Re: Ann: COLD - Coloring the Data Web

Hi Michael,

An immense breakthrough, thanks!

Tomorrow I will definitely show it to our MarCom team, I bet they'll
finally fall in love with linked data. The risk is that they start building
URIs patterns that matching the company's style guide... but I guess the
inconsistency of our URIs is an acceptable sacrifice.

Shall we call the web of colors Web 4.0?

Thanks!
Colin


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Michael Martin <
auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> On behalf of AKSW research group [1] I'm proud to announce an innovative
> approach for coloring the Data Web. The monochromacity of the Data Web
> is widely perceived to be the main obstacle for a wider deployment and
> penetration of Linked Data and Semantic Technology (cf. e.g. [2]).
>
> So far, no unified algorithm existed for coloring the Data Web. With
> http://cold.aksw.org  we developed a key base technology able to color
> URIs and IRIs (future work will focus on literals, whole triples,
> containers, reifications etc.). Features of COLD include:
>
> * globally unique URI/IRI coloring algorithm
> * cross-application color consistency
> * ensuring color fidelity
> * built in color attack prevention
> * support for vocabulary/ontology coloring
> * 24bit / 16,777,216 color support
> * integrated RGB support, extensibility for other color models
> * example implementations in five programming languages
> * small memory and code footprint
>
> We deem COLD to be the key technology for the ultimate breakthrough of
> semantic technologies. COLD is already implemented in a number of tools
> including CubeViz [3]. Please beware of brand infringement, due to color
> trademark protection (cf. [4]).
>
> Best,
>
> Michael Martin
>
> [1]http://aksw.org
> [2]http://purl.org/colors
> [3]http://aksw.org/Projects/CubeViz
> [4]http://brandcolors.net/
>
> --
> Michael Martin, M.Sc.
> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
> Research Group: http://aksw.org/
> Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/MichaelMartin
> Phone: +49 341 97-32322
>
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