Re: Ann: COLD - Coloring the Data Web

Hi Martin,
Brilliant initiative!
So many steps forward for Linked Data over this weekend.
I have hacked sameAs.org to conform to what will clearly become a crucial standard.
However, this has exposed what may be a shortcoming.
Your colours (sic) are related to the IR; but would it not be much better if they related to the NIR?
You will see that www.sameas.org/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edinburgh illustrates the point.
(and takes rather a while to load, while it finds all the colours and renders the stuff!)
Would it not be better if COLD was "sameAs" aware?
You could query sameAs.org and find the colour of the canonical URI (the foaf:primaryTopic in the RDF), and render that colour for any of the URIs?
Or maybe offer it as an option.
I think I will go to only showing the colour for the main URI soon, as the intention is clearly to establish colour association in the user's mind.

One day we will be able to dispense with URIs altogether and just use colours!

On 2 Apr 2013, at 10:34, Michael Martin <martin@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
 wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> On 04/01/2013 10:38 PM, Ben Companjen wrote:
>> Hi Michael, 
>> 
>> There is a small bug in the Turtle representation: in e.g. my colour 
>> 
>>     <http://companjen.name/id/BC>  a   rdf:Resource ; 
>>         cold:colour loc:26bd27 . 
>> 
>>     cold:color a owl:AnnotationProperty ; 
>>         rdfs:label "color"@en ; 
>>         rdfs:domain rdf:Resource ; 
>>         rdfs:range dbpo:Colour . 
>> 
>> ... you mixed up "color" and "colour". That's all :) 
> thank you for reporting this small bug. Now it should be fixed.
>> 
>> By the way, I really like my colour! 
> Yes your color is quite good. 
> Its even more fancy than my one:
> http://cold.aksw.org/index.php?iri=http%3A%2F%2Faksw.org%2FMichaelMartin
> 
> Maybe we should open a contest about beauty WebId's :-)
> 
> All the best
> Michael
> 
>> 
>> Regards, 
>> 
>> Ben Companjen 
>> 
>> On 1-4-2013 20:37, Michael Martin 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/ 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
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> 
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