@prefix rdf: . @prefix ns1: . @prefix foaf: . ns1:this rdf:type foaf:Person . @prefix atom: . rdf:type atom:Feed . @prefix sioct: . rdf:type sioct:Weblog . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "kidehen@openlinksw.com's BLOG [127] description" ; rdf:type atom:Entry , sioct:BlogPost . @prefix dc: . dc:title "CrunchBase gets hooked up with the Linked Data Web! " ; foaf:maker ns1:this ; rdfs:label "CrunchBase gets hooked up with the Linked Data Web! " . @prefix dt: . @prefix dcterms: . dcterms:created "2008-07-25T14:01:01Z"^^dt:dateTime ; dcterms:modified "2008-07-29T21:43:27-04:00"^^dt:dateTime . @prefix sioc: . sioc:id "e5d269f9b1904c99fa3fddf0ae16c77a" ; sioc:link ; sioc:content "<p>It&#39;s getting really hot in <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id15eea8f8">Linked Data</a> land! Two days ago\u00A0<a href="http://bnode.org/about" id="link-id107e2f70">Benjamin Nowack</a>\u00A0pinged the <a href="http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/lod#this" id="link-id11b93670">LOD</a> community about his\u00A0<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2008Jul/0110.html" id="link-id1022a270">RDFization of Crunchbase</a>\u00A0(sample (X)HTML view: http://cb.semsol.org/company/opera-software) courtesy of Crounchbase releasing an API. As you know, I&#39;ve always equated <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a> Service API to Database CLIs (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Open_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id16327528">ODBC</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Java_Database_Connectivity" id="link-id1027f410">JDBC</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/ADO.NET" id="link-id10683850">ADO</a>.<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/ADO.NET" id="link-id13beb9b8">NET</a> etc.) as both offer code level hooks into <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">Data</a> Spaces.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Naturally, we&#39;ve decided to join the Crunchbase RDFization party, and have just completed a <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com" id="link-id10282208">Virtuoso</a> <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/Whitepapers/html/VirtSpongerWhitePaper.html" id="link-id10acf0f8">Sponger</a> Cartridge (an RDFizer) for Crouncbase. What we add in our particular cartridge is additional meshing with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/DBpedia" id="link-id115e2a98">DBpedia</a> and Wikicompany <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id132f0568">Linked Data</a> Spaces, plus RDFizaton of the Crunchbase (X)HTML pages :-)</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>As I&#39;ve postulated for a while, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id13304010">Linked Data</a> is about data &quot;Meshing&quot; and &quot;Meshups&quot;. This isn&#39;t a buzzword play. I am pointing out an important distinction between &quot;Mashups&quot; and &quot;Meshpus&quot;. Which goes as follows: &quot;Mashups&quot; are about code level joining devoid of structured modelling, hence the revelation of code as opposed to data when you look behind a &quot;Mashup&quot;. &quot;Meshups&quot; on the other hand, are about joining disparate structured data sources across the Web. And when you look behind a &quot;Meshup&quot; you see structured data (preferably <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id143bdb68">Linked Data</a>) that enables further &quot;Meshing&quot;.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>I truly believe that we are now inches away from critical mass re. <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id14829640">Linked Data</a>, and because we are dealing with data, the network-effect will be sky-high! I shudder to think about the state of the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id0x1c41d150">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id133364e8">Web</a> in 12 months time. Yes, I am giving the explosion 12 months (or less). These are very exciting times.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Demo Links:</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n <ul>\n<li>\n<a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/ode/?uri%5B%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fcb.semsol.org%2Fcompany%2Fopera-software&amp;" id="link-id12fe1dc8">Opera Software via Benjee&#39;s Linked Data Space for Cunchbase</a>\n </li>\n <li>\n<a href="http://demo.openlinksw.com/ode/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crunchbase.com%2Fcompany%2Fopera-software" id="link-id10739a18">Opera Software via our Linked Data Space for Crunchbas</a>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>For best experience I encourage you to look at the\u00A0<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8062" id="link-id1499a0f8">OpenLink Data Explorer extension</a>\u00A0for Firefox (2.x - 3.x). This enables you to go to Crunchbase (X)HTML pages (and other sites on the Web of course), and then simply use the &quot;View | <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data">Linked Data</a> Sources&quot; main or <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Context_%28language_use%29" id="link-id10051b50">context</a> menu sequence to unveil the Linked Data Sources associated with any Web Page.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Of course there is much more to come!</p>\n\n\n\n" ; atom:title "CrunchBase gets hooked up with the Linked Data Web! 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