Comments on: Making the bridge between the Web and the Semantic Web

By: More Structure, More Terminology and (hopefully) More Clarity » AI3:::Adaptive Information

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:01:06 +0000

[...] input and output forms, including RDF and various serializations of RDF. This list includes Virtuoso Sponger, GRDDL, Babel, RDFizers, general converters, Triplr, etc. One posting in this structured Web series [...]

By: The Music Data Space at Frederick Giasson’s Weblog

The Music Data Space at Frederick Giasson’s Weblog — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:28:26 +0000

[...] fact, the Virtuoso Sponger will connect to Amazon.com via their API to get some information about that album. It will convert [...]

By: AI3:::Adaptive Information » Blog Archive » OpenLink Plugs the Gaps in the Structured Web

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:53:04 +0000

[...] critical piece in these various transformations is the new Virtuoso Sponger, formally released in version 5.0 (though portions had been in use for quite some time). Depending [...]

By: Integration of Zotero in a Semantic Web environment to find, search and browse the Web’s citations at Frederick Giasson’s Weblog

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:22:34 +0000

[...] Via the Virtuoso Sponger, PingtheSemanticWeb.com will check the incoming URL from Zotero users and will check to find citations too. If a citation is found, it will be added to its list of know citations and archive their content. [...]

By: Virtuoso Open-Source Edition version 5 released at Frederick Giasson’s Weblog

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:45:16 +0000

[...] the version 5 of the open source edition of Virtuoso. I talked about it in that blog post: “Making the bridge between the Web and the Semantic Web“. This is a sort of Swiss army knife for on-the-fly Web data conversion into [...]

By: Kingsley Idehen's Blog Data Space

Kingsley Idehen's Blog Data Space — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:01:19 +0000

RDF Browsers & RDF Data Middleware…

Frederick Giasson penned an interesting post earlier today that highlighted the …

By: dulanov

dulanov — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:15:25 +0000

Very often peoples talk about successful Web2 technologies: Ajax, Blog, Wiki and express doubts about Semantic Web. For example see the recent Stephen Downes note “Why the Semantic Web Will Fail” (http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-semantic-web-will-fail.html). I consider Semantic Web technology enough complex too, but this complex is justified.

In my postgraduate education I tried to solve the described in your note problem, may be it will be interesting for someone. I tried to solve the Stonebraker’s THALIA integration tesbed (http://www.cise.ufl.edu/project/thalia.html).

THALIA (Test Harness for the Assessment of Legacy information Integration Approaches) is a publicly available testbed and benchmark for testing and evaluating integration technologies. This Web site provides researchers and practitioners with a collection of 40 downloadable data sources representing University course catalogs from computer science departments around the world. The data in the testbed provide a rich source of syntactic and semantic heterogeneities since we believe they still pose the greatest technical challenges to the research community. In addition, this site provides a set of twelve benchmark queries as well as a scoring function for ranking the performance of an integration system.

THALIA testbed represented by 40 XML/XSLT files automatically produced from 40 education sites. I tried to solve the syntactic and semantic integration problems in its by using an education ontology and SWRL rules and represent these files as RDF store.