Tag: semweb

Great Database in the Sky

He characterized Google as giving unstructured people access to unstructured data whereas MySQL gives structured people access to structured data, meaning that MySQL is targeted towards developers who understand how to structure data “properly”. A strange polarization in my view, but I guess he’s trying to put clear blue water between the Google approach and the traditional database approach. At Talis, we don’t see this distinction at all and our core platform technology, Bigfoot, unifies structured and unstructured data.He went on to describe his vision of a skype for database access, combining my data, your data and public data into the next generation OLAP, running a trillion transactions per day. An example could be weather data and he asked what if you could run a SQL statement across all the data sources in the world, something like SELECT CurrentWindDirection, CurrentWindSpeed FROM AllTheWorldsWeatherStations, MyOwnWeatherStation, MyFriendsWeatherStation.

mysql to promote the data web, seems a bit unaware of semweb tech though, but one can hope

consumotronic

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Headmap

these days i am enjoying headmap. i would give it a SL of 1.5

The space, the social network, thinking tools and the network interface in the same field of view. The boundaries between what is interior and what is exterior intersecting tangibly in front of your eyes.

there are notes in boxes that are empty

every room has an accessible history

every place has emotional attachments you can open and save

you can search for sadness in new york

people within 1 km of each other who have never met stop what they are doing and organise spontaneously to help with some task or other.

in a strange town you knock on the door of someone you don’t know and they give you sandwiches.

paths compete to offer themselves to you

life flows into inanimate objects

the trees hum advertising jingles

everything in the world, animate and inanimate, abstract and concrete, has thoughts attached

Chrysalis

I am very happy to announce that I have accepted a 2-years research position at the MIT Libraries. This means that I will be moving to Boston in a few weeks. I will be involved with the SIMILE project, the goal is to show that the semantic web can work.

this is excellent news for stefano and for all things cocoon in the boston area. or, as sam put it:

I’m reminded of Niobi’s line from Matrix Revolutions: “I don’t believe in the one. I believe in him”. SIMILE is now officially a project to watch.

harpers facelift

congrats paul for a job well done! when we met last saturday, paul left before midnight, mentioning that he had “work to do.” now you know why 🙂

Harper’s is built upon a Semantic Web framework – albeit a primitive one. I’ve written about what the Semantic Web is, and why it matters before, if you’re curious, so I won’t rehash that here. Using this framework, Harper’s is divided into 2 parts: narrative content, like the Features and the Weekly Review, and a taxonomy (or ontology, depending on your preferred term), called Connections.

From XSD to RDFS

i got the mindmanager x5 schemas:

meanwhile, the RDF schema for FOAF. now, to find ways to map between XSD and RDFS here are normalization rules as a start.

XSD Component RDFS Resource Properties
Element declaration R->type definition N->element name
complex type definition rdfs:Class (root) rdfs:SubClassOf ->type definition
complex type definition N->complex type name or ->type definition + “_class”
attribute declaration rdfs:Class R->type definition N->attribute name
Attribute group definition model group definition rdfs:Property Class: N->group name + “_class” Property: N->group name R->group (class)
wildcard rdfs:Class + rdfs:Property (definition) N->attribute wildcard + “_value” R->rdfs:Literal
simple type definition rdfs:Property (any)
rdfs:Literal
rdfs:Class (list)

why is this useful? how would you like to edit RDF data (FOAF’?) in mindmanager?

Semantic web mindmanager?

Here are some questions I got from Michael Scherotter, development manager for mindmanager x5 Pro about the future direction of the product. They are looking at innovative uses of mindmanager, and how to leverage XML. I suggested that Mindmanager might be a tool to help build the semantic web. But read Michael’s questions, and opine away.

  • What kind of tool and services built on MindManager X5 Pro would you like to see developed for the semantic web?
  • Do you see MindManager X5 Pro as a tool for building the semantic web, visualizing it, or both?
  • What software, systems, and companies use OPML?

Some comments by the trackback-challenged ben. Are you hinting at a buyout? 🙂