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Semantic Web vs. Semantic Technologies

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 20, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Lee Feigenbaum Introduction That Semantic Web technologies and semantic technologiesboth start with semantic is often a source of confusion. This short lesson clarifies the relationship between Semantic Web technologies and semantic technologies. Today’s Lesson se • man • tic adj.—Of or relating to meaning in language. We’ll start by defining what exactly we mean by semantic technologies and Semantic...

Posted in Data mining, Semantic Technology, SemWeb

Tagged Data Mining, Machine learning, Semantic technology, semanticweb
Welcome to LOV (linked open vocabularies)

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/ March 20, 2012 / Leave a comment

Welcome to LOV, your entry point to the growing ecosystem of linked open vocabularies (RDFS or OWL ontologies) used in the Linked Data Cloud. Here you will find vocabularies listed and individually described by metadata, classified by vocabulary spaces, interlinked using the dedicated vocabulary VOAF. You will enjoy querying the LOV dataset either at vocabulary level or at element level, exploring...

Posted in Metadata, Ontology

Tagged Faceted search, KM, LOV, RDF Schema, semanticweb, Vocabulary
2012: The Year of the Semantic Web

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/ February 1, 2012 / Leave a comment

Steve Hamby Chief Technology Officer, Orbis Technologies, Inc In 1996, Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), defined modern Semantic Web technology with this vision: If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of...

Posted in Linked Data, Metadata, Ontology, SemWeb

Tagged semanticweb
The Power of Linked Open Data

Posted by digitalassetman
/ January 23, 2012 / Leave a comment

The Power of Linked Open Data – Understanding World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) vision of a new web of data by Andreas Blumauer Imagine that the web is like a giant global database. You want to build a new application that shows the correspondence among economic growth, renewable energy consumption, mortality rates...

Posted in Linked Data, SemWeb

Tagged Faceted search, Linked Data, Resource Description Framework, semanticweb, Uniform Resource Identifier
Semantic SEO for the Automotive Industry

Posted by digitalassetman
/ January 12, 2012 / Leave a comment

Cars are typically characterized by many technical features. Also, the location of offer and demand matters, both for used and new cars. This in combination with the vast amount of possibilities to configure a certain car model makes it very difficult to articulate the exact strengths and features of a...

Posted in Linked Data, Ontology, Semantic Technology

Tagged Search engine optimization, semanticweb
Can Semantic Web Technology Help Implement a Right to Be Forgotten?

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/ January 11, 2012 / Leave a comment

Kieron O’Hara examines the right to be forgotten – what it means and whether the technology is available to implement the right. This is the first in a series of articles arising from the SCL’s 6th Annual Policy Forum held in September 2011. During the revision of the EU’s data...

Posted in Linked Data

Tagged semanticweb
Making the Argument for Semantic Technologies

Posted by digitalassetman
/ September 27, 2011 / Leave a comment

Five Unique Advantages for the Enterprise There have been some notable attempts of late to make elevator pitches for semantic technologies, as well as Lee Feigenbaum’s recent series on Are We Asking the Wrong Question? about semantic technologies . Some have attempted to downplay semantic Web connotations entirely and to replace the pitch with...

Posted in Semantic Technology, SemWeb

Tagged Linked Data, Semantic technology, semanticweb
Asking the Right Question about the Semantic Web

Posted by digitalassetman
/ August 24, 2011 / Leave a comment

Lee Feigenbaum recently wrote an article regarding the question he gets asked most often by potential business customers regarding the semantic web,questions that are usually misplaced. The question is, What can I do with Semantic Web technologies that I can’t do otherwise? Feigenbaum writes, “It’s a question that’s asked in good faith: enterprise software buyers...

Posted in Semantic Technology, SemWeb

Tagged KM, Knowledge representation, RDF, semanticweb