Re: Re: Silk - Link Discovery Framework Version 2.4 release

It seems that we hate time passing but love creating typos:-
0.1     Initial Release of the Phyton version ...
Phyton? That would be an interesting language -:)

So looks like the team went from Python to Scala, interesting (to me in
terms of syntactic match).

Adam

On 1 June 2011 16:45, Federico M. Facca <federico.facca@create-net.org>wrote:

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> Subject: Re: Silk - Link Discovery Framework Version 2.4 release
> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:35:53 +0200
> From: Federico M. Facca <federico.facca@create-net.org>
> Organisation: CREATE-NET
> To: public-lod@w3.org
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> Dear Paola,
> I share your concerns on public money spending in EU projects.
> I am not part of LOD2 project neither fu-berlin, but looking at the page
> content, code commits and wikis of this release, I assume that
> what you scouted is a simple error. I am still writing 2010 in some
> documents too :) as matter of fact humans hate that the time is passing by!
>
> Of course this does not mean that LOD is spending money better or worst
> than other projects or whatever.
>
> Generally I have to say that I like the idea of silk and coming from
> data mining research, having gone through web industry, moved to
> semantic web research, and then back to web engineering:
> I know how much this is needed and how much hard it can be to be achieved..
>
> All the best,
> Federico
>
> http://www.assembla.com/spaces/silk/new_dashboard
>
> 2.4     Added the new Silk Workbench, a web application which guides the
> user through the process of interlinking different data sources.
> 2011-06-01
> 2.3     Improved loading perfomance: Multiple parallel SPARQL queries are
> executed, while their results are merged on the fly.
> Improved matching performance: New blocking method offers greatly
> improved performance.
> Improved overall performance: Matching tasks are now executed
> concurrently to loading data instead of waiting for the complete data
> set to be loaded.
> 2011-01-31
> 2.2     Added Silk MapReduce    2010-10-06
> 2.1     Added Silk Server
> Added a geographical distance metric by Konrad Höffner (MOLE subgroup of
> Research Group AKSW, University of Leipzig)
> Bugfixes        2010-09-15
> 2.0     Reimplementation of the Silk framework in Scala.
> Improved scalability and performance.
> Prematching replaced by a more transparent blocking.
> Configuration is checked for consistency prior to link generation.
> Support of the OAEI Alignment format.
> (Anja and Robert)       2010-07-01
> 0.2
> Added prematching of data items (Julius).
> The Silk 0.2 language specification is still available and Silk 0.2
> framework can be downloaded from GoogleCode.
>
> 2009-03-02
> 0.1     Initial Release of the Phyton version of the Silk framework
> (Julius and Chris)      2009-02-01
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> On 01/06/11 17.16, Paola Di Maio wrote:
> > Robert
> >
> > thanks  lot for the update, I look forward to be trying it out
> >
> > I see from this page
> > http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/
> >
> > that SILK V 2.4, announced on this list today was actually released
> > last year: See the snippet below
> >
> > 2010-06-01: Version 2.4 released including the new Silk Workbench, a
> > web application which guides the user through the process of
> > interlinking different data sources.
> >
> > I also seem to understand from the project page that much of LOD2
> > software are tools developed in previous years (ie, nothing new!)
> >
> > Am I reading something wrong?
> >
> > In the past decade or so, millions of euros of tax payers money have
> > been paid for projects for which the codebase had already been
> > developed, either by funded projects from prior calls( ie, for which
> > the tax payer had already paid ) or by other companies.
> >
> > In essence, as it has been already pointed out, the public has been
> > paying for the same semantic web tools to be rebranded over and over,
> > and each time it has costed lots of public money, and each time it has
> > not delivered the semantic web functionality the public is waiting for
> > (ie, a useable web based application layer)
> >
> > Since LOD2 has become a funded EU project in September 2010, I would
> > be grateful if you could explain what part of the tool/functionality
> > has been developed after September 2010, and for what part of this
> > development is the public funding being used for
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance
> >
> > PDM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Robert Isele <robertisele@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> we are happy to announce version 2.4 of the Silk - Link Discovery
> >> Framework for the Web of Data.
> >>
> >> The central idea of the Web of Data is to interlink data items using
> >> RDF links. However, in practice most data sources are not sufficiently
> >> interlinked with related data sources. The Silk Link Discovery
> >> Framework addresses this problem by providing tools to generate links
> >> between data items based on user-provided link specifications. It can
> >> be used by data publishers to generate links between datasets as well
> >> as by Linked Data consumers to augment Web data with additional RDF
> >> links.
> >>
> >> Link specifications can either be written manually or developed using
> >> the new Silk Workbench. The Silk Workbench, is a web application which
> >> guides the user through the process of interlinking different data
> >> sources. It’s being shipped with the 2.4 version of Silk.
> >> The Silk Workbench offers the following features:
> >> - It enables the user to manage different sets of data sources and
> >> linking tasks.
> >> - It offers a graphical editor which enables the user to easily create
> >> and edit link specifications.
> >> - As finding a good linking heuristics is usually an iterative
> >> process, the Silk Workbench makes it possible for the user to quickly
> >> evaluate the links which are generated by the current link
> >> specification.
> >> - It allows the user to create and edit a set of reference links used
> >> to evaluate the current link specification.
> >>
> >> The Silk Link Discovery Framework includes three applications to
> >> execute the link specifications which address different use cases:
> >> 1. Silk Single Machine is used to generate RDF links on a single
> >> machine. The datasets that should be interlinked can either reside on
> >> the same machine or on remote machines which are accessed via the
> >> SPARQL protocol. Silk Single Machine provides multithreading and
> >> caching. In addition, the performance can be further enhanced using an
> >> optional blocking feature.
> >> 2. Silk Server can be used as an identity resolution component within
> >> applications that consume Linked Data from the Web. Silk Server
> >> provides an HTTP API for matching instances from an incoming stream of
> >> RDF data while keeping track of known entities. It can be used for
> >> instance together with a Linked Data crawler to populate a local
> >> duplicate-free cache with data from the Web.
> >> 3. Silk MapReduce is used to generate RDF links between datasets using
> >> a cluster of multiple machines. Silk MapReduce is based on Hadoop and
> >> can for instance be run on Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Silk MapReduce
> >> enables Silk to scale out to very big datasets by distributing the
> >> link generation to multiple machines.
> >>
> >> More information about the Silk framework, the Silk Link Specification
> >> Language, as well as several examples that demonstrate how Silk is
> >> used to set links between different data sources in the LOD cloud is
> >> found at:
> >>
> >> http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/
> >>
> >> The Silk framework is provided under the terms of the Apache License,
> >> Version 2.0 and can be downloaded from
> >>
> >> http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/releases/
> >>
> >> The development of Silk was supported by Vulcan Inc. as part of its
> >> Project Halo (www.projecthalo.com) and by the EU FP7 project LOD2 -
> >> Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data (http://lod2.eu/, Ref. No.
> >> 257943).
> >>
> >> Thanks to  Christian Becker, Michal Murawicki and Andrea Matteini for
> >> contributing to the Silk Workbench.
> >>
> >> Happy linking,
> >>
> >> Robert Isele, Anja Jentzsch and Chris Bizer
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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