Posts Tagged linked data
August 4, 2011 at 1:43 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged aid transparency, linked data, Semantic web
Just came back from the Aid Transparency Barcamp, Kathmandu. I had a talk on Linked data and Semantic Web Technologies for Aid Transparency. It was a mixed group of audience, with both developers and non-technical people. I guess that the presentation was a bit too much for the non-technical side (sorry for that :-P).
There are many things in the slides, so sharing them here for everyone’s reference. The developers may play with the tools and datasets. Perhaps someone could use Tim’s linked data and demonstrate some interesting app. (Thanks Tim ;-))
Some major questions/concerns from the audience –
* This seems too technical, does the user need to understand all this? (No)
* What will the user see as linked data, web pages? or something different? (ya basically web pages, but driven by data from different linked sources)
But most importantly,
* What problem does linked data address? (Thanks Simon for helping me answer this .. you can put complex queries which need data from across various sources, further you can reuse/link to existing data and similarly others can reuse/link to your data)
Towards the end Simon pointed out that we still need small concrete example applications (in aid transparency) to really convince people (at different levels) to provide (linked) open data, not just demos or visualizations. Agree.
Perhaps the developers/industry can build something really useful for some stakeholder to prove the potential of linked open data.
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July 3, 2008 at 8:50 am · Filed under linked data ·Tagged linked data
ShoppingList – MediaWiki
The Linked Data community is really gaining high momentum with effective campaigns. The campaigns seem to be increasing aggressively now with a wish list for possible Linked Data sources.
List on this page sites/datasets that you want to see published as Linked Data. This list may form the basis for some campaign/action to encourage these data publishers to embrace Linked Data.
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June 21, 2008 at 11:19 am · Filed under linked data, Semantic web ·Tagged linked data
I am just back from the Linked Data Planet. Flying all the way from Tokyo, New York seemed to be as far as another planet for me. It was a great opportunity to be in that planet, thanks to the Semantic Web Company for providing me this opportunity by selecting me in the Linked Data Vision competition. I had the honor of meeting Andreas Blumauer, CEO of the Semantic Web Company and having a talk with him. He also talked about StYLiD and offered me some good suggestions.
The Linked Data Planet was really the place to be for the Semantic Web people that time. I had the opportunity to listen to great keynote speakers including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen, Ian Davis, Atanas Kiryakov and Anant Jhingran. I also had an opportunity to talk to Michael Bergman, CEO of Zitgist. I am a frequent reader of his AI3 blog. I also talked with people from Calais and watched a demo from TopQuadrant. Other exhibitors included OpenLink Software, Inc., Franz Inc. (AllegroGraph), Ontotext Lab and others. It seems that interest is growing in the business community about the Semantic Web and Linked Data.
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May 21, 2008 at 12:36 pm · Filed under linked data, My Projects, Semantic web, social web, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 ·Tagged award, competition, linked data, Semantic web, StYLiD
The Semantic Puzzle | And the winner is: The vision of a future where ordinary people publish structured data
Good news 🙂 The vision of StYLiD was selected as the winner in the Linked Data Vision competition organized by the Semantic Web company for the Linked Data Planet conference and expo. The announcement is online with nice appraisal.
I am thankful to the people who appreciated my thoughts and offered me such an honor. I hope this will really help in bringing my ideas to light, making the StYLiD application widely used by people for their own benefit and joining the global efforts to realize the Giant Global Graph.
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May 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm · Filed under Collaboration, Information sharing, linked data, My Projects, ontology evolution, RDFa, Semantic web, social semantic web, social software, social web, structured web, Web 2.0 ·Tagged Collaboration, concept consolidation, Information sharing, linked data, RDFa, social semantic web, Structured data
StYLiD: Social Information Sharing with Free Creation of Structured Linked Data
I presented this paper about StYLiD in the Social Web and Knowledge Management Workshop (SWKM 2008), April 22nd, co-located at the 17th World Wide Web Conference WWW2008, Beijing, China. It was a half-day workshop with only 6 selected papers. The session was interesting and very relevant to my area of research. This was my first time to attend the WWW conference. Quite an honor to be in such a great conference 😉
Here is my paper and here are my slides.
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April 6, 2008 at 2:36 am · Filed under Information sharing, linked data, My Projects, RDFa, Semantic web, social semantic web, social software, social web, structured web, Web 2.0, web 3.0 ·Tagged Collaboration, concept consolidation, Information sharing, linked data, RDFa, social semantic web, Structured data
I just came back from Seattle, USA after doing a poster presentation of StYLiD (Structure Your own Linked Data) in the second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008). Seattle is a great place to be 😉
You may download the poster here. This is the poster paper. The system is online. You may register your account for free and start using it!
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