Meshing Information and Mashing Functionality
Linked Data and Mashups rely on open standards to integrate information and furnish collaborative features, but differ on their uses and the intricacies of combining disparate data and features to build new functionality from cloud resources. Both provide emerging standards to provide content and shared applications for readers/users from existing Web resources coupled with proprietary [...]
November 24, 2009
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Michael Hiatt · 
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Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web, single-source authoring · Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Ontologies, Semantic Web
About Mashups and Linked Data
In the past few postings, I presented some of the problems in managing information for corporate products and services using legacy authoring and publishing processes combined with new Web 2.0 communication practices. Take a look at these postings to get a clear view of where I’m coming from: Shotgun Communication: Haphazard information distribution from disparate [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web · Posted in: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web
Top 5 web trends of 2009
According to ReadWriteWeb, the top 5 trends of 2009 are: Structured Data – structuring information using Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data The Real-Time Web – “a new form of communication” that creates an immediate, public body of content and “has an explicit social graph associated with it” Personalization – “an organization layer for users [...]
September 14, 2009
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Tags: augmented reality, filters, Internet of things, Linked data, mobile, personalization, Real-Time Web, recommendations, Semantic Data, Semantic Web · Posted in: Real-Time Web, Semantic Data, Semantic Web
Semantic web ontologies
Richard MacManus summarizes a new PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology report: With the Semantic Web, you don”t have to reinvent the wheel with your own ontology, because others, such as musicontology.com and DBpedia, have already created ontologies and made them available on the Web. As long as they”re public and useful, you can use those. Where your context [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: context, DBpedia, Ontologies, Semantic Web · Posted in: Ontologies, Semantic Web
Semantic data defined
Semantic data: According to Wikipedia: The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from World [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: data interchange, N-Triples, N3, ontology, OWL, RDF, RDFS, Semantic Data, Semantic Web, Turtle, XML · Posted in: Semantic Data
Data Integration and the Semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee discusses: Anybody making real decisions uses data from many sources, produced by many sorts of organizations, and we’re stymied. We tend to have to use backs of envelopes to do this and people have to put data in spreadsheets, which they painfully prepare. In a way, the Semantic Web is a bit like [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: data, data integration, database, Semantic Web, spreadsheets · Posted in: Semantic Web