March 20, 2009
Topics: Collaboration, Linked Data, Services, Standards, Updates
Wow. This sounds really great:
In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by nothing other then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens would be able to view where the money was going and how it was going to be spent.
To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web, RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDFa, SIOC, ATOM, RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis, XForms, P2P Networks. Wow. They only forgot the lions and tigers and bears oh my… This is an unbelievable stack of technology. I didn’t think the government even knew what an RSS feed was :)
For more information read the full article on sitepoint.com.
February 26, 2009
Topics: Labs, Mobile, Prototype, Services, Updates
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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