Semantic Web aka. Web 3.0 aka. Linked Data for people

February 26, 2009
Topics: Labs, Mobile, Prototype, Services, Updates

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So. What is Semantic Web aka. Web 3.0 aka. Linked Data? Why for people? It’s for machines. Stupid. Web 2.0 is for them ;)

Sometimes something starts with/on twitter. Please. Do not click ;)

Are there use cases of Semantic Web? Which people use? Not only “geeks”.

AustriaPro has developed an ontology called ebSemantics for the description of events and venues and other parts of the tourism sector.

Some days ago at the SIMsKultur Online project the OpenEvent RDF export was implemented for all events. By the way, you can also log-in with your Facebook account without extra registration.

Ok. Now we have an OpenEvent RDF file of the event “Diana Thater - gorillagorillagorilla” at “Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum“. This information is on http://simskultur.net.

Then we have there for example tupalo.com. They have reviews about “Kunsthaus Graz“. They want to provide more information for their users. They are going to implement the OpenEvent RDF data from @simskultur.

SIMsKultur Online is happy about the traffic from Tupalo when people are looking for more details about the event programm. It would also be nice to show the reviews from @tupalo on the SIMsKultur website and link back.

Now. How to match that data? Use the name of the venue? Nope. Not really the same. But could match. Use the address of the venue. Would also be possible that it could match in 90 - 95 %.

Linked Data to the rescue. SIMsKultur Online will be linking in the RDF file of the venue/event to Wikipedia and DBpedia or Freebase — owl:sameAs

If sites like tupalo.com or essenfinden.at are using ebSemantics and “owl:sameAs” it’s no problem to identify and import/update data accross the systems.

Nice. Visitors on tupalo.com and simskultur.net get data in very good quality.

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