http://fgiasson.com/blog Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:40:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am pleased to announce the first phase of the public release of the UMBEL Web Services by Zitgist. This first release consists of a series of user interfaces in-front of several UMBEL web services. This blog post shows and explains what these web services are about and how people will ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/20/exploding-the-domain-umbel-web-services-by-zitgist/ Fabian and I have managed to make Yago resources retrievable on the web. What that means? This means that if someone has a Yago resource URI in hand, he will be able to check on the Web to get one of the three available representations of the resource: The RDF representation of ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/17/yago-resources-now-retrievable-on-the-web/ Since Mike and I first released UMBEL in 2007, we have not stopped working on it: we have done much research, we defined its concepts and principles, we designed and created it: the ontology and the instantiation of its subject concepts, abstract concepts, semsets and named ontologies. We intensified our efforts ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/30/the-emergence-of-umbel-and-linked-data/ I am pleased to finally be able to say that Mike Bergman is the new Chief Executive Officer of Zitgist LLC. After months of discussions, hard work, planning and development, Mike became officially the new CEO and Zitgist made a giant leap ahead. The first contact The first time I started to ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/21/zitgist-got-its-orchestrator/ Never forget that networks are everywhere. In fact, I have the feeling that anything that has relations with other things can be seen as being part of a network: the so-called social networks, phone networks, DNA networks, protein networks, subject networks, web pages networks, airport networks, street networks, etc, etc, ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/11/networks-are-everywhere/ An interesting post appeared in my feed reader this morning. This post, published on Slashdot, is saying: “[...] a Newsweek piece suggests that the era of user-generated content is going to change in favor of fact-checking and more rigorous standards. [...] "User-generated sites like Wikipedia, for all the stuff they ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/08/trusting-people-on-the-web/ I recently started to follow discussions evolving around the Data Portability project. It is an emerging community of people that tries to define the principles and push technologies to encourage the “portability” of data between people and systems. Other such initiative exists, such the Linking Open Data Community (that emerged ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/20/data-referencing-data-mobility-and-the-semantic-web/ In the past month or two I got more and more interested in the Yago project. First this gave me the opportunity to find a really interesting person, the main author of Yago, Fabian Suchanek. I have been impressed by the simplicity (and creating simple things with such complex stuff ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/20/second-version-of-yago-more-facts-and-entities/ Yesterday Georgi Kobilarov asked this question reading this blog post about the DataViewer: “could you elaborate on an example in which the Zitgist Browser / DataViewer enables me (the end-user) to do something I couldn’t do by reading web documents or even do something faster than by reading web documents?” This is ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/01/why-reading-dataviewer-pages-instead-of-conventional-web-pages/ Zitgist is releasing a totally new semantic Web data viewer: the Zitgist DataViewer (on test servers). This new Web service pushes even further the semantic Web data visualization principles initiated with the Zitgist Browser. The goal of the Zitgist DataViewer visualization tool is to provide a user interface that morphs ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/30/zitgist-dataviewer/