Which one will see the good fit first?
A recent @TopQuadrant tweet about legal knowledge and RDF/XML led me to Dr. Adam Wyner’s piece Legal Ontologies Spin a Semantic Web on law.com. After reading it, I wanted to leave a comment, but this required registering on law.com and telling them lots of details about the law firm I work for. I don’t work for a law firm, so I’m just putting my comments here and expanding on them a bit.
What am I missing?
Yahoo! SearchMonkey is one of those interesting, RDF-related technologies that I’d been meaning to check out for a while, and when I saw how much of the reaction to Google’s Rich Snippets was people like Ryan Smith or Peter Mika in the May Semantic Web Gang podcast saying that Google was just doing what SearchMonkey had already done, I knew that it was time to look more closely at SearchMonkey.
And for anyone interested in working with ontologies.
And Linked Data, and RDF, and RDFa, and SPARQL, and OWL, and...
After writing a few paid articles and doing a lot of blogging about various issues, features, and trends surrounding the Semantic Web, Linked Data, RDF, RDFa, SPARQL, OWL, and related tools and implementations, I thought it would be nice if I could tie them together into something resembling a cohesive whole. So, I wrote a short essay titled RDF, The Semantic Web, and Linked Data with over 70 footnote links to these various pieces. It will be a handy reference for me in the future, and I hope it…
Surprise—to make more money!
After the initial burst of discussion about Google putting their toe into the standardized metadata water, I started wondering about the corner of the pool they had chosen. They’re not ready to start parsing any old RDFa; they’ll be looking for RDFa that uses the vocabulary they somewhat hastily defined for the purpose. Why does the vocabulary define the properties that it defines?
A Canadian historian uses semantic web technology to do interesting research and to lay the groundwork for others to do so.
I’ve attended and given a few Scholar’s Lab talks at the nearby University of Virginia, and I’m kicking myself for missing a recent talk by Mount Allison University’s Bruce Robertson, whose field at Mount Allison is ancient Greek and Roman history. (A podcast of his Scholars Lab talk is available here.) He’s the main guy behind the Historical Event Markup Linking Project (HEML) and apparently even the people who brought him to UVa to give his recent talk were…
From the golden days of goofy comics.
What if a shortening service goes down?
People love to talk about the implications of twitter.com going down, but what if a URL-shortening service goes down? When I had trouble getting to is.gd recently, I realized that when they’re down tweets referencing is.gd URLs are worthless—and that it wouldn’t be too difficult to do something about it before this happens. (I have wondered, though: why doesn’t twitter grab some short domain name and offer their own shortening service?) After all, if you’re saving any…
Bob DuCharme's weblog, mostly on technology for representing and linking information.
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