Archive for the ‘ Semantic Web ’ Category
Last year, a company called DWave Systems announced their quantum computer (the ‘Orion’) – another milestone on the road to practical quantum computing. Their controversial claims seem worthy in their own right but they are particularly important to the semantic web (SW) community. The significance to the SW community was that their quantum computer solved [ READ MORE ]
Semantic Overflow has been active for a couple of weeks. We now have 155 users and 53 questions. We’ve already had some very interesting questions and some excellent detailed and thoughtful responses. I thought, on Egon’s instigation, to bring together, from the site’s BI stats, some of the highlights of last week. The best loved [ READ MORE ]
www.SemanticOverflow.com is a new site based on the hugely popular StackOverflow.com, devoted to Q&A on anything related to the semantic web. The site is very new (created today) and I’m trying to get as many people to visit as I can, so please come and post your questions and together we’ll create a thriving community [ READ MORE ]
... there's plenty of ways that RDF specifically addresses the problems it seeks to address - data interchange, standards definition, KR, mashups - in a distributed web-wide way. RDBMSs address the problems that were faced by programmers at the coal face in the 60s and 70s - Efficient, Standardized, platform-independent data storage and retrieval. The imperative that created a need for RDBMSs in the 60s is not going away, so I doubt databases will be going away any time soon either. In fact they can be exposed to the world as triples without too much trouble. The problem is that developers need more than just data storage and retrieval. They need intelligent data storage and retrieval[ READ MORE ]
I thought I’d start with a lyric: That one’s my mother and That one’s my father and The one in the hat, that’s me. You could be forgiven for wondering what Ani Difranco has to do with this blog’s usual themes, but rest assured, I won’t stray too far. My theme today is the limitations [ READ MORE ]
John Mueller recently sent through a link to a series of articles on working with RDF. As well as being a useful introduction to working with RDF, they use LinqToRdf for code examples. Modeling your Data with RDF (Part 1) Understanding and Using Resource Description Framework Files (Part 2) They provide information on hosting RDF [ READ MORE ]
Kingsley Idehen has again graciously given LinqToRdf some much needed link-love. He mentioned it in a post that was primarily concerned with the issues of mapping between the ontology, relational and object domains. His assertion is that LinqtoRdf, being an offshoot of an ORM related initiative, is reversing the natural order of mappings. He believes [ READ MORE ]
The semantic web is a GOOD THING by definition – anything that enables us to create smarter software without also having to create Byzantine application software must be a step in the right direction. The problem is – many people have trouble translating the generic term “smarter” into a concrete idea of what they would [ READ MORE ]
LinqToRdf* is a full-featured LINQ** query provider for .NET written in C#. It provides developers with an intuitive way to make queries on semantic web databases. The project has been going for over a year and it’s starting to be noticed by semantic web early adopters and semantic web product vendors***. LINQ provides a standardised [ READ MORE ]
I’m very pleased to announce the release of version 0.8 of LinqToRdf. This release is significant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because it provides a preview release of RdfMetal and secondly because it is the first release containing changes contributed by someone other than yours truly. The changes in this instance being provided by [ READ MORE ]
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