Semantic Web Death Match at ISWC
[Editor’s Note: This week, Juan Sequeda is reporting in from the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany] The Semantic Web Death Match: Industry vs Academica vs Standards at ISWC this week consisted of 5 panelists and Jim Hendler as the moderator. Each panelist summarized their point of view in a short phrase: Martin Hepp […]
Read More →Report from Day 2 at ISWC
[Editor’s Note: This week, Juan Sequeda is reporting in from the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany. See his other reports here: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] Day 2 of ISWC consisted of 7 workshops and 3 tutorials. One of the most popular workshops […]
Read More →Report from Day 1 at ISWC
[Editor’s Note: This week, Juan Sequeda is reporting in from the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany. See his other reports here: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] The first day at the International Semantic Web Conference consisted of 8 workshops and 3 tutorials. I […]
Read More →Querying the Whole Web of Data: a vision
The holy grail of the Semantic Web is to have intelligent agents that will be able to do all types of stuff for us, similar to what Siri is starting to do. Imagine my Semantic Web agent knows that I’ll be traveling to Bonn, Germany and will make a reservation at a restaurant that it […]
Read More →Introduction to: SPARQL
SPARQL is the standardized query language for RDF, the same way SQL is the standardized query language for relational databases. If this is the first time you look at SPARQL, but you’re familiar with SQL, you will see some similarities because it shares several keywords such as SELECT, WHERE, etc. It also has new keywords that you have never seen if […]
Read More →Bing Brings It On (RDFa, That Is)
The Twittersphere is buzzing about the Semantic Web at last grabbing onto the hearts and minds of the whole web community. It started off with a tweet from Juan Sequeda – a contributor to The Semantic Web Blog and a well-known figure in our area – that reads: A follow-up message […]
Read More →A Basic Introduction to OWL
A new article from Victoria Nicks takes a look at OWL, the Web Ontology Language.
Read More →Introduction to: Ontologies
In my most recent post, I introduced RDF as a flexible and schema-less data model. However, some of you may think then that using RDF data is going to be a complete mess. In some cases, that may be true; and it’s fine! There are use cases in which all you want is messy data. […]
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