xOperator is a tool that lets you query your social-network-friends’ information (semantic web data) using IM. You write your queries in “english” interpreted according to AIML, the AI Markup language. Kind of like the pidgin we’ve explored for jourknow.
Raphael Troncy of CWI presented a news browser that uses semantic web tools to integrate information from lots of sources (along with the entities they refer to) into a single unified news browser. It looks pretty nice; you can try it here.
Leo Sauermann talked about Gnowsis, a “semantic desktop” built and studied several years ago. It’s like the old Haystack system, aiming to give people a unified repository of all the information they work with on their desktop, with categories, annotation, etc. Unlike haystack, they made sure it was bug-free and ran a user study in [...]
Just saw a presentation on RDF123. This is a framework in two parts for exposing spreadsheets as rdf. First part is a protocol for writing an RDF file that explains how the spreadsheet should be transformed into RDF—eg, that depending on whether cells in a given “professor” column “yes” or “no”, the rdf should say [...]
Fourth of a set of industry talks at ISWC. “Data Intelligence”. Today, lots of research is inhibited because of data that cannot be made available to the research community (this has been one of my gripes for a while, so great to be hearing from MS). Big issue of course is data privacy. Goldcorp challenge. [...]
Second talk at an industry panel: York Sure left academia, went to SAP to try to use semantic web in industry. He’s discussing that “business process” stuff that seems to excite business types but that I often can’t understand. But he’s made it pretty clear. Outsourcing means part of your process isn’t owned by you, [...]
I’m at a panel of Industry Talks at the International Semantic Web Conference.
The first presenter is Mark Greaves from Vulcan (Paul Allen’s research lab), who is talking about Halo, an interface to a Semantic Wiki that they are funding (but not building). About blending Semantic web as (1) “enterprise data integration framework” and as (2) [...]