View generated over the Virtual SQL Tables </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Application_server" id="link-id0xb8dfa68">Application Server</a> - Virtuoso which provides <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id0xc149518">Linked Data</a> Deployment such that <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id10ad9ca0">RDF</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data">Linked Data</a> is exposed when requested by <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-idfd352e0">Web</a> User Agents.</li> </ol> <p>Alternatively, you can also exploit Virtuoso as the SQL DBMS, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework" id="link-id0x9ec4f440">RDF</a> DBMS, Application Server, and Linked Data Deployment platform:</p> <ol> <li>User Interface - PHP </li> <li> Application Logic - PHP </li> <li>Data Storage (SQL RDBMS) - Virtuoso via PHP-<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id14197218">ODBC</a> data access interface (* <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id103d1a80">ODBC</a> is Virtuoso's native SQL CLI/API *) </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Resource_Description_Framework">RDF</a> View generated over the Native SQL Tables </li> <li>Application Server - Virtuoso which provides Linked Data Deployment such that RDF Linked Data is exposed when requested by <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web" id="link-id13918d68">Web</a> User Agents (e.g. <a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser" id="link-idff835f0">OpenLink RDF Browser</a>, <a href="http://zitgist.com/about/" id="link-id1372e510">Zitgist</a> <a href="http://dataviewer.zitgist.com" id="link-id109c3048">Data Viewer</a>, <a href="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rdf_browser" id="link-id105d97f0">DISCO Hyperdata Browser</a>, and <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2005/ajar/release/tabulator/0.8/tab.html" id="link-id10cc20d8">Tabulator</a>). </li> </ol> <h2 align="left">Benefits?</h2> <ul> <li>Each user account gets a proper Linked Data <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id108c92b0">URI</a> (ID) that can me meshed/smushed with other IDs (so you add data from this new <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blog" id="link-idfd39648">blog</a> space to other linked data sources associated with you other URIs/IDs) </li> <li>Each post gets a proper <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id10add540">URI</a> All data is now query-able via <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SPARQL" id="link-id101b98f0">SPARQL</a> Discoverability increases exponentially (without drop in relevance in either direction i.e. discovering or being discovered)</li> </ul> <p>How Do I map the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/WordPress" id="link-id12e448c0">WordPress</a> SQL Schema to RDF using Virtuoso? </p> <ul> <li>Determine the RDF Schema or Ontologies that define the Classes for which you will be producing instance data (e.g. SIOC and FOAF) </li> <li>Declare <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-idfaf5c80">URI</a>/IRI generator functions (*special Virtuoso functions*) </li> <li>Use <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SPARQL" id="link-id100436b8">SPARQL</a> Graph patterns to apply <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id0x9de74950">URI</a>/IRI generator functions to Tables, Views, Table Values mode Stored Procedures, Query Resultsets as part of RDBMS to RDF mapping </li> </ul> <p> Read the <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VOSSQL2RDF" id="link-idfaf5d58">Meta Schema Language guide</a> or simply apply our "<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/WordPress" id="link-id0x9ef73c78">WordPress</a> SQL Schema to RDF" script to your Virtuoso hosted instance. Of course, there are other mappings that cover other PHP applications deployed via Virtuoso:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/PhpBB" id="link-id179f4870">phpBB3</a> SQL Schema to RDF </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Drupal" id="link-id10b263d8">Drupal</a> SQL Schema to RDF </li> <li> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/MediaWiki" id="link-id10263a40">MediaWiki</a> SQL Schema to RDF </li> </ul> <h2>Live Demos?</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/phpBB3" id="link-id17761e88">Virtuoso Hosting phpBB3</a> (<a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/phpBB3/user/demo#this" id="link-id10087e68">example User URI</a>)</li> <li> <a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/drupal" id="link-id1091f1d8">Virtuoso Hosting Drupal</a> (<a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/drupal/user/demo#this" id="link-id13e3d468">example User URI</a>)</li> <li> <a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/mediawiki" id="link-id10531be0">Virtuoso Hosting MediaWiki</a> (<a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/mediawiki/user/KingsleyIdehen#this" id="link-id109c5d40">example User URI</a>)</li> </ul>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-10T12:33:05.3000-04:00
Recent Data Portability, Linked Data, and Open Data Access Podcasts
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1332
2008-04-09T17:15:56Z
<p>I just listen to, and very much enjoyed (lots of chuckling) <a href="http://www.dajobe.org/" id="link-id177310c8">Dave Beckett</a>'s podcast interview on the <a href="http://talk.talis.com/" id="link-id1056ec98">Talis podcast network</a>. Clearly Dave has a bent for funny project names etc.. He also introduced "Inter-Webs" (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">Data</a> Spaces in my parlance) towards the end of the interview.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/about/" id="link-idfc558f0">Trent Adams</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/49b/4b5" id="link-id107137b0">Steve Greenberg</a>, and I, also had a podcast chat about <a href="http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2008/03/29/dataportability-in-motion-podcast/" id="link-id10663ec8">Web Data Portability and Accessibility (Linked Data)</a>. I also remixed <a href="http://www.johnbreslin.com/" id="link-id104617f0">Jon Breslin</a>'s "<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Cloud/dataportability-and-me-introducing-sioc-foaf-and-the-semantic-web/" id="link-id12ca2c70">Data Portability & Me</a>" presentation to produce: "<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Cloud/data-accessibility-and-me-introducing-sioc-foaf-and-the-linked-data-web/" id="link-idfdf0cd8">Data Accessibility & Me</a>". </p> <p>The podcasts interviews and presentations provide contributions to the broadening discourse about Open Data Access / Connectivity on the Web.</p>
Kingsley Uyi Idehen
kidehen@openlinksw.com
2008-04-09T13:22:23.2000-04:00