Semantic web

• Google’s Knowledge Graph: Nothing is new under the sun

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  By Rowan Puttergill: Columnist
  05.17.12 | 1 Comment
  

  Google has just announced the launch of Knowledge Graph, which it sees as a smarter way to search. Knowledge Graph is a way of tying together pieces of meta-data about things, such as their relationships to other things within the world. What this means is that when you search for something that is available in the Knowledge Graph, Google will display additional information about the thing that you searched for, so that you can directly access facts before having to ...

• Gatfol: Google, Yahoo! and Bing are OK, we can make them better

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  By Martin Carstens: Senior reporter
  02.20.12 | 2 Comments
  

  Search engines get you the results you want 80% of the time. That's according to a South African startup called Gatfol (pronounced Gat fole, not like the Afrikaans Gatvol) which will soon be launching its first product to help you get closer to 100%.Gatfol may seem like an odd name for a startup, but its US patented semantic search algorithm certainly isn’t. Rooted in natural language processing or NLP, the free Gatfol browser plug-in will attempt to optimise your search ...

• Is the Semantic Web just a dream?

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  By Yoav Tchelet
  06.01.10 | 5 Comments
  

  While we all continue to talk up the benefits of Web 2.0 and all that it brings, there are a number of companies and researchers working furiously on the next step in the evolution of the World Wide Web.The Semantic Web is for some just a utopian dream of what the Internet will be in the future - but for Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (the founder of the World Wide Web), this is no dream.If the web is a universal medium ...

• OpenCalais release features enhanced social tagging

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  01.23.10 | Comments Off
  

  To kick-start 2010, OpenCalais has released some significant upgrades to its award-winning semantic platform.Version 4.3 of the OpenCalais service features:enhanced Social Tags for categorization; improved disambiguation; new entities, facts and events in English; and an entirely new feature called News Names. By popular demand, the improved Tagaroo plugin for WordPress gives users more control over the tagging process. Their URL submission tool, SemanticProxy, has been normalized to ensure that its results are identical with those you would get by ...

• Open Calais joins DocumentCloud initiative

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  01.23.10 | Comments Off
  

  Thomson Reuters today announced that it has joined forces with two dozen world-leading publishers on the DocumentCloud initiative. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation with this year’s largest grant, DocumentCloud is a unique online resource that will provide public access to news reporters’ original source materials. It will debut in a beta version by the end of this year. Specifically, Thomson Reuters has agreed to contribute high-volume use of its OpenCalais service to the ...

• The meaning of it all, in XML

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  03.05.09 | 6 Comments
  

  Here's a relatively new web service for publishers and developers that's a different spin on the semantic web. Amplify is mostly a semantic web service, although it tries to differentiate itself from other semantic services by saying it focuses on understanding content rather than classifying content -- which is what the semantic web has been all about up until now. It's an interesting spin on things. As an aside, perhaps you could argue they're indulging in some semantic footwork of ...

• How to approach content in the digital age

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  11.09.08 | 4 Comments
  

  The phrase "User Generated Content" (UGC) has always been a troubled notion. At its heart it emphasises a divide between the user and the professional, with the implication that users have their place, and the professionals have theirs.Perhaps the aversion to this phrase stems from the fact that it is so simplistic. It doesn't really capture the diversity of a site's readership or community. The simple fact is: Not all readers are equal. Not all readers want to write or ...

• The semantic web for publishers and bloggers

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  07.27.08 | 28 Comments
  

  The semantic web is often referred to as the "next phase" of the world wide web. It's also sometimes referred to -- perhaps pretentiously -- as "Web 3.0". Wrapped up in this semantic web is an appearance of artificial intelligence as it involves computers "understanding" content (eg: teaching a machine that "Africa" is a continent and that "Barack Obama" is person and politician).Semantic tagging for dummies Adding semantic power to your website content essentially involves adding machine-readable metadata to your articles ...

• 10 Future Web Trends to watch

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  09.14.07 | 9 Comments
  

  It's a web 2.0 world these days. I never thought I'd use the term so frequently and freely, but it does encapsulate a new culture and way of doing things on the web. Read/Write Web -- now my favourite website -- has an excellent analysis of what it considers to be the Top 10 Web Trends of the future. Here is the list:1. Semantic Web 2. Artificial Intelligence 3. Virtual Worlds 4. Mobile 5. Attention Economy 6. Web Sites as Web Services 7. Online Video / ...

• Wikipedia: It's impossible, but works

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  By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
  07.31.07 | 2 Comments
  

  Did this interview with Intelligence Magazine on Wikipedia... If you want to see the full interview buy the magazine...Intelligence Mag: How valuable do you consider Wikipedia as a reference source?Me: I think Wikipedia is a valuable reference source, but that readers should be on guard when they use Wikipedia material. I would use Wikipedia as a starting point for gathering information on topics, and then move on to other reference sources. I would always use wikipedia in tandem ...

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