Re: Additional usages for Semanticweb.org

To be honest I've tried to add or modify information on dir.w3.org and
failed - the service asks for username and password bu there is no
registration. Is it always so?
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Yury Katkov




On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Eeek!
> Please, not Yet Another Directory of companies, tools, projects.
> There are already quite few of these, I think, all expecting people to
> come along and edit them.
> This one went through the list only a couple of months ago.
> http://dir.w3.org/directory/categories_list.xhtml?construct
> then for projects there is
>
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData#Research_Projects_focusing_on_Linked_Data
>
> Of course, if there is a Semantic Web solution so I only have to provide
> my data once (or even by publishing an RDF file?)... :-)
>
> Well done all resurrecting semantic web.org.
> Hugh
>
> On 16 Jan 2012, at 09:16, Stefan Decker wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think this is an excellent idea.
> > In the early days we had this with business.semanticweb.org - but it
> makes
> > a lot more sense to integrate it into the main site.
> > To give it a head start maybe a few of us (you, Michael, Markus)
> > add a number of obvious candidates.
> >
> > Best.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> One of the use cases for semanticweb.org can be collecting informations
> >> about SW companies. This can be benefitial both for the resourse, for
> the
> >> company and for end users who want to know, what companies are making
> >> business related to the Semantic Web.
> >> 1) It's good for semanticweb.org because wiki will be used more
> intencively.
> >> Some of the companies will eventually decide to post information about
> their
> >> projects.
> >> 2) It's good for companies. Some of them are too small to be in
> Wikipedia,
> >> but can experience a need in self-promotion and search engine
> optimization.
> >> Semanticweb.org rank on Alexa.com is big enough and Semantic MediaWiki
> can
> >> provide Rich snippets for popular engines so that search results will be
> >> prettier.
> >> 3) It's good for user who is interesing in semantic web technologies - a
> >> younger scientist can make a good survey of the companies, a potential
> >> customer of semanticweb solutions can have centralized entry point for
> >> search the company she needs.
> >>
> >> Presently there are some companies described on a wiki. But there is no
> >> infobox for them and the are not shown on the Main page.
> >>
> >> Sincerely yours,
> >> -----
> >> Yury Katkov
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Stefan Decker <stefan.decker@deri.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> A recent proposal we are working on is to establish a vocabulary
> editing
> >>> facility under SemanticWeb.org,
> >>> If there are suggestions for usages of SemanticWeb.org
> >>> we would look forward to hear about those!
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> Stefan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Dieter Fensel <dieter.fensel@sti2.at
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Tim,
> >>>>
> >>>> as Stefan, I think this is a great proposal of you!! I appreciate very
> >>>> much
> >>>> your kind offer in supporting
> >>>> the community in archiving the past.
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you also have some proposals in mind on how we should support the
> >>>> future
> >>>> evolvement
> >>>> of this information source?
> >>>>
> >>>> Looking forward your advice,
> >>>>
> >>>> Dieter
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> At 05:42 PM 1/13/2012, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's not an offer, I'm just saying we have one that in the past.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For any future project we'd have to understand what is needed and
> what
> >>>>> it
> >>>>> would take
> >>>>> to do, before we could offer anything.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tim
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 2012-01 -13, at 09:46, Stefan Decker wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Tim,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> this is a great offer!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Best,
> >>>>>> Stefan
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> This is indeed an important issue for the community.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> One community service that W3C has provided in the past has been to
> >>>>>>> take over the service of a domain, like daml.org, which hosts
> >>>>>>> ontologies which may be used by all kinds of people, but whose
> >>>>>>> development has stopped.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Also, we have come to agreements with some domain hosts which
> >>>>>>> have sem web ontologies that if they wrap up the project or the
> >>>>>>> organization
> >>>>>>> we will take over the domain in the future.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> W3C itself has a persistence policy which commits that we will do
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>> same
> >>>>>>> with another public interest hosting organization should we ever
> >>>>>>> wrap up W3C.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I could ask folks whether we could do this for *.semanticweb.org
> >>>>>>> domains
> >>>>>>> which are no longer being modified.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Tim
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 2012-01 -13, at 04:04, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> This is only weakly related to this wiki site discussion but
> >>>>>>>>> should
> >>>>>>>>> be easy to solve anyway. Short answers:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> * Subdomains of semanticweb.org are managed independently and
> >>>>>>>>> (mainly) on different servers run by different people. The
> >>>>>>>>> responsibility is
> >>>>>>>>> with the people who asked for the subdomain. Stefan Decker is
> >>>>>>>>> managing the
> >>>>>>>>> domain registration and should know who is responsible in cases
> >>>>>>>>> where it is
> >>>>>>>>> not clear from the web page.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Exactly.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> * Content of earlier versions of semanticweb.org has not been
> >>>>>>>>> migrated in the last relaunch of the site a few years ago. As
> long
> >>>>>>>>> as it is
> >>>>>>>>> just static HTML content that does not conflict with new content
> >>>>>>>>> (i.e., if
> >>>>>>>>> there is nothing else under that URL now), it would be possible
> to
> >>>>>>>>> put it
> >>>>>>>>> back into its place. To do this, please send me an email with the
> >>>>>>>>> archived
> >>>>>>>>> HTML content and let me know where to put it. I do not have
> access
> >>>>>>>>> to any
> >>>>>>>>> old versions of the site, so I cannot help in finding the old
> >>>>>>>>> content.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How did that happen?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Maybe we should also have a look at
> >>>>>>>> http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Special:PopularPages to figure what
> is
> >>>>>>>> relevant
> >>>>>>>> or not (modulo person-pages and long tail). Happy to invest some
> >>>>>>>> time
> >>>>>>>> content-wise ...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>>>       Michael
> >>>>>>>> -[...]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Professor Stefan Decker
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Director, Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Professor of Digital Enterprise
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> National University of Ireland, Galway. Ireland.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Tel: +353.91.495011
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> E-mail: stefan.decker@deri.org
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Web: http://www.deri.ie
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Personal: http://www.stefandecker.org
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Dieter Fensel
> >>>> Director STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
> >>>> http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/
> >>>> phone: +43-512-507-6488/5, fax: +43-512-507-9872
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Professor Stefan Decker
> >>>
> >>> Director, Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
> >>>
> >>> Professor of Digital Enterprise
> >>>
> >>> National University of Ireland, Galway. Ireland.
> >>>
> >>> Tel: +353.91.495011
> >>>
> >>> E-mail: stefan.decker@deri.org
> >>>
> >>> Web: http://www.deri.ie
> >>>
> >>> Personal: http://www.stefandecker.org
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Professor Stefan Decker
> >
> > Director, Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
> >
> > Professor of Digital Enterprise
> >
> > National University of Ireland, Galway. Ireland.
> >
> > Tel: +353.91.495011
> >
> > E-mail: stefan.decker@deri.org
> >
> > Web: http://www.deri.ie
> >
> > Personal: http://www.stefandecker.org
> >
>
> --
> Hugh Glaser,
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