- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:52:03 -0400
- To: Frederick Giasson <fred@fgiasson.com>
- CC: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, 'Peter Ansell' <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org
Frederick Giasson wrote: > Hi Kingsley, >>> >>> >>> don't know. In a O'Reilly about Google's RDFa support, Guha says >>> that they draw and plan to draw from existing vocabularies. >>> "And we're not going to do this all by ourselves. As it is, we are >>> drawing from several sources. We're drawing from microformats. We're >>> drawing from vCard. And there are other places that you will see. >>> And there's other people who know more about their topics than we >>> could possibly know. And we'll draw on all of these things. So to >>> come back and answer your question, we hope that the scope of this >>> will be substantially more than the scope of all the particular data >>> types that work today by microformats." >>> >>> See >>> http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-adds-microformat-parsin.html >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >> All, >> >> Even if Google makes up their own vocabulary, so what? Is this whole >> game about meshing structured data? This is simply a case of meshing >> their vocabulary with other vocabularies. >> >> btw - the UMBEL framework has existed with this sort of thing in mind >> for eons. Middleware style integration isn't an ABox realm >> constrained activity, you can integrate in the TBox realm, and in >> actuality this is where the real magic will happen :-) > > Thanks for remembering this stuff. I would suggest some more reading > about these capabilities and this mindset here: about umbel > [1][2][3][4], about the ABox / TBox split in the semweb [2] > > This should gives most of the background information needed to > understand this usage of UMBEL describe by Kingsley above. Also > include all the blog posts by Kingsley that talks about the usage of > UMBEL to create their inference indexes that they (OL) apply to most > of their online demo. > > > > [1] > http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/04/exploding-dbpedias-domain-using-umbel/ > > [2] > http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/29/umbel-as-a-coherent-framework-to-support-ontology-development/ > > [3] > http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/starting-to-play-with-the-umbel-ontology/ > > [4] http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=454 > [5] http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=470 > > > > Thanks, > > > Fred > > All, We now have a live example of OWL and Linked Data playing well thanks to Google. See: http://tr.im/lsIK -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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