Re: Contd: UMBEL Effect re. Faceted Browsing

That's cool stuff Kingsley.  Seeing the two next to each other (with and
w/out Umbel) makes it easy to see the value that Umbel adds.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

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> One thing that should emerge from this server side faceted browser demo is
> the impact of inferencing based on UMBEL ontology.
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> Remember, UMBEL provides binding between the OpenCyc Upper Ontology and
> domain specific ontologies such as FOAF. Compare items 1&2 for an example of
> the effect of this Ontology "Meshup":
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> http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person (no UMBEL inferencing enabled)
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> http://b3s.openlinksw.com/about/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxmlns.com%2Ffoaf%2F0.1%2FPerson&sid=177 (UMBEL inferencing enabled)
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> Note the expanse of the FOAF vocabulary's graph courtesy of UMBEL linkage
> to other ontologies via  Equivalence, Subclass, and other links (what Fred
> refers to as  "domain explosion" in some of his blog posts).
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> Regards,
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> Kingsley Idehen       Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
> President&  CEO
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