Category Archives: online search

Semantic Web: Video Interviews

Posted on November 15, 2010 by admin

A story about the Semantic Web:

Posted in browser, linked data, online search, online video, semantic web, Uncategorized, video, web evolution | Tagged Abraham Bernstein, Alon Halevy, Alon Y. Halevy, British people, Chris Dixon, Clay Shirky, Computing, David Karger, David Weinberger, Entertainment/Culture, Jason Shellen, John Hebeler, Kate Ray, Lee Feigenbaum, New encyclopedism, Nova Spivack, NYU, semantic web, semantic web service, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Search Engine, web searches, Weinberger, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium | Leave a comment

Semantic Browsing of Video using Ontologies

Posted on November 11, 2010 by admin

Semantic browsing View more documents from Andrea Ferracani. Interesting presentation of a web-based tool for a semantic browsing of video collections, useful for media sharing networks like YouTube, Flickr and twitter…

Posted in browser, online search, online tools, online video, semantic web, social media, video, web evolution | Tagged Andrea Ferracani, collective intelligence, Giuseppe Serra, Information, Information science, Internet application, Knowledge engineering, Knowledge representation, Marco Bertini, Marco Meoni, media sharing networks, Microformat, Ontology, PDF, semantic web, Social Media Ventures Inc, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, web evolution, Web-based semantic browsing, web-based tool, World Wide Web, YouTube Inc | 1 Comment

Microformats for News Articles: the hNews Standard

Posted on November 23, 2009 by admin

A new microformat for online news has been developed by the Media standards Trust and the Web Science Reaseach Initiative: it’s called hNews. The goal is to make relevant elements of news articles machine-readable, and at the same time, to … Continue reading →

Posted in data portability, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, social networking, web access, web evolution | Tagged HNews, Index term, Information retrieval, Knowledge representation, Metadata, Microformat, online news, Semantic HTML, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Web Science Reaseach Initiative | 3 Comments

Open Access Week for Web Resources

Posted on October 19, 2009 by admin

The first International Open Access Week is scheduled to take place October 19-23; it is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research. This includes access policies from all types of research funders, within the international … Continue reading →

Posted in network neutrality, online collaboration, online search, online tools, open, web access, web evolution | Tagged Academia, Academic publishing, Access, Education, Open access, Open Access movement, Public Knowledge Project, Public Library of Science, Publishing, Scholarly Publiching & Academic Resource Coalition, Technology/Internet, the Public Library of Science, web access | 1 Comment

Semantic Data: Twine and its Successor T2

Posted on October 9, 2009 by admin

Hopefully by the end of the year, the semantic search technology of Twine will make a further step into the construction of structured data on the Web, and its successor T2 will be released. From an interview with Nova Spivack … Continue reading →

Posted in collective intelligence, community, linked data, online collaboration, online search, search engine, semantic web, social networking, web evolution | Tagged dozen search results, Nova Spivack, Radar Networks, RDF, RDFa, Semantic search, semantic search technology, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Twine, Web standards, World Wide Web | Leave a comment

Semantic Web: Some Key Points

Posted on September 1, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: Fotos by Dee The Semantic Web is primarily an infrastructure technology that will bring new informations to the Web, helping to link sites to each other & to create more information that can be somehow “understood” by the … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, web evolution | Tagged Calais, Freebase, linked data, RDFa, Semantic search, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Twine | 2 Comments

SemTech 09: Semantic Search Key Points in Hakia Philosophy

Posted on July 9, 2009 by admin

The annual Semantic Technology conference (held in San Josè, California) presented all the major players in the field: Ask, Bing, Google, Hakia, TrueKnowledge, and Yahoo!. One of the main issues debated was regarding Semantic Search. In the presentation held by … Continue reading →

Posted in linked data, online search, search engine, semantic web, web evolution | Tagged Academia, capitalized Fisher, Education, Grammar, Hakia, Information retrieval, Science, search engine, search engines, Semantic search, Semantic technology, semantic web, semantics, Social philosophy, statistical algorithms, Technology/Internet, uncapitalized fisher, Web Search Engine | 2 Comments

Real-Time Web: Filtering the Streams of Data

Posted on June 3, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: armangi What does “real-time web” actually mean? Basically, getting all the informations you’re looking for at the very moment they’re are produced, from your sources of choice. It’s definetely some kind of new wave of evolution in the … Continue reading →

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Facebook Application for Choosing Your Creative Commons License

Posted on May 19, 2009 by admin

A new application for social network Facebook has been developed by Creative Commons for letting Facebook users choose how they would like their content on their profile pages to be shared. This is done by creating a badge through a … Continue reading →

Posted in creative commons, creativity, online search, online tools, search engine, social media, social networking, writing | Tagged Computer law, Copyleft licensing, creative commons, Facebook, Facebook Inc, Flickr, Fred Benenson, license different media, Social information processing, social network, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, World Wide Web | 3 Comments

Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine – First Official Demo

Posted on April 30, 2009 by admin

Two days ago Stephen Wolfram gave an early preview of his “computational knowledge engine” Wolfram Alpha at a talk at Harvard University. The video of the whole presentation (1h 45min long) is here above, while down below you can find … Continue reading →

Posted in collective intelligence, creativity, online search, online tools, online video, search engine, semantic web, web evolution | Tagged A New Kind of Science, Algorithm, Alpha, Boston, data visualization services, Digital physics, Europe, France, gross domestic product, Harvard University, Internet users, Kurt Godel, Logic, Mathematica, Mathematical software, Mathematics, online analytical tools, Science, search engines, search-and-retrieve model, Stephen Wolfram, Technology/Internet, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Alpha Blog Berkman Center for Internet, Wolfram Research | 3 Comments

Linked Data & the BBC Music Platform Relaunch

Posted on April 14, 2009 by admin

The new BBC web platform for music is online, offering some kind of mash-up presentations of the artists that make use of semantic resources. The main source for retrieving and mashing the informations (together with sites like Wikipedia and MySpace) … Continue reading →

Posted in art, community, creative commons, data portability, linked data, online collaboration, online music, online search, online video, semantic web, social media | Tagged Acoustic fingerprinting, Andreas Blumauer, BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, creative commons, Data, data portability, Entertainment/Culture, Findability, Information, Knowledge representation, Library 2.0, linked data, media, Metadata, music, MusicBrainz, MySpace Inc., public domain, RDF, Science, semantic web, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Usability, web platform, XML | 7 Comments

Computational Knowledge Engine: Wolfram Alpha

Posted on March 17, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: Wolfram Research The latest project by Stephen Wolfram is defined as the first “computational knowledge engine”, something capable of answering factual question for you. The Wolfram engine is described as “a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, … Continue reading →

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Open Platform for Free Content Launched by the Guardian

Posted on March 10, 2009 by admin

The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called “Open Platform“, which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper. The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web: a Video Presentation in 5 Minutes

Posted on March 4, 2009 by admin

Here’s an excellent, concise presentation by Tom Llube explaining the Semantic Web at the Davos economic forum. Transcription below: A revolution is happening in the structure of the web itself. It’s gentle and it’s powerful, it’s like tai-chi: you hardly … Continue reading →

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Discovery Search Engine For Browsers: Juice

Posted on February 9, 2009 by admin

Juice is a plug-in for Firefox browsers, which lets you grab text, image or video, providing you with context-relevant information, aiming to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services. You … Continue reading →