Blogs

http://semanticweb.com/music-and-linked-data_b19939

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We often report on applications of linked data in government, health care, commerce, and the financial sector. But linked data has permeated much further than that. In a recent article, David De Roure of Nature.com writes about linked data and music. [...]

http://www.slideshare.net/RSLN/opendata-datagovuk-how-did-we-do-it

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110513204526.htm

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http://www.socrata.com/datagov/new-data-gov-platform-video-overview/

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Discover the new cloud-based Data.Gov platform in this 10-minute video tour.

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http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/may/17/mapping-us-recovery-step-ste...

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/05/build-semantic-web-search-tool.php

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This week the Semantic Web company Sindice released SIREn, a new semantic search plugin for Apache Lucene built on top of Apache Solr.

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2011/05/09/newscolumn1-Governments-c...

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In short, we have a classic chicken and egg problem. There is no benefit to encoding data with tags that no one can search for, or to upgrade applications to search for tags that don’t exist. A few site owners have already taken the plunge, but the progress has been slow and erratic. So the ultimate success of the Semantic Web remains in doubt.

http://blog.larkc.eu/?p=2141

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LarKC researchers at OntoText produced an informative table showing the amount of additional triples that can be inferred from some of the most popular datasets on the Web. It’s interesting to see how the datasets differ in their semantic richness, with their ratio of explicit triples vs. inferred triples ranging from close to zero (CIA Factbook) to a 16-fold increase (for DBPedia).

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http://www.beet.tv/2011/05/the-semantic-web-is-coming-to-newsrooms-this-...

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An industry initiative, lead by The New York Times, the AP and Getty Images, to surface deep data around news content including video, will be introduced in the Hearst newsroom this summer.

This will be an initial phase, say Michael Dunn, CTO of Hearst Interactive in this interview with Beet.TV

The implementation comes with finalization of standards by the IPTC. These standards involve the customization of the W3C's RDFa.