Showing posts with label semantic web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label semantic web. Show all posts
Friday, May 07, 2010
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Polish Your SPARQL, Make It Shine
I attended my first meeting of the Washington Semantic Web MeetUp. It was the first time I had ever seen wine and cheese at a tech event. Whether this reflects the rarefied atmosphere of the semantic web or the quality of hospitality of Reiters, I don’t know. Either way, it was a delightful change from pizza and soft drinks, which are the usual fare for such occasions.
Daniel Mekonnen of Top Quandrant had already begun his presentation by the time I arrived. He said that it is helpful to think in terms of patterns in order to understand SPARQL. It is a query language related to SQL, as its name suggests. He suggested that programmers put their filters at the top of queries. He indicated that the use of optional would greatly reduce speed. He also suggested that it is better to implement SPARQL in TBC rather than Gruff.
Daniel Mekonnen of Top Quandrant had already begun his presentation by the time I arrived. He said that it is helpful to think in terms of patterns in order to understand SPARQL. It is a query language related to SQL, as its name suggests. He suggested that programmers put their filters at the top of queries. He indicated that the use of optional would greatly reduce speed. He also suggested that it is better to implement SPARQL in TBC rather than Gruff.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Attention editors, publishers, and news directors
John Cass has some excellent advice on how to use semantic technologies to identify hot stories:
My advice for John Cass: always link the word semantic, so people know what you are talking about.
One idea for the newsroom would be to use some of the social media mining tools developed for corporations to determine the stories that are of most interest to a community. The press would use monitoring tools to quickly discover stories that are developing, and what stories are most relevant and important to a community. Relevancy and importance may be measured by off page references, links and comments.
My advice for John Cass: always link the word semantic, so people know what you are talking about.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Monday, April 02, 2007
Business-oriented semantic search service
ZoomInfo Search Engine Makes Business Information Free
Disruptive is putting it mildly.
With $12 million in sales last year and some 1600 corporate clients -- including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Oracle, PepsiCo and about 100 of the Fortune 500 -- business information company ZoomInfo has decided to provide free access to most of what it had been charging for.
On Monday, ZoomInfo.com plans to offer a newly improved business-oriented semantic search service, tailored for finding information about companies and their employees, to any Internet user under an advertisement-supported model.
"We believe that this is disruptive to the business information world," said Russell Glass, VP of products and marketing for ZoomInfo.
Disruptive is putting it mildly.
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