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InterOntology08 - Interdiciplinary Ontology Forum in Japan

This conference was held at the Keio University in Tokyo. Prof. Hideaki Takeda gave his invited talk titled “Ontology for People — Vagueness and multiplicity”. He talked about how conceptualizations are naturally vague and essentially lead to multiple concept definitions depending on the user’s perspective. He introduced my work, StYLiD, as a system to consider with such vagueness and multiplicity

Freebase Wikipedia Extraction WEX

It is interesting that Freebase is making Wikipedia data available in machine readable XML form and promise to keep it updated. I hope it will be useful.

microsearch « Tripletalk

This is an interesting work to utilize microformats and RDFa. Besides visualizing the embedded metadata it would be useful to offer structured forms to search arbitrary metadata formats. I am also using RDFa for my ongoing work, StYLiD. Hope I can microsearch data in my system with this. I am also looking forward to social software tools being available for anyone to author embedded metadata easily.

Welcome to Linked Data Planet

This seems to be a significant conference, all about the Linked Data web.

Calais - Overview

This new service is based on ClearForest text-analytics solutions. It helps to extract significant phrases from any unstructured text (web documents or office documents). It automatically annotates web content with rich metadata. Any unstructured text can be transformed into an RDF-graph on the fly. Let’s check it out to see how effective it is.

OneBigWeb » Blog Archive » On the Evolution of Folksonomies and Folkschemas

“Folkschemas”, nice word. I guess this is something I am trying to do with StYLiD (Structure Your own Linked Data).