Semantic Web Videos

Author: das05r Keywords: rdf linkeddata sparql semanticweb mspace faceted Added: November 11, 2009

Josh and I had a chance to speak with Alex Iskold, Founder and CEO of AdaptiveBlue and GetGlue.com. Getglue.com is a social recommendation engine, which helps you discover new books, music and movies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, says that as video on the Web continues to grow, the movie industry needs evolve from a "channels" scenario to a "random access" platform, where films can be universally searched, watched and paid for. In accomplishing this, producers need to provide much greater metadata around their content. The transformation of video onto a data-rich "semantic Web" is a key objective of the World Web Consortium, the Boston-based group Sir Tim heads.Joost Was a Trailbaizer in the Semantic WebTwo years ago, we interviewed the W3C's Chief Architect Philippe Le Garet on the implementation of the semantic Web with data and video. Philippe addresses the pioneeering work of Joost in creating rich metadata around its content. Unfortunately Joost is closing shop, according to a report on TechCrunch.I interviewed Sir last week in Washington at the Embassy of Finland at a technology symposium presented by Finland's Technology Academy Foundation.Here is a 37-minute video of Sir Tim on stage at the event with New York Times reporter Steve Lohr. My first interview with Sir Tim was about the open data initiative and the U.S. and British governments.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer www.beet.tv

Rome, FAO headquarters - Johannes Keizer and Margherita Sini lead us into the much debated semantics maze. Can the spark of intelligence be given to machines? Examples from two of FAO's projects are given: agrifeeds (www.agrifeeds.http://www.agrifeeds.org/ ) and the FAO Country Pofiles (http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/default.asp?lang=en ).

Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Everyone googles - in the U.S, about 12 billion times a month (including search engines that aren’t Google). We are mostly pleased with the results we get. How can it be that we give an automated system a couple of words and it finds reasonably relevant documents among one hundred billion or so possibilities? Will our satisfaction with these tools increase or decrease as the Web and our expectations grow? Dr. LaPaugh gives a peek “under the hood” and discuss core techniques used by search engines. These techniques range from word occurrence analysis for text documents, originating in the 1960s, to Web linking analysis, pioneered by Google’s 1998 PageRank document ranking method. Dr. LaPaugh also discusses the challenges of non-text media such as music and images and new techniques, including exploiting user behavior. Bio: Andrea LaPaugh is a Professor of Computer Science. Her research is in the development and evaluation of methods for searching and analyzing information. She is currently teaching COS 435: Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/03/foundations_and_future_of_information_searchfoundations_and_future_of_information_search.html.

http://www.berberus.com (English and French Description) Eng: Berberus is not just another aggregator: It can also be used to monitor, in real time, users' activities such as posts and comments they made. The data can be filtered and grouped by region, blog names, authors and tags, etc. No Maghrebian regional aggregator reaches as many Maghrebian Blogs as Berberus. We've developed an advanced search technology that is not offered by any other search engine. Berberus is not an ethnic aggregator nor "berberist". It is completely neutral and it is not calling for a regional militancy. Any blogger can submit his or her blog in order for it to get indexed as long as he relates to one of the 5 Maghrebian states. FR: L Objectif de Berberus est non seulement d agr ger les blogs, mais galement d offrir la possibilit de suivre quasi en temps r el l activit des intervenants tant au niveau des billets publi s que des commentaires post s. Les contenus pouvant tre crois s par pays, blogs, auteurs de billets ou de commentaires, par tags etc. A ce jour, il n existe aucun agr gateur r gional maghr bin en mesure de croiser les donn es de la blogosph re maghr bine aussi largement que Berberus. Notre agr gateur a d velopp sa propre technologie d'agr gation afin de pousser le plus loin possible le croisement des contenus. Berberus n est ni un agr gateur ethnique ni berb riste . Totalement neutre, il n a aucune vocation au militantisme r gionaliste. Tout blog, quel que soit le pays o il est h berg et quelle que soit la nationalit ou l origine ethnique de son auteur, peut y tre index d s lors que son diteur estime pouvoir l'inclure avec l'un des cinq pays du Maghreb.

The Semantic Discovery System (SDS) - Semantic Web on your DesktopTM - totally removes all the frustrating issues involved in integrating multiple spreadsheets (and Corporate databases Oracle etc) and further, provides a unique and powerful graphical user interface for easily creating advanced queries and reports across multiple spreadsheets and other disparate data sources. This is achieved through the use of Semantic Web technology with an advanced data integration engine running on your Desktop, requiring no technical expertise, yet providing a unique and powerful user experience.

How the Semantic Discovery System provides analytical and knowledge discovery capabilities way beyond conventional Business Intelligence tools, and uses the latest Semantic Web Technologies in a way that uniquely minimizes the necessity for technical programming.

This video contains basic instruction for setting up the Semantic Discovery System to connect to and query distributed data silos

The Semantic Discovery System has achieved all-important customer validations of its original design outcome. In the literal words of one of our Big Pharma customers: "Driving Flexibility, Scalability and Dynamism... Knowledge Management for your business, driven by the people in your business - without new applications or data warehouses - in fact with no programming support at all."

The Semantic Discovery System has achieved all-important customer validations of its original design outcome. In the literal words of one of our Big Pharma customers: "Driving Flexibility, Scalability and Dynamism... Knowledge Management for your business, driven by the people in your business - without new applications or data warehouses - in fact with no programming support at all."

How do new technologies that organize information show us the way to the future? Tim O'Reilly leads a discussion on the semantic web with a panel of leading thinkers.