by Eric Franzon The W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced today a new collaboration to improve interoperability and integration of spatial data on the Web. Spatial data —describing geographic locations on the earth and natural and constructed features— enriches location-based consumer services, online maps, journalism, scientific research, government administration, the Internet of Things, […]
Technology Brief: Machine Learning on Natural Language Text and Log Data
by Eric Franzon Skytree, “The Machine Learning Company,” has published a technology brief entitled, “Machine Learning on Natural Language Text and Log Data.” The author of the brief is Nick Pendar, PhD, who serves as NLP Data Scientist for the company. Pendar states, “Critical business information is often in the form of unstructured and semi-structured […]
ODI Queensland joins the global open data community
by Eric Franzon Queensland, Australia, Dec. 2, 2014 (The ODI) — The Open Data Institute (ODI) today welcomes a new Node – ODI Queensland – to its international network. ODI Queensland is being launched at the Queensland Government’s Open Data Awards Ceremony, which is being attended by a broad mix audience of researchers, students, business […]
Consortium Opens “Linked Data Awareness Barometer” Survey
by Eric Franzon A new survey has been released and seeks to take measure of Linked Data Awareness. The “Linked Data Awareness Barometer 2015” was created by a consortium of four companies (Semantic Web Company, Cognizant, Lean Information, semweb LLC) and a research institute (Institute of Information Business at WU Wien) working in the areas […]
GitHub Adds schema.org Actions to Email Notifications via JSON-LD
by Eric Franzon Stéphane Corlosquet has noticed that GitHub has added schema.org Actions using the JSON-LD syntax to the notification emails that GitHub users receive. On Twitter, Corlosquet posted: Share on:
Want a music suggestion? Just ask DJ Twitter.
by Eric Franzon Alexandre Passant, founder of seevl, which we have covered before, has hacked together a cool proof of concept. He describes the project as using “Twitter As A Service,” and it leverages Twitter, YouTube, and the seevl API. As Passant describes, “The result is a twitter bot, running under our @seevl handle, which accepts a […]
DBpedia 2014 Announced
by Eric Franzon Professor Dr. Christian Bizer of the University of Mannheim, Germany, has announced the release of DBpedia 2014. DBpedia is described at dbpedia.org as “… a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link the different data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. […]
XSB and SemanticWeb.Com Partner In App Developer Challenge To Help Build The Industrial Semantic Web
by Jennifer Zaino An invitation was issued to developers at last week’s Semantic Technology and Business Conference: XSB and SemanticWeb.com have joined to sponsor the Semantic Web Developer Challenge, which asks participants to build sourcing and product life cycle management applications leveraging XSB’s PartLink Data Model. XSB is developing PartLink as a project for the […]
Semantic Technology Job: Natural Language Processing Expert
by Eric Franzon Morfologica, Inc. is looking for a Natural Language Processing expert. The job description states: “Morfologica Inc. is a small business that provides consulting and engineering services in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics to academic, business and government organizations. We are a growing company with lots of opportunities […]
W3C Publishes Linked Data Platform Best Practices and Guidelines
by Eric Franzon The W3C’s Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a document outlining best practices and guidelines for implementing Linked Data Platform servers and clients. The document was edited by Cody Burleson, Base22, and Miguel Esteban Gutiérrez and Nandana Mihindukulasooriya of the Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. For those new […]