- From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:21:54 +0100
- To: Colin <colin@zebrana.net>
- CC: martin@informatik.uni-leipzig.de, SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <EMEW3|6747970c0d87f8d66a22eb956d01173dp30LNA03cjg|ecs.soton.ac.uk|5159EC62.2010>
That could be much more "powerful" if it was practical to map the colours to the ones referenced in http://tinyurl.com/br3jl42 -- think of the possibilities joining up these diverse forms of knowledge! On 01/04/2013 21:14, Colin wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 <tel:%2B49%20341%2097-32322> > > > -- Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/ You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
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