by Darin Stewart | September 26, 2012 | Comments Off
A few weeks ago, Barack Obama delivered a campaign speech in Roanoke, Va. in which he handed his political opponents sound bite gold. “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Conservatives seized on this sentence as proof that the president doesn’t respect the efforts of entrepreneurs. The “We Did [...]
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Category: Innovation Open Data Semantic Web Tags: linked data, open data, open enterprise, smart disclosure
by Darin Stewart | May 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
Google is about to get a whole lot more useful. Yesterday, the search titan announced the “Knowledge Graph” a functional enhancement that attempts to provide actual information about the subject of your query rather than just a list of links. This might be helpful, but the really interesting bit is the part about the graph. [...]
Category: Knowledge Management search Semantic Web Tags: google, knowledge graph, linked data, linked open data, semantic web
by Darin Stewart | June 4, 2011 | 6 Comments
Yesterday, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! jointly announced schema.org, a new service intended to “create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages.” The idea is to provide a library of vocabularies that can be used in conjunction with the W3C HTML Microdata format to embed machine-readable data into webpages in a [...]
Category: Semantic Web Tags: html5, linked data, microdata, microformats, rdfa, schema.org, semantic web
by Darin Stewart | March 11, 2011 | 4 Comments
It is a great irony of the Semantic Web, which is predicated on the notion of explicit and unambiguous meaning, that no one can quite agree on what we mean by “semantic.” The fallback position is to simply point at the technology stack defined by W3C and say that anything taking advantage of those tools [...]
Category: Semantic Web Tags: linked data, open data, semantic web
