S is for Semantics

Creativity at the edge

Robert Coyne speaks at Semantic Technology conference

Semtech 2009

Oracle's Zhe Wu presents Oracle 11G at the TopQuadrant booth

Freebase at PAWS

hi1tech comm infrastructure at EDW

Enterprise data world

The data experts are put up on a pedestal :)

A new dawn in web science

Organizing collaboration on the web is all the rage. We all know about Taxonomies and Vocabularies. But when the common folk got ahold of taxonomies, we got folksonomies (e.g., to organize tags in scrum.ptio.us). We now have collabularies to account for the lack of collaboration that happens in the folk process. But we also have Ontology to recapitulate Philately to provide a formalism of a conceptualization. With the advent of Linked Data, we have the possiblity of collaboration in our ontologies, or colontologies. But what about those vocabulary folks?

Clearly, we need a formal, collaborative, folk, conceptual, controlled, taxonomic, strucutred form of group knowledge. A Folks Collabulology. A structure that combines all the best of these things. I have prepared a brief video that explains everything you need to know about folks collabulology.

I showed my Folks Collabulology to some famous people - here is what they said:

"I was positively impressed with Folks Collabulology." - Doug Lenaut, CEO, Psych Corp.

"A new paranoia for computing!" - Kiva von Sap, web entrepreneur

"It's Specification, not formalism" - Tom Groober, inventor

"Numa, Numa" - The Numa Numa boy

SPIN Webcast

No, it isn't an elaborate April Fool's joke.  Tomorrow, TopQuadrant is sponsoring another webcast with Semantic Universe.  The topic of this one is SPIN, a Semantic Web modeling language based on SPARQL and organized like an Object Oriented model.  That actually just scratches the surface - feel free to attend the webinar (registration is free at Semantic Universe) and see demo and details. 

Generation of SPARQL Queries

We produced a webinar a couple weeks back that shows off some of the cool things we can do to help people cope with creating and managing SPARQL queries.  There were some technical difficulties on the day of the webinar itself that were disappointing, but I understand that the recording (linked here) came out well (I can't listen to it - you know how hard it is to listen to your own voice). 

I have shown in particular the query generation stuff live to a few audiences since then - most of them - well, all of them so far - have been pretty excited about it.  I find that even as an experienced SPARQLer, I use the automated generation quite a lot myself.

Review

Okay, this counts as blowing my own horn.  So be it.

A review of Working Ontologist in Panlibus Magazine.   See page 19,

SPARQL Webinar

Along with Scott Henninger of TopQuadrant, I will be presenting a webinar as part of the Semantic Universe webinar series called  SPARQL for dynamic business applications.  The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 11 at 2:00 pm EDT.   We've got some pretty fun stuff we're doing with SPARQL - I hope you enjoy it.