Nova Spivack Weighs In On an Open Standard for Cards
Nova Spivack, CEO of Bottlenose, recently opined in TechCrunch, “Cards are fast becoming the hot new design paradigm for mobile apps, but their importance goes far beyond mobile.”
Read More →You Can Take An Active Role In Schema.Org
by Jennifer Zaino Have you wanted to get involved in the schema.org project? Your contribution to the collaborative effort driven by Bing, Google, Yahoo and Yandex for a shared markup vocabulary for web pages is more than welcome. As Dan Brickley, who is developer advocate at Google, noted during his presentation about schema.org’s progress to […]
Read More →Schema.Org: The Fire’s Been Lit
by Jennifer Zaino Why has schema.org made the following strides since its debut in 2011? In a sample of over 12 billion web pages, 21 percent, or 2.5 billion pages, use it to mark up HTML pages, to the tune of more than 15 billion entities and more than 65 billion triples; In that same […]
Read More →The Four Top Search Providers Unite to Talk Semantic Web
Mark Albertson of the Examiner recently wrote, “It was an unusual sight to be sure. Standing on a convention center stage together were computer engineers from the four largest search providers in the world (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, and Yandex).”
Read More →Drupal Deepens Semantic Web Ties
by Jennifer Zaino Among the mainstream content management systems, you could make the case that Drupal was the first open source semantic CMS out there. At next week’s Semantic Technology and Business Conference, software engineer Stéphane Corlosquet of Acquia, which provides enterprise-level services around Drupal, and Bock & Co. principal Geoffrey Bock will discuss in […]
Read More →Add schema.org Actions to Your Own Knowledge Graph (Video — Part 3)
[Editor’s note: this is Part 3 of a series. See Part 1 and Part 2] by Eric Franzon In Part 3 of this series, Jarek Wilkiewicz details activating the small Knowledge Graph (built on Cayley) with Schema.org Actions. He begins by explaining how Actions can be thought of as a combination of “Entities” (things) and […]
Read More →Building The Scientific Knowledge Graph
by Jennifer Zaino Standard Analytics, which was a participant at the recent TechStars event in New York City, has a big goal on its mind: To organize the world’s scientific information by building a complete scientific knowledge graph. The company’s co-founders, Tiffany Bogich and Sebastien Ballesteros,came to the conclusion that someone had to take on […]
Read More →Schema.org Introduces Concept of Role
by Eric Franzon In a post yesterday at the official schema.org blog, Vicki Tardif Holland (Google) and Jason Johnson (Microsoft) have announced that schema.org has created a way to more richly describe relationships between entities in structured markup. The addition of the “Role” schema allows for the description of more complex relationships than were previously […]
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