RE: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

> The Web of Linked
> Data shouldn't be about mass crawling (search engine style) etc...  

It has to be. How would you answer a query like "all offers for a book
written by a German author" without crawling the relevant data sets?

Georgi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Kingsley Idehen
> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 4:58 PM
> To: Juan Sequeda
> Cc: hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org; public-lod@w3.org
> Subject: Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology
> 
> Juan Sequeda wrote:
> > Does Sindice crawl this (or any other semantic web search engines)?
> Juan,
> 
> Sponger is not about Sindice crawling our proxy URIs. The Web of Linked
> Data shouldn't be about mass crawling (search engine style) etc...  Its
> really supposed to be about smarter data network traversals triggered
> by
> data access requests. Basically, make the pathway "on the fly",
> remember
> it for future reference, and know when its obsolete.
> 
> If you look at it the other way round, our Sponger has Meta Cartridges
> that will lookup Sindice (via their APIs) for specific data about a
> various entities. It won't seek a complete dump of Sindice etc.. The
> same applies to a plethora of Web 2.0 style services.
> 
> 
> We can do smart database queries on the Web by simply meshing
> fundamental database principles with the inherent sophistication of
> HTTP :-)
> 
> Kingsley
> 
> 
> >
> > Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
> > Dept. of Computer Sciences
> > The University of Texas at Austin
> > www.juansequeda.com <http://www.juansequeda.com>
> > www.semanticwebaustin.org <http://www.semanticwebaustin.org>
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW)
> > <hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org <mailto:hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear all:
> >
> >     I just found out that the Virtuoso Sponger technology is even
> more
> >     powerful than I thought.
> >
> >     Briefly: "Spongers" create rich GoodRelations (and other RDF)
> >     meta-data
> >     for existing Web pages on-the-fly. Other than traditional
> >     screen-scraping approaches, Spongers reuse public APIs and other
> >     techniques, so the data is of unprecedented degree of structure.
> >
> >     Now, this can be directly used in arbitrary queries... by simply
> using
> >     the URI of the *existing* HTML Web page in the FROM clause of a
> SPARQL
> >     query.
> >
> >     Example:
> >
> >
> >     http://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Web-Real-World-Applications-
> Industry/dp/0387485309
> >
> >     is a Web page in plain HTML offering a book. Amazon does not yet
> >     produce GoodRelations meta-data on their pages.
> >
> >     If you go to
> >
> >        http://uriburner.com/sparql
> >
> >     and paste the URI in the "Default Graph URI " field and select
> >     "Retrieve
> >     remote RDF for all missing source graphs", then a query like
> >
> >       "SELECT * WHERE {?s ?p ?o} LIMIT 50"
> >
> >     returns a fully-fledged GoodRelations description for that page -
> >     as if
> >     Amazon was already supporting GoodRelations for each of its > 4
> >     million
> >     items!
> >
> >     There are spongers for BestBuy, eBay, Zillow, and many other
> types of
> >     resources.
> >
> >     Wow!
> >
> >     Congrats to Kingsley and his team!
> >
> >     Best wishes
> >
> >     Martin Hepp
> >
> >     --
> >     --------------------------------------------------------------
> >     martin hepp
> >     e-business & web science research group
> >     universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
> >
> >     e-mail:  hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org <mailto:hepp@ebusiness-
> unibw.org>
> >     phone:   +49-(0)89-6004-4217
> >     fax:     +49-(0)89-6004-4620
> >     www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
> >             http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
> >     skype:   mfhepp
> >     twitter: mfhepp
> >
> >     Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
> >     =================================================================
> >
> >     Webcast:
> >     http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
> >
> >     Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
> >     http://www.ebusiness-
> unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey
> >
> >     Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
> >     "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
> >     http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-
> goodrelations-ontology-1535287
> >
> >     Overview article on Semantic Universe:
> >     http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-
> commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html
> >
> >     Project page:
> >     http://purl.org/goodrelations/
> >
> >     Resources for developers:
> >     http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations
> >
> >     Tutorial materials:
> >     CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on
> >     Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo!
> >     SearchMonkey
> >     http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-
> Commerce_Tutorial_IEEE_CEC%2709
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kingsley Idehen	      Weblog:
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
> President & CEO
> OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
> 
> 
>

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