“Bella was such a Mary Sue!” my teenager said in disgust after she got home from seeing the movie Twilight.
“Mary Sue?”
“Yeah, you know, she was like this little too perfect girl. Talk about epic fail!” she replied heading upstairs. “I promised my cosplay group I’d IM them when I got back and talk more about it.”
TopQuadrant will host the second of a three-part Webinar series on building Dynamic Business Applications with SPARQL and other Semantic Web technologies on Wednesday, April 1 at 2pm ET. The session will spotlight SPIN, a light-weight extension of SPARQL. SPIN allows developers to build Semantic Web models that use SPARQL to define efficient business rules and constraint checks for data validation that will work with any RDF database.
It’s tough times out there for little companies swimming in big markets, and unlike some pundits, I don’t pretend that the Semantic Web has already “made it” as a quantifiable software market. In the Semantic Web for Dummies book, I’ve tried to offer a lot of practical advice about which uses of the Semantic Web are making people’s lives easier today.
The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group at the W3C published the Pointer Methods in RDF as a First Public Working Draft. This document provides a framework for representing pointers to identify locations in content or portions of content, RDF.
O’Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/), the current name for the geek publishing giant founded by Tim O’Reilly, has finally joined the Semantic Web. O’Reilly’s coining of the term “Web 2.0″ and early misunderstandings of the Semantic Web stack lead some to think that he didn’t see much value in machine readable information. That seems to have changed, at least in within <a href=”http://labs.oreilly.com/“>O’Reilly Labs</a>.
DERI has announced VisiNav, a data search and navigation tool for searching and navigating web data.
Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of semantic technology based information management products, today announced that ontologies and knowledgebases developed in knoodl can be accessed as SPARQL end points. (www.knoodl.com)