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ZitgistZitgist provides quality Linked Data products and services. Linked Data is based on open standards to interconnect any form of relevant information — on demand and in context. Zitgist's capabilities range from the consumer Web plug-in zLinks to enterprise linked data transformation and deployment. Our expertise spans from data, standards and protocols to tools, user interface design, and scalable architectures. Zitgist innovation is helping pave the way to the semantic Web. We invite you to join the community — to make real the value of global data assets.
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zLinksThe zLinks client-side service is an entry point to a vast new world of additional rich data and link-related services . . . waiting silently in the background until you need it. zLinks is made available as either a blog or CMS plug-in or browser extension. The service automatically adds a “mini-z” icon to any embedded link . When you mouse over this icon and after a brief delay — to prevent annoying and unwanted popups — the zLinks dialog presents icon-typed links to further relevant data and documents in context to that link. Here are a couple of more examples to mouse over showing the possibilities for embedded links dealing with such items as places, people, books, or music albums, among many others. Once installed, zLinks automatically ‘turbocharges’ all of your existing and new content links to tap these resources that are contextual, relevant, informative and actionable. Some of these embedded links have a lot of data (additional links) behind them, some have relatively little, depending on their degree of "linkedness." Authors of zLinks-powered content can also provide their own link annotations and gain other benefits.
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Ping the Semantic WebPingTheSemanticWeb — or PTSW as it has affectionately come to be called — is a repository for RDF resources. Once subscribed, the service is notified whenever a new RDF resource is created or updated. External users can also import the list of recently created/updated RDF documents, and various APIs are available to access the service. About 1 million resources are presently being tracked by PTSW, and it has become an authoritative source for the status and statistics of RDF, namespaces and the semantic Web. More about Ping the Semantic Web...
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DataViewerZitgist's product for viewing Linked Data is called the DataViewer. It has been designed specifically to:
1. Help users manage information overload 2. Provide speedy display with much feedback, and 3. Use a rich diversity of presentation templates appropriate to the type of data (entity) under display (such as people, places, things, organizations, events, and so on). There is an interactive online demo of the DataViewer, plus walkthroughs of screenshots and operation, various examples to run, and a listing of all available templates with the widget and display options that accompany them. The DataViewer design also abstracts the data model from its views. This enables "skinning" varied display options including standard Web pages (thumbnail shown) and mobile devices (near full size).
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Talk DiggerTalk Digger is a service for subscribers to find Web conversations and discover interesting stuff, see relationships between conversations, browse the Web by tracing conversations, and to create awareness and monitor commentary about what is happening on their own Web sites. Talk Digger also can be used to set up new social networks and can be used as a "conversation" search engine. Besides conversations, threads can also be searched by user, tag, comment or URL.
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UMBELUMBEL (Upper-level Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) is a lightweight ontology for relating Web data and datasets to one another via a standard set of about 22,000 subject concepts. It is meant to apply to all types of data on the Web from RSS and Atom feeds to tagging to microformats and topic maps to RDF and OWL (among others).
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Music OntologyThe Music Ontology is an attempt to link all the information about musical artists, albums and tracks together, from MusicBrainz to MySpace. The goal is to express all relations between musical information in order to help people find anything about music and musicians. It is based around the concept of machine readable information provided by any web site or web service on the Web.
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Bibliographic OntologyThe Bibliographic Ontology provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e., quotes, books, articles, etc) on the semantic Web. More about Bibliographic Ontology...
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Linking Open Data CommunityLinking Open Data is a community project of the W3C's Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) group. Since 2007, the project has catalyzed publishing interlinked datasets of over two billion RDF triples, interlinked by around 3 million RDF links, from high-value reference sources, including notable place, people, event, book, music, cultural, language and government entities. More about Linking Open Data Community...
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OpenCycThe Cyc Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the enrichment and utilization of the open source portions of the Cyc knowledge base — the world's largest repository of machine-readable, common-sense knowledge. The foundation works to expand these resources through software development and community initiatives that educate developers and increase awareness of the potential applications of the technology.
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YagoYago is a huge semantic knowledge base. YAGO has been completely renewed and extended in December 2007. Currently, Yago knows over 1.7 million entities (like persons, organizations, cities, etc.). It knows about 14 million facts about these entities. This Web-Interface allows users to pose questions to Yago in the form of queries.
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