Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) did a nice lecture called “Where Does It Break? Or: Why the Semantic Web is Not Just ‘Research as Usual’” – I think that there is a lot of confusion about what the semantic web is and how complicated the entire thing is.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Semantic web’
December 1st, 2008 - 11:38 pm § in Semantic web
Google tech talk on the semantic web
This is by Professor Abraham Bernstein. It’s very interesting, it’s all about what the semantic web is in brief, but mostly about the various techniques used such as SPARQL, Querix, Ginseng, OWL DL…these are however rubbish for humans mostly. He explores how to make the semanti[...]
October 27th, 2008 - 10:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Cleaning up misconceptions
I asked around for common myths and misconceptions about the web or the Internet that people found the most annoying and gave them the chance to put them right 1) The Internet is not the same as the world-wide-web: The Internet was invented by DARPA with ARPANET in 1969 (it is a global system of [[...]
October 7th, 2008 - 8:48 pm § in Semantic web
What is semantic search?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about “semantic search”, and is also refered to as the “readwrite web”. Powerset, Cognition, Ask, Hakia, and many others are “semantic search engines”. It’s not a new concept, research has been available in acade[...]
