http://blog.scheir.net stngw _beta_ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:55:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Through a job announcement of STI Innsbruck I was made aware of the LarKC project. To quote the job announcement: Current Semantic Web reasoning systems do not scale to the requirements of their hottest applications, such as analyzing data from millions of mobile devices, dealing with terabytes of scientific data, and ... http://blog.scheir.net/2008/01/17/larkc/ After some silent time in the field of information retrieval in the semantic web, search in the next generation web seems to be an upcoming topic in different research communities. Recently two calls for papers have been posted. Both are CFPs from workshops. One is hosted on the European Semantic ... http://blog.scheir.net/2008/01/17/workshops-on-search-in-the-next-generation-web/ From September 24 to September 26 I was in Halle (at the river Saale) in Germany attending FGIR 2007. FGIR is part of LWA, an annual event of several interest groups of the German Computer Society. The venue was located at the computer science instate of the Martin Luther university. ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/10/05/fgir-2007/ This years edition of our (Know-Center’s) annual conference the I-Know is over and it was a success! Collocated with the I-Know there was the I-Semantics conference. There I presented our recent work on Associative Retrieval on the Semantic Desktop, which was done within the APOSDLE project.   Edit: Knud Möller wrote a ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/09/07/i-know-2007-i-semantics/ Krzysztof Janowicz (the person behind (Semantic) Similarity-Blog) is working on Sim-DL – Semantic Similarity Measurement Theory for the Description Logic ALCNR. In my eyes the notion of similarity is a good thing for search on the Semantic Web: Currently, there is a lot of work going on in the development of ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/23/sim-dl/ Markus pointed me to a nice connotation for semantic applications that found on technology created for the Semantic Web: ?Semantic as in the Semantic Web?. While we are still missing its origin (a paper?) it fits pretty well the following note on Semantic Search Engines. http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/20/semantic-as-in-the-semantic-web/ Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is interviewed on the success of Amazon. He states very nicely that they are using services at Amazon to make this large web application scale. My personal QOTD on this interview comes from Ian Davis: Yeah, I like all that. But I want it bigger and I want ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/19/amazons-werner-vogels-on-services/ DEC - Glimpse of the Future, 1994: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY[/youtube] This kinda reminds me of ... the Semantic Web ... as it is now. And if you are using FOAF check out my profile under: http://scheir.net/foaf-pscheir.rdf (watch the video and know what I mean ;) ) [Via glück auf!] http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/18/the-web-now-and-then/ GRDDL has advanced to being a Proposed Recommendation. GRDDL is a (Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages) provides a mechanism to specify that an XML document contains data that can be mapped to RDF. In addition the implementation for transforming the initial XML data RDF-XML can be specified. Thus GRDDL ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/17/grddl-is-a-proposed-recommendation/ Since July 6, 2007 Protégé3.3 is out (and not beta anymore). Besides bug fixes and other improvements two very nice features were added: Collaborative Protégé and the DataMaster plug-in. Collaborative Protégé: a new extension of the existing Protégé system that supports collaborative ontology editing. In addition to the common ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/14/protege33-final-with-neat-addons/ The SPARQL Query Language for RDF is back to the status of Candidate Recommendation. Some of you may know it already had this status on April 6, 2006. It was returned to being a Working Draft on October 4, 2006. http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/13/sparql-back-to-candidate-recommendation/ Swoogle - a search engine for semantic web documents (a.k.a. ontologies) - is now available in an improved 2007 version: The biggest change is that Swoogle?s IR index is now updated incrementally, as new or modified Semantic Web documents are processed. When Swoogle processes an RDF document, it analyzes it to ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/12/swoogle-2007/ Recently I discovered a nice survey on semantic web search engines. If you are interested in this topic (as I am) you should not miss it: ... http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/07/search-on-the-semantic-web/ In my research on search in the Semantic Web, (semantic) similarity plays a crucial role. Today I discovered a great resource for semantic similarity: (Semantic) Similarity-Blog by Krzysztof Janowicz. http://blog.scheir.net/2007/07/05/semantic-similarity-blog/ After a long series of beta releases Protégé 3.2 (final) was released on November 11! Also a pre-release of Protégé 4.0 is available together with some screenshots of the new Protégé. Besides the good news of an all new version of Protégé, there are other great news: While we are ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/11/09/protege-new-releases/ James Hendler explicitly and Tim Berners-Lee implicitly inform us about the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) formed by MIT and University of Southampton. The initiative aims at exploring web-related research issues. For a motivation on WSRI the interested reader is referred to Creating a Science of the Web ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/11/04/web-science-research-initiative-launched/ As Danny Ayers notes Chris Bizer and Richard Cyganiak yesterday announced a RDF version of DBLP, the popular computer science publication database. More info can be found on their D2R Server DBLP page. http://blog.scheir.net/2006/11/03/dblp-data-available-in-rdf-format/ Danny Ayers posted the link to The ultimate mashup -- Web services and the semantic Web, Part 1: Use and combine Web services over at IBM's developerWorks. I am allready curious about the other 5 parts of this tutorial series: In Part 6, the fun increases. At this point, you ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/30/the-ultimate-mashup-web-services-and-the-semantic-web-part-1/ Recently I read about Semantic Radar over at Frédérick Giasson's weblog. Semantic Radar is a plug-in for Firefox, notifying the user if it finds SIOC, FOAF or DOAP data referenced by the page he or she is currently viewing. When such data is detected a little icon will appear on ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/30/semantic-radar-for-firefox/ I previously blogged about a very comprehensive survey-paper on semantic annotation. Besides the survey the paper also lists seven requirements for semantic annotation systems in the context of a document centred knowledge management approach and reviews them in the light of the annotation tools surveyed. Here are the seven requirements ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/23/semantic-annotation-for-knowledge-management-contd-the-seven-requirements/ These are directions for next generation Semantic Web applications (NGSWA) summarized from Language Technologies and the Evolution of the Semantic Web (Motta and Sabou 2006a): Decoupling the process of engineering from that of exploiting the Semantic Web. NGSWA assume that they operate in an environment characterized by large scale, distributed semantic ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/20/characterizing-semantic-web-applications-contd/ This seems to be the mother of all survey papers on Semantic Annotation. I have never seen an overview on this topic being that complete: Semantic annotation for knowledge management: Requirements and a survey of the state of the art (Uren et al. 2006) Beside the detailed survey on Semantic Annotation ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/16/semantic-annotation-for-knowledge-management-requirements-and-a-survey-of-the-state-of-the-art-uren-et-al-2006/ Enrico Motta from KMI held a talk at the The Fourth Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW'06) called Characterizing Semantic Web Applications were he listed several (desired) characteristics of a (typical) Semantic Web application. I wrote him an email regarding his talk and asked if he ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/16/characterizing-semantic-web-applications/ James Hendler of Mindswap spreads the news of the paper Creating a Science of the Web he published together with Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, and Daniel J. Weitzner. In the paper they argue for a science of the web dealing with both technical and societal aspects of the web. ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/14/creating-a-science-of-the-web-berners-lee-et-al-2006/ A fellow-worker of mine pointed me to the following article: Domain Specific Searches using Conceptual Spectra by Bonino et al. (2004). What they do is interesting. They allow for searching documents by concepts using semantic annotation. Documents are annotated with concepts, these annotation links are weighted. This process has to ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/14/domain-specific-searches-using-conceptual-spectra-bonino-et-al-2004/ Daniel Kirstenpfad over at schrankmonster discovered a nice tool by Microsoft, the Windows Live Writer. It allows offline editing of posts for various blogging software. I will be testing it in the next time, actually this post is written using it. http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/14/windows-live-writer/ STNGW is online. This is the private research blog of Peter Scheir, dealing with topics related to Ontologies, the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 in the context of information retrieval and technology enhanced learning. While I am lucky enough to deal with some of the topics presented here during my work ... http://blog.scheir.net/2006/08/12/it%e2%80%99s-done/