InterviewsNew Tool Fosters Modern-Day 'Assembly Line' for Semantic Web App Development
Fortunata is a new tool that aims to help developers and graphic designers that aren’t well-versed in semantic web technologies create Internet applications that use and generate semantic data. The idea behind the tool, which is the product of work by researchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Ontology Engineering Group, based at the Facultad de Informática, in partnership with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid's Department of Informatics Engineering, is that compartmentalization of tasks eases processes. So, it breaks development tasks into specific chunks – the web designer first creates semantic templates, capable of rendering semantic data (data presentation templates) or gathering data from the user (data capture templates) that will then be converted into semantic data. Then the developer, regardless of a lack of background in relevant programming languages or semantic web technologies, uses these templates to create the web applications. Think of it as fostering a modern-day assembly line for creating semantic web apps. That sounds promising for boosting the development of interoperable applications that will help the web of data cycle forward. So, The Semantic Web Blog asked Oscar Corcho and Mariano Rico, of the UPM's Ontology Engineering Group at the Facultad de Informática, to provide us with more details about their project. The Pervasive Semantic Web: Every Industry Can Benefit, Says Leader of New Sem Web Consortium
We wrote last week about a new organization, the Semantic Valley Consortium, that is hoping to get more businesses to take advantage of the Semantic Web. Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli at the University of California at Berkeley, a leading light of the Consortium, tells us a little more about the new organization. Q: What spurred the creation of the Semantic Valley Consortium -- and how did you gain the support of some big name technology players. What do they see as their ROI for participating and is there a requirement to/cost of membership? A: There are several considerations that spurred the creation of the Semantic Valley concept: Knowledge Quest: The Facts From True Knowledge's CEOThe quest for knowledge never ends. That’s a good thing for the Q&A AI platform True Knowledge. The Semantic Web Blog recently had an opportunity to catch up with its founder and CEO William Tunstall-Pedoe to discuss the semantic-powered platform he’s been developing for the past couple of years. Publishers Take Seat at Metadata Table With GiantChair
The middleman bookstore, real-world and virtual, is still kicking, but, asks Joseph Esposito, CEO of GiantChair, “with electronic books do you need all that?” And if publishers don’t need all that – or at least if they don’t any longer need to see that as their exclusive portal to sales – how do they get visitors to their sites to build a direct relationship with readers? One answer: Have good metadata, get more search engine traffic, sell more books. Mark Johnson Talks About Semantics and BIng
Cognition Technology's Scott Jarus Announces Integration with Bing
I spoke with Scott Jarus, CEO of Cognition Technologies, a company that has developed a semantic index of the entire English language. The development process took 25 years and over 350 person-years to complets, and now provides an enhanced search function that uses natural language (NLP) to allow users to query data sources using normal English questions. In addition, Scott announced that portions of Cognition Technologys' capabilities are being integrated with Microsoft's Bing, an already robust search facility. Listen to the interview with Scott to know more about how Cognition Technology's capabilities are delivering ROI to the legal and biotech industries.
Brandon Claisse of Mojiva, at Web3.0 Conference
Brandon talks about the current and future prospects for mobile advertising and how semantic tech fits in with connecting the publishers and advertisers with the end user. Watch the interview to see how Brandon sees where all the groups can benefit from this combination of technologies.
Web3.0 Interview with Tom Gruber - Siri.com
Watch the interview to see Tom's explanation of how these components leverage semantics.
Semantics in Social Media - John Breslin of DERI Explains
John discusses these topics in this interview: - The release of Drupal 7, which contains facilities for including semantic tags automatically. - The expanding use of SIOC in making data used in any one social network structure available for use in others. - How efforts to expand the usefulness of microblogging platforms like Twitter can benefit from semantics.
Web3.0 Interview with Scott Brinker - Ion Interactive
Watch the interview for Scott's full take on how things are slowly evolving, and where ROI is starting to emerge.
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