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The Power of Structured Data Exposure via RDFa

I regularly check announcement from Ben Adida re. RDFa as part of a perpetual certification process for my ODS based Weblog. The most recent post from Ben contains a link to an "RDFa in the Wild" portal (in the making).

One I installed Opertaor 0.8 and then scanned a few of the pages from the RDFa portal. Operator 0.8 didn't do much for me i.e. if the RDFa didn't express RDF aligned in some form to a microformat that it understood, it simply routed it's findings to a generic "resource" category :-( Of course, it is possible to enhance this aspect of Operator (and I may get round to that some day). Anyway, I pressed on, and took one of the more interesting URIs from the RDFa page and pasted that into the OpenLink RDF Browser instead. Here are the links:

1. Semantically annotated publication database using Ajax (a page containing structured data expressed in RDF and exposed via RDFa)

2. Same Page via OpenLink RDF Browser

The RDF Browser uses the Virtuoso Sponger to extract the embedded RDF from RDFa embedded in the page.

06:41 PM | Permalink

Social-Networking & Semantic Web (update)

An update for RSS crawlers that don't have synchronization capability etc..

"Reasonable Humans" continue to struggle with the congruency of social-networking and the Semantic Web. Funnily enough, our less capable counterparts (in the reasoning department) don't have such struggles. Here is my little interaction with an IRC Bot called "Phenny" (possibly mother of the Agent Web or Web of Agents or Web 4.0):

kidehen: .w web
phenny: web n. 1: An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
phenny: web n. 2: An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
phenny: web v. 1: Construct or form a web, as if by weaving.

kidehen: .w network
phenny: network n. 1: An interconnected system of things or people
phenny: network n. 2: (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs
phenny: network v. 1: Communicate with and within a group.

kidehen: .w social
phenny: social n. 1: A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
phenny: social a. 1: Relating to human society and its members
phenny: social a. 2: Living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups.

kidehen: .w semantic
phenny: semantic a. 1: Of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning.

kidehen: .w graph
phenny: graph n. 1: A visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes
phenny: graph v. 1: Represent by means of a graph
phenny: graph v. 2: Plot upon a graph.

Note: Wikipedia's Graph definition is the one the applies to RDF :-)

To conclude, the whole Semantic Data Web vision and Open social-networking go hand-in-hand. You can't attain "Open social-networking" without appreciating the underlying core concepts (Structured Data, Graphs, and Triples). There is no way around the reality that all networks are graphs. Of course, this doesn't imply that solution users (end-users) have to master graph theory en route to network participation and exploitation. It simply implies that solution developers need some graph data model appreciation, or a graph data model aware platform, when developing social-networking solutions that seek to leverage the Web.

Funnily enough, my session with the Phenny Bot was triggered by a prior session between Chimezie Ogbuji (who also trains a Bot called "Emeka" that does SPARQL) and said Bot:

chimezie: .w tautology
phenny: tautology n. 1: (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
phenny: tautology n. 2: Useless repetition.

chimezie: .ety tautology
phenny: "1579, from L.L. tautologia 'representation of the same thing' (c.350), from Gk. tautologia, from tautologos 'repeating what has been said,' from tauto 'the same' + -logos 'saying,' related to legein 'to say' (see lecture)." - http://etymonline.com/?term=tautology

That lead me to the following sequence (preceding the initial IRC session dump in this post):

kidehen: .w conflagration
phenny: conflagration n. 1: A very intense and uncontrolled fire.

kidehen: .w imbroglio
phenny: imbroglio n. 1: An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
phenny: imbroglio n. 2: A very embarrassing misunderstanding.

kidehen: .w buzzword
phenny: buzzword n. 1: Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition.

In sense, proposing the Semantic Data Web as a solution to open social-networiing challenges, more often than not results in your "No Semantic Web here" imbroglio. In a sense, the shortest path to a buzzword fueled conflagration :-)

09:15 AM | Permalink

Social-Networking & Semantic Web

Humans continue to struggle with the congruency of social-networking and the Semantic Web. Funnily enough, our less capable counterparts (in the reasoning arena) don't have such struggles. Here is my little interaction with an IRC Bot called "Phenny" (possibly mother of Web 4.0):

kidehen: .w web
phenny: web n. 1: An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
phenny: web n. 2: An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
phenny: web v. 1: Construct or form a web, as if by weaving.

kidehen: .w network
phenny: network n. 1: An interconnected system of things or people
phenny: network n. 2: (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs
phenny: network v. 1: Communicate with and within a group.

kidehen: .w social
phenny: social n. 1: A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
phenny: social a. 1: Relating to human society and its members
phenny: social a. 2: Living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups.

kidehen: .w semantic
phenny: semantic a. 1: Of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning.

kidehen: .w graph
phenny: graph n. 1: A visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes
phenny: graph v. 1: Represent by means of a graph
phenny: graph v. 2: Plot upon a graph.

Note: Wikipedia's Graph definition is the one the applies to RDF :-)

To conclude, the whole Semantic Data Web vision and Open social-networking go hand-in-hand. You can't attain "Open social-networking" without appreciating the underlying core concepts (Structured Data, Graphs, and Triples). There is no way around the reality that all networks are graphs. Of course, this doesn't imply that solution users (end-users) have to master graph theory en route to network participation and exploitation. It simply implies that solution developers need some graph data model appreciation, or a graph data model aware platform, when developing social-networking solutions that seek to leverage the Web.

Funnily enough, my session with the Phenny Bot was triggered by a prior session between Chimezie Ogbuji (who also trains a Bot called "Emeka" that does SPARQL) and said Bot:

chimezie: .w tautology
phenny: tautology n. 1: (logic) a statement that is necessarily true
phenny: tautology n. 2: Useless repetition.

chimezie: .ety tautology
phenny: "1579, from L.L. tautologia 'representation of the same thing' (c.350), from Gk. tautologia, from tautologos 'repeating what has been said,' from tauto 'the same' + -logos 'saying,' related to legein 'to say' (see lecture)." - http://etymonline.com/?term=tautology

That lead me to the following sequence (preceding the initial IRC session dump in this post):

kidehen: .w conflagration
phenny: conflagration n. 1: A very intense and uncontrolled fire.

kidehen: .w imbroglio
phenny: imbroglio n. 1: An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
phenny: imbroglio n. 2: A very embarrassing misunderstanding.

kidehen: .w buzzword
phenny: buzzword n. 1: Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition.

In sense, proposing the Semantic Data Web as a solution to open social-networiing challenges, more often than not results in your "No Semantic Web here" imbroglio. In a sense, the shortest path to a buzzword fueled conflagration :-)

06:55 PM | Permalink

Market Leadership Discipline (MLD) & Upcoming Keynotes

There are two upcoming keynotes that I will be giving in the months of September and October in relation to the burgeoning Semantic Data Web. The events are: SABRE Conference about the Social Semantic Web and Jupiter's Semantic Web Strategies Fall Event.

The abstract of my Semantic Web Strategies keynote contains a reference to the acronym MLD but it doesn't really expose what MLD is (i.e. initial acronym source isn't clearly identified in the abstract's opening paragraph). Thus, I am attempting to fix the aforementioned anomally via this blog post :-)

Market Leadership Discipline (MLD) is defined as follows: A strategy adopted by a company for attaining leadership in a given marketplace.

MLD strategies usually take one of the following forms:

Product Innovation - common amongst most startup and perpetual startup mode companies
Customer Intimacy - common amongst large and established market leaders
Operational Excellence - common amongst companies (established or startup) that use Information Technology to enhance operations behind the deliver of products and services.

MLD is a critical component of Enterprise Agility.

01:13 PM | Permalink