Web, but filtering and indexing information to making
intelligent
enable the cross referencing of data, the so- called Semantic Web. “The Semantic Web is not a separate
Web,” says WWW inventor, Tim Berners- Lee, “but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people
to work in cooperation.” Using
linked data (data that has been published with links to other datasets) Semantic Web technology is driving how we will
AT A GLANCE
Project Title: R&Wbase
Project Objective: Provide all the Governments (both Federal, Flemish, and local municipali- ties) with a ’15 minutes’ Linked Open Data publishing platform that adheres to the Read-Write Web by taking care of the ownership, versioning, feedback, and provenance issues. As such, R&Wbase will be one of the first reference implementations of W3C’s Linked Data Platform Specification.
Project Duration and Timing: 18 months, January 2013 to June 2014
Project Funding: Flemish Government, 500K
Project Partners: EWI, Flemish Government, OKFN
Project Website
www.mmlab.be
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connections and
access and use information in the future. The opportunity for making connections is ripe and a group of iMinds researchers based at Ghent University have produced a demo entitled “Everything is Connected” that showcases how Semantic Web technology
can be interconnectedness.
Finding links “The
Everything is Connected”
presented at the 2012 Semantic Web
and Conference demo,
International (ISWC)
in
Boston, takes the principles of six degrees of separation and puts it to the test using Linked Data simply
need to
online media. Users head
to for example a place, point, www.
everythingisconnected.be, login with their Facebook account, and type in a concept,
idea or
person. Using your Facebook ‘likes’ as a starting
the programme will
establish the links between you and your chosen concept and deliver the narrative back to you in the form of a multi-media presentation.
and what makes it particularly astonishing is that there’s no frustrating ‘please wait while we prepare your data’ caveat, it’s all done in real time. “We connect to the Linking Open Data
cloud via a locally indexed DBpedia, which is the semantic version of Internet encyclopaedia
Wikipedia” explains
project leader Dr Erik Mannens. “The great thing is that we can create a story in real time. That’s very difficult because there are a trillion possibilities to follow different paths, so once we know that a certain path is not going to give us a solution, we abandon it and try something
used to prove
else. If a path exists, we always come up with
it within 10 seconds, as we
simultaneously try so many paths within milliseconds. The thing that made it go viral is that everybody has a Facebook account, everybody likes something and everybody is curious how they are connected to anything in the world.” The demo certainly taps into the Zeitgeist
of social media, which no doubt helped it win the Best Demo award at its inaugural outing at the 2012 ISWC. “Everything is Connected” is a fun way to pass the time and it
proves that the concept of
interconnectedness can be taken out of the researcher’s lab and into the real world; in addition, it also supports the huge potential for Semantic Web technology. “What we could do with this demo is, instead
of asking DBpedia, i.e., the It’s an impressive process
semantic version of Wikipedia for information, we could link this demo to any another linked dataset, such as one for medicines or molecules. So you could say, ‘Okay, what kind of medicines are related to this particular molecule or can be made with it?’ Or,
if you link it to
academic datasets, is there a way I can use it together with another molecule? What we did was taking one case, Facebook, and linked one concept to another but whatever case you have, if there is data out there you can link it. The good thing is that you don’t have to interpret the information yourself if you use a semantic format, as the computer can do this for you” This is the power of Semantic Web technology.
Linking governments As
a direct result of the success of “Everything is Connected”, the team is Insight Publishers | Projects
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